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In the course of the new treatment of the growth process of wind waves presented in part I of the present series of the articles, there was a point where the wave energy and wave momentum were not related correctly. This point has been revised with critical argument, and at the same time, the form of the ratior, between the wind stress that directly enter the wind waves and the total wind stress, has been derived analytically. The growth equation, under the condition that the wind stress is constant, is still the same with that derived in part I, with the exception that the ratior is given analytically.
A comparison between the ratior obtained analytically and that estimated empirically in part I, raises a problem to be studied about the wave current of the actual wind waves.
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Toba, Y. Local balance in the air-sea boundary processes. Journal of the Oceanographical Society of Japan 29, 70–75 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02109506
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02109506