TM No. 3^2 



FOREWORD 



The work discussed in this report is a 

 result of studies presently being made by the 

 Naval Underwater Ordnance Station (NUOS)^ 

 Newport^ R. I., and the Planetary Circulations 

 Project of the Department of Meteorology^ M.I.T. 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



The objective is to form a better under- 

 standing of the dynamic and tiirbulent motions 

 of wind waves and swell. 



