NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 



COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING 



RESEARCH DIVISION 



Depctrtment of Meteorology and Oceanography 



and 

 Engineering Statistics Group 





The 

 DIRECTIONAL SPECTRUM 



of a 



WIND GENERATED SEA 



As determined from data obtained by the 



Stereo Wave Observation Project 



by 



Joseph Chase 

 Louis J. Cote 

 Wilbiir Marks 

 Emanuel Mehr 

 Willard J. Pierson, Jr. 

 F. Claude Ronne 

 George Stephenson 

 Richard C. Vetter 

 Robert G. Walden 



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with the assistance of peisonnel horn the following organizations: 

 David Taylor Model Basin 



George Washington University Logistics Research Project 

 Naval Air Development Unit, N.A.S. South Weymouth, Mass. 

 Office of Naval Research 

 U. S. Navy Hydrographic Office 

 U. S. Naval Photographic Interpretation Center 

 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 



Prepared for 



THE OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH 



UNDER CONTRACT NONR 285(03) 



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