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1Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
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We present some explicit solutions (given in Eulerian coordinates) to the three-dimensional nonlinear water wave problem. The velocity field of some of the solutions exhibits a non-constant vorticity vector. An added bonus of the solutions we find is the possibility of incorporating a variable (in time and space) surface pressure which has a radial structure. A special type of radial structure of the surface pressure (of exponential type) is one of the features displayed by hurricanes, cf. Overland (Earle, Malahoff (eds) Overland in ocean wave climate, Plenum Pub. Corp., New York, 1979).
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