TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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ABSTRACT 1 



INTRODUCTION 1 



SOURCES OF DATA 2 



Weather Bureau Data 2 



Stereophotographs of Sea Surface 4 



Sea Surface Profiles 6 



STATISTICAL BACKGROUND 8 



EVALUATION OF RELIABILITY OF VISUAL ESTIMATES OF WAVE HEIGHT 11 



DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS OF WAVE HEIGHTS AND WAVE PERIODS 



FROM ANALYSIS OF U.S. WEATHER BUREAU DATA 14 



SUMMARY 15 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 15 



APPENDIX A - PROCEDURE FOR ANALYSIS OF STEREOPHOTOGRAPHS 39 



APPENDIX 3 • COMPARISON OF WAVE STATISTICS 45 



APPENDIX C - SAMPLE CALCULATION 49 



REFERENCES 51 



