NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING 
RESEARCH DIVISION 
Department of Meteorology and Oceanography 
Models of Random Seas Based on the Lagrangian Equations of Motion 
by 
Willard J. Pierson, Jr. 
Technical Report Prepared for 
the Office of Naval Research 
under contract 
Nonr -285(03) 
April 1961 
