On nonlinearity implications and wind forcing in Hasselmann equation

Abstract

We discuss several experimental and theoretical techniques historically used for Hasselmann equation wind input terms derivation. We show that recently developed ZRP technique in conjunction with high-frequency damping without spectral peak dissipation allows to reproduce more than a dozen of fetch-limited field experiments. Numerical simulation of the same Cauchy problem for different wind input terms has been performed to discuss nonlinearity implications as well as correspondence to theoretical predictions.