The Capillary Waves’ Contribution to Wind-Wave Generation
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The paper give interested and extensive equations derivation which are hard to verified in a very short time period. The paper, however, is well written, although typo may be occurred during editing. The paper is acceptable and following comments are given for reference:
- The equation typesetting ran away, affecting the reading of the article. Sub-section title called discussion in many places could diffuse the content of the article.
- Section 5 should be the conclusion, and comments came from the references should not appear in the conclusion.
- The Vc values quoted in this article vary greatly, with the minimum value Vc = 3.2 1/s. Equation (55) Implies that I=2, what should be the corresponding Vc? What wind field conditions it is.
- If the water is contaminated and the Marangoni effect might be important and the surface tension shall be considered. Besides, the surface vorticity and free surface current will affect the evolution of the free surface signature. The author might like to include comments on this matter.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The author analyzed the role of capillary waves in wind-wave generation process. The author still needs to provide more precise observational data to prove his hypothesis and theoretical analyses.
Line 40: missing “the” before “basis”.
Line 87: “ntroduction” should be “Introduction”.
The format issues with the equation numbers need to be corrected, e.g., Line 154, 190, 206, 323, 405-409.
Line 355-356: format issue with the listed numbers in Table 2.
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Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
The author added a figure to show an early stage of wave generation and corrected the format.
