Erratum to: A note on stokes production of turbulence kinetic energy in the oceanic mixed layer: observations in the Baltic Sea

Erratum to: Ocean Dynamics

DOI 10.1007/s10236-009-0257-7

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake.

The first sentence of the first paragraph under “4. The results” section on page 177 of the article should read:

Figure 3 shows the time series of the wind stress components τ _x , τ _y , friction velocity u_*, the surface Stokes drift speed $\left| {{{\vec{U}}_S}} \right|$, $\overline {{\eta^2}}$ and the Langmuir number La defined as $La = {\left[ {\frac{{\left( {\vec{\tau }/\rho } \right) \cdot {{\vec{U}}_S}}}{{u_*^3}}} \right]^{1/3}} = {\left[ {\frac{{u_*^2\left| {{{\vec{U}}_S}} \right|}}{{u_*^3}}} \right]^{1/3}} = {\left[ {\frac{{\left| {{{\vec{U}}_S}} \right|}}{{{u_*}}}} \right]^{1/3}}$since $\vec{\tau }$ and ${\vec{U}_S}$ are in the same direction. Note that this is a better way to define La than is the current practice since the larger the Langmuir number, the larger the Stokes production of TKE.