NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 

 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING 

 RESEARCH DIVISION 

 Department 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 

 Wilbur Marks 

 Emanuel Mehr 

 Willard J. Pier son, Jr, 

 F. Claude Ronne 

 George Stephenson 

 Richard C. Vetter 

 Robert G. Walden 



with the assistance of personnel from 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) 



