Abstract
Janssen’s model for the effect of gustiness on the mean energy transfer from a turbulent wind to a surface wave is simplified through a Gauss–Hermite approximation to his probability integral. Two examples are considered.
Corresponding author address: John W. Miles, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225.