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Nonlinear growth rate of wind water waves and their excitation near the stability threshold

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The amplitude dependences of the growth rate of water waves generated by turbulent wind are theoretically investigated within the framework of a quasilinear approximation.

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Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 38, Nos. 3–4, pp. 206–210, March–April, 1995.

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Reutov, V.P., Troitskaya, Y.I. Nonlinear growth rate of wind water waves and their excitation near the stability threshold. Radiophys Quantum Electron 38, 133–136 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01037885

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