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In the laboratory, fetch limited pattern of water surface waves at strong winds are seen to develop in three different ways associated with different and consecutive regions: a linear region, in which waves grow exponentially without length change, a saturation region in which waves lengthen (number of waves is not preserved) while maintaining their shape, and a breaking region. The generation process of the first ripples and some characteristics of the waves in the saturation zone are discussed in this paper.
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Plate, E.J. (1978). Wind-Generated Water Surface Waves: The Laboratory Evidence. In: Favre, A., Hasselmann, K. (eds) Turbulent Fluxes Through the Sea Surface, Wave Dynamics, and Prediction. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9806-9_25
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