We analyze modern operational models of wind wave prediction on the subject for compliance dissipation. Our numerical simulations from the "first principle" demonstrate that heuristic formulas for damping rate of free wind sea due to "white capping" (or wave breaking) dramatically exaggerates the role of this effect in these models.
@article{arxiv.1603.08229,
title = {Evolution of One-Dimensional Wind-Driven Sea Spectra},
author = {A. I. Dyachenko and D. I. Kachulin and V. E. Zakharov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.08229},
year = {2016}
}