Interactive comment on “Ocean swell within the kinetic equation for water waves” by Sergei Badulin
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Nonlinear Processes Geophysics, NPG-16Ocean Swell within the kinetic equation for water waves Zakharov and Badulin The authors present interesting notions about swell evolution for long durations and it seems worth publishing. Based on my considerations I recommend a major review. There are 3 important notions that should be discussed or modified in more detail. One concerns the model setup used for the numerical simulations, the second concerns the discussion of the initial swell decay for the near field, and the third concerns the role of weak winds. A major assumption, of which the consequences are not yet clear, is that swell evolution is treated as duration-limited evolution in an infinitely homogeneous ocean, which ef-
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