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Negative correlations of variations in near-water wind and surface wind waves

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The relationship between the intensity of surface wind waves and near-water wind is analyzed. The data of measuring wind waves and near-water wind under natural conditions in the Black Sea (July 2004) and Norwegian Sea (June 2003, 16th cruise of the R/V Akademik Sergei Vavilov) are used. A phenomenon of negative correlations has been found between the intensity of wind waves and near-water wind in regions of substantial restructuring of wind waves in the field of inhomogeneous flows: wind-wave amplification during wind decay and vice versa. Examples of such observations are presented, a theoretical model is constructed for the observed phenomenon, and a good agreement is obtained between theory and experiment.

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  1. Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Ul’yanova 46, Nizhni Novgorod, 603950, Russia

    Yu. I. Troitskaya, I. S. Dolina, A. V. Ermoshkin, V. V. Bakhanov, E. M. Zuikova, I. A. Repina & V. I. Titov

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Original Russian Text © Yu.I. Troitskaya, I.S. Dolina, A.V. Ermoshkin, V.V. Bakhanov, E.M. Zuikova, I.A. Repina, V.I. Titov, 2008, published in Izvestiya AN. Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2008, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 527–542.

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Troitskaya, Y.I., Dolina, I.S., Ermoshkin, A.V. et al. Negative correlations of variations in near-water wind and surface wind waves. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 44, 491–506 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433808040105

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