A general term for numerical models designed to simulate the generation, propagation, shoaling, interaction, refraction, reflection, etc. of wind waves. These are used to predict wave fields for complicated wave fields and bathymetry. First generation wave models include:

SOWM

ODGP (Reece and Cardone (1982))

GSOWM Second generation models include:

SAIL (Greenwood et al. (1985))

NOW

WINCH

ODGP-2 Third generation models include:

CSOWM (Khandekar et al. (1994))

SWAN

WAVEWATCH