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Theoretical interpretation of fetch limited wind-drivensea observations
1Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
2Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of Russian Academyof Sciences, Moscow, Russia
3Waves and Solitons LLC, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Abstract. We show that the results of major fetch limited field studies of wind-generated surface gravity waves on deep water can be explained in the framework of simple analytical model. The spectra measured in these experiments are described by self-similar solutions of ``conservative" Hasselmann equation that includes only advective and nonlinear interaction terms. Interaction with the wind and dissipation due to the wave breaking indirectly defines parameters of the self-similar solutions.
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Citation: Zakharov, V. E.: Theoretical interpretation of fetch limited wind-drivensea observations, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 12, 1011-1020, 2005. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager
