is to operate in the open North Pacific during 

 any season of the year. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



The authors wish to express their appre- 

 ciation to the many persons who contributed to 

 this atlas. The data represent the efforts of 

 many thousands of ships' officers and quarter- 

 ma s t e r s . The data were located and made 

 available by Roy L. Fox of the U. S. Weather 

 Bureau. Dorothy D. Stewart made the statis- 

 tical computations, Richard Callaway made 

 the wave calculations, and Tamotsu Nakata 

 drafted the charts. 



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