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

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