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The air-sea interaction regime characterized by the dominating waves travelling faster than the wind (swell) is much less well studied and understood than the situation with a wind speed higher than the dominant wave speed. In view of obvious applications, the interest in situations with growing waves is natural. Nevertheless, as pointed out already by Kitaigorodskii (1973), possible widespread occurrence of ‘supersmooth flow’ (Donelan 1990) over the ocean could be of considerable interest from a global climatological viewpoint. Observations of situations with very low surface friction, and even sometimes momentum flux directed from the water surface to the atmosphere during conditions with co/U > 1, where co is the speed of the dominating waves and U the wind speed at some low height above the water surface (typically 10 m), were found during several marine Soviet expeditions in the 1970-ies (Volkov 1970, Makova 1975; Benilov et al. 1974). Similar results were reported from measurements over Lake Michigan by Davidson and Frank (1973) and from waters outside the Australian coast by Antonia and Chambers (1980) and by Chambers and Antonia (1981).
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Smedman, A., Högström, U., Bergström, H., Kahma, K.K. (1999). The Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer During Swell, According to Recent Studies in the Baltic Sea. In: Geernaert, G.L. (eds) Air-Sea Exchange: Physics, Chemistry and Dynamics. Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9291-8_7
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