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Abstract: In order to examine the response of a coastal ocean to atmospheric forcing, successive integrations of 2-D atmospheric and oceanic models are performed. The atmospheric model has a prescribed sea surface temperature that is independent of time and a prescribed, time-dependent land surface temperature. The oceanic model is forced by the wind obtained from the atmospheric model. In the case of constant sea surface temperature, the wind stress distribution is fairly constant in the cross-shore direction except in the vicinity of the coastline. With a sea surface temperature distribution corresponding to a well-developed upwelling situation, the atmosphere model develops a wind stress distribution with a pronounced decrease in a 40 km band next to the coast. The model ocean, forced with the wind stress obtained from the atmospheric run with homogeneous sea surface temperature, develops a strong upwelling zone and a strong equatorward current with an embedded jet near the coast. Forced with the wind stress from the atmospheric run with inhomogeneous sea surface temperature, the ocean run has a much weaker upwelling and a double structured alongshore current with poleward flow in the vicinity of the coastline and equatorward flow in the region away from the coast.