Abstract Using a simple damped slab model, it was possible to show that a local wind
induced 88%(15 of 17) of the near-inertial oscillations (NIO) observed in the mixed layer
near the east coast of Korea from 1999 to 2004. The model, however, overestimated the
energy level in about two-thirds of the simulated cases, because the slab model was forced
with winds whose characteristic period was shorter than the damping time scale of the
model at 1.5 d. At the observation site, due to typhoons and orographic effects, high- ...