Theoretical interpretation of fetch limited wind-drivensea observations

V. E. Zakharov (1, 2, 3)

1 Department of Mathematics
2 L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of RAS
3 Waves and Solitons LLC

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.

Domaines: Cosmologie et astrophysique extra-galactique [astro-ph.CO]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]; Sciences de la Terre

V. E. Zakharov. Theoretical interpretation of fetch limited wind-drivensea observations. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 2005, 12 (6), pp.1011-1020. ⟨hal-00302682⟩