Abstract: The estimation of wind-wave generation using a new discrete spectral model is compared to Hasselmann et al.'s (1976) parametric model and to models driven primarily by direct transfer of energy from the atmosphere into the ...

Abstract: In Part I of this series, a new method for estimating nonlinear transfer rates in wind waves, based on a two-scale approximation (TSA) to the full Boltzmann integral (FBI) for quadruplet wave?wave interactions, was presented, ...

Abstract: A new method for estimating the transfer rates in wind wave spectra is derived and tested, based on a two-scale approximation (TSA) to the total integral for quadruplet wave?wave interactions. Comparisons of this new ...

Abstract: The introduction of third-generation (3G) models was based on the premise that wave spectra could evolve without prior shape restrictions only if the representation for nonlinear interactions contained as many degrees of ...

Abstract: An increase in storm damage along the east coast of the United States coincides with secular variations of the general circulation documented by several recent investigations. To determine the coupling between large-scale ...

Abstract: Over the last quarter-century, hurricane surge has been assumed to be primarily a function of maximum storm wind speed, as might be estimated from the Saffir?Simpson hurricane scale. However, Hurricane Katrina demonstrated ...

Abstract: t has long been known that nonlinear wave?wave interactions produce stationary solutions related to constant energy flux through the equilibrium range when a deep-water spectrum follows an f?4 form, as has been verified ...

Abstract: Recent tests of all generations of numerical wave models indicate that extreme wave heights are significantly underpredicted by these models. This behavior is consistent with the finding by Ewing and Laing that fully ...