The correction essentially accounts for atmospheric stability based on air-sea temperature difference, and is applied to calculate the "effective" wind speed at 10-m height, from the input wind speed. Note that this code is active only when /STAB2
switch is enabled (optional), and works only with the /ST2
switch (Tolman and Chalikov 1996 source term package). It's implementation and test results have been described in Tolman 2002.
This is also documented in the manual for version 4.18, see equations (2.86)-(2.89) in section 2.3.7.
References:
Tolman, H. L. and D. V. Chalikov, 1996: Source terms in a third-generation wind-wave model. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 26, 2,497–2,518.
Tolman, H. L., 2002: Validation of WAVEWATCH III version 1.15 for a global domain. Tech. Note 213, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/OMB, 33 pp.