PREFACE 



The information in this technical aid was presented at the U.S. Army 

 Engineer Division, South Pacific's Water Level Prediction short course 

 in San Francisco, California, .'^0 March-1 April 1976, and at the Tsunami 

 Symposium, sponsored by the Tsunami Committee of the International Union 

 of Geodesy and Geophysics, held in Ensenada, Mexico, 23-26 March 1977. 

 The work was carried out under the coastal structures program of the 

 U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC) . 



The report was prepared by Dr. Frederick E. Camfield, Hydraulic 

 Engineer, Coastal Design Criteria Branch, under the general supervision 

 of Robert A. Jachowski, Chief, Coastal Design Criteria Branch. 



Comments on this publication are invited. 



Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th 

 Congress, approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 

 88th Congress, approved 7 November 1963. 



^JOHN H. COUSINS 

 Colonel, Corps of Engineers 

 Commander and Director 



