Ocean Wave Climate

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Wave Models and Wave Data Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Providing Winds for Wave Models

      • James E. Overland

      Pages 3-37

   3. Practical Determinations of Design Wave Conditions

      • Marshall D. Earle

      Pages 39-60

   4. State-of-the-Art Wave Prediction Methods and Data Requirements

      • Vincent J. Cardone, Duncan B. Ross

      Pages 61-91

   5. Wave Data Requirements for Ship Design and Operation

      • Susan Lee Bales, William E. Cummins

      Pages 93-107

   6. Extreme Waves and Loadings on Floating Vessels

      • Daniel Hoffman

      Pages 109-125

3. Wave Measurements

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. Ocean Surface Features Observed by HF Coastal Ground-Wave Radars: A Progress Review

      • Donald E. Barrick, Belinda J. Lipa

      Pages 129-152

   3. A Compact Transportable HF Radar System for Directional Coastal Wave Field Measurements

      • Donald E. Barrick, Belinda J. Lipa

      Pages 153-201

   4. Synthetic Aperture HF Radar Wave Measurement Experiments

      • Calvin C. Teague

      Pages 203-220

   5. High Frequency Skywave Measurements of Waves and Currents Associated with Tropical and Extra-Tropical Storms

      • Joseph W. Maresca Jr.

      Pages 221-234

   6. An Assessment of GEOS-3 Wave Height Measurements

      • Chester L. Parsons

      Pages 235-251

   7. On the Use of Aircraft in the Observation of One- and Two-Dimensional Ocean Wave Spectra

      • Duncan B. Ross

      Pages 253-267

   8. Directional Wave Spectra from Wave Sensors

      • Leon E. Borgman

      Pages 269-300

   9. Data Buoy Wave Measurements

      • Kenneth Steele, Andrew Johnson Jr.

      Pages 301-316

   10. Measuring the Nearshore Wave Climate: California Experience

       • Richard J. Seymour

       Pages 317-326

   11. A Note on the Wave Climatology of UK Waters

       • Laurence Draper

       Pages 327-331

4. Recommendations of Symposium Working Groups

   1. Recommendations of Symposium Working Groups

      • Marshall D. Earle, Alexander Malahoff

      Pages 333-353

5. Summaries of Presentations by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

   1. Summaries of Presentations by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

      • Marshall D. Earle, Alexander Malahoff

      Pages 355-358

Waves critically affect man in coastal regions, including the open coasts and adjacent continental shelves. Preventing beach erosion, designing and building structures, designing and operating ships, providing marine forecasts, and coastal planning are but a few examples of projects for which extensive information about wave conditions is critical. Scientific studies, especially those in­ volving coastal processes and the development of better wave prediction models, also require wave condition information. How­ ever, wave conditions along and off the coasts of the United States have not been adequately determined. The main categories of available wave data are visual estimates of wave conditions made from ships at sea, scientific measurements of waves made for short time periods at specific locations, and a small number of long-term measurements made from piers or offshore platforms. With these considerations in mind, the National Ocean Survey of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sponsored the Ocean Wave Climate Symposium at Herndon, Virginia, July 12-14, 1977. This volume contains papers presented at this symposium. A goal of the symposium was to establish the foundations for a com­ prehensive and far-sighted wave measurement and analysis program to fully describe the coastal wave climate of the United States. Emphasis was placed on ocean engineering and scientific uses of wave data, existing wave monitoring programs, and modern measure­ ment techniques which may provide currently needed data.

• Coast
• Coastal Region
• climate
• development
• erosion
• formation
• marine
• ocean

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Rockville, USA

  Marshall D. Earle, Alexander Malahoff

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