Preliminary study on the effect of wind wave development on sea surface wind stress coefficient

In the present paper,the most recently presented theory for the linear parameterization of sea surface wind stress coefficient has been used to analyze the available observation data in the literatures concerning sea surface wind stress and corresponding wind wave.The analyses of these data indicate that the variation of sea surface wind stress coefficient with wind speed was more rapid for small wave steepness than that for large wave steepness.The present results tend to qualitatively support Toba et al's result which states that the mature wind wave is rougher than younger wind wave.