CONTENTS 



Page 



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



SYMBOLS AND DEFINITIONS 6 



I INTRODUCTION 7 



II MONOCHROMATIC WAVE OVERTOPPING EQUATION 7 



III ADAPTION OF MONOCHROMATIC WAVE OVERTOPPING EQUATION 



TO IRREGULAR WAVE CONDITIONS 8 



IV GENERALIZING THE IRREGULAR WAVE OVERTOPPING 



TECHNIQUE 11 



V SUMMARY 14 



APPENDIX FORTRAN PROGRAM TO COMPUTE IRREGULAR WAVE 



OVERTOPPING RATES 19 



TABLES 



1 Or"' Qm as a function of the relative freeboard, (h-ds)/Rs, 



and the overtopping parameter, a 15 



2 Qo.5' Qm 3.S a function of the relative freeboard, 



(h-ds)/Rs, and the overtopping parameter, a 16 



FIGURES 



1 Qi>/Qm ^rid Qo . s/Qm curves as a function of the relative 



freeboard for a = 0.08 12 



2 Qr/Qm and Qo.s/Qm curves as a function of the relative 



freeboard, for a = 0.04, 0.06, 0.08, and 0.10 13 



