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The first three of these runs probably have greatest significance 

 because they show first the action of the tides and rainfall in 

 distributing the bleed water and then how the average conditions 

 of the two major seasonal wind directions and forces influence 

 this distribution. In nature the wind over Barataria Bay appar- 

 ently does not often blow long enough from any of the non- 

 prevailing directions to re-establish a corresponding equilib- 

 rium distribution of bleed water. Each of the wind runs in the 

 model was carried through a little more than one semi-monthly 

 change of the diurnal tide sequence. The equilibria represented 

 in the films of the model undergo continuous cyclic modification 

 as the contributions of the tidal, rainfall and wind circulation 

 systems change in relative importance through a two-week period. 

 The drawings of the results of these tests (Appendix III) show 

 the accumulated greatest extension of bleed water pattern and do 

 not represent the distribution at any one time. Distinction has 

 been made between the continuous and intermittent distribution, 

 some of which is tidal and some due to the changing direction and 

 force of the winds. 



