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Abstract
The purpose of this note is to incorporate the effect of wave breaking in the parametrization of the sea surface roughness as seen from below. It is shown that aerodynamically smooth conditions in the classical sense never exist below the sea surface, since effective turbulent viscosity due to shear free turbulence generated by wave breaking is much larger than molecular.