CONTENTS 



Page 



CONVERSION FACTORS, U.S. CUSTOMARY TO METRIC (SI) 5 



SYMBOLS AND DEFINITIONS 6 



I INTRODUCTION 7 



II WAVE HEIGHT PREDICTION CURVES 7 



III USE OF CURVES 8 



IV EXAMPLE PROBLEMS 11 



LITERATURE CITED 14 



APPENDIX METHODOLOGY AND GOVERNING SPECTRAL EQUATIONS 15 



FIGURES 



1 Transformation of JONSWAP spectrum in shallow water 8 



2 Dimensionless fetch versus dimensionless wave height as 



a function of cI/Hq 9 



3 Ratio, R, of windspeed overwater, U^, to windspeed overland, Ul, 



as a function of windspeed overland, U;^ 10 



4 Amplification ratio, Rt, accounting for effects of air-sea 



temperature difference 11 



5 Determining the fetch length of an irregularly shaped 



water body in the wind direction 12 



