Revisiting the Pierson–Moskowitz asymptotic limits for fully developed wind waves

By J. Alves, Michael L. Banner, I. Young. 2003

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Oceanography

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A Global Climatology of Wind–Wave Interaction (2010, background): “Alves et al. (2003) have shown that the Pierson and Moskowitz (1964) fully developed asymptotic limit for the peak frequency can be expressed in terms of the wave age, c p /( U 10 cos u ), as where c p is the peak phase speed of the waves, U 10 is the 10-m wind speed, and u is the relative angle…”
Large-Eddy Simulations and Observations of Atmospheric Marine Boundary Layers above Nonequilibrium Surface Waves (2008, methodology): “Surface waves are the primary source of roughness 1 Several definitions of wave age are used in the literature (e.g., see Komen et al. 1994; Alves et al. 2003; Plant 1982).”
A global wave parameter database for geophysical applications. Part 1: Wave-current turbulence interaction parameters for the open ocean based on traditional parameterizations (2008, background): “Indeed, in several years of data, Pierson and Moskowitz (1964) could only find about 20 instances of fully developed seas (Alves et al., 2003).”
Dynamics of Winds and Currents Coupled to Surface Waves (2010, background): “When winds and waves reach equilibrium or full development (i.e., wave field statistics are stationary), cp /u∗a ∼ 30 and cp /Ua ∼ 1.2 (Alves et al. 2003).”
Wave Modeling—Missing the Peaks (2009, background): “The very nice work by Alves et al. (2003) in reanalyzing the original P-M64 data, although acknowledging the good work of Pierson and Moskowitz, implicitly stresses the approximations involved in the data, also for the driving wind fields.”
Semiempirical Dissipation Source Functions for Ocean Waves. Part I: Definition, Calibration, and Validation (2009, methodology): “In spite of its successful use for the estimation of the significant wave height Hs and peak period Tp, these fixedshape parameterizations, from KHH up to Bidlot et al. (2007a), have built-in defects that limit the accuracy of the mode results.”
Structure of the airflow above surface waves (2016, background): “2 (Alves et al. 2003). This is when the spectral density of the wave field reaches an upper limit, because energy dissipation processes are balancing the energy input from the wind (Phillips 1977). Young seas with wave ages Cp/U10 below 1.2 are often considered to be in a ‘‘wind-driven wave regime,’”
Numerical Wave Modeling in Conditions with Strong Currents: Dissipation, Refraction, and Relative Wind. J (2012, unknown): “At global scales, the good performance of the Ardhuin et al. (2009) parameterization is largely due the introduction of a realistic nonlinear swell dissipation, which is the most important ingredient for obtaining low errors. Although breaking statistics are certainly nonlinear in terms of spectral ”
Surface gravity wave effects in the oceanic boundary layer: large-eddy simulation with vortex force and stochastic breakers (2007, methodology): “In terms of significant wave height, all the data are well below the estimate for fully developed waves discussed in § 2.1 (Alves et al. 2003).”