Spectra of fully developed wind waves in a finite-depth sea

The steady-state solutions to the transfer equation for the spectrum of sur face gravity waves in a finite-depth sea that are obtained in the previous authors' study [12] are applied to describe fully developed wind waves at f inite depths. For this purpose, the corresponding generalization of the "bl ocking" range hypothesis used earlier to describe the short-wave range of d eep-water spectra is proposed [8]. The theoretical results obtained for the form of the spectrum of fully developed wind waves at finite depths provid e a good explanation for the main qualitative features known from measureme nts.