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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
Volume 37, Issue 10, Pages 2389-2400Publisher
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JPO3128.1
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Finite-amplitude deep-water waves are subject to modulational instability, which eventually can lead to the formation of extreme waves. In shallow water, finite-amplitude surface gravity waves generate a current and deviations from the mean surface elevation. This stabilizes the modulational instability, and as a consequence the process of nonlinear focusing ceases to exist when kh < 1.363. This is a well-known property of surface gravity waves. Here it is shown for the first time that the usual starting point, namely the Zakharov equation, for deriving the nonlinear source term in the energy balance equation in wave forecasting models, shares this property as well. Consequences for wave prediction are pointed out.
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