NOTICE OF PUBLICATION OF 



THE BULLETIN OF THE BEACH EROSION BOARD 



SPECIAL ISSUE NOo 1 



The purpose of the regular quarterly issues of the 

 Bulletin of the Beach Erosion Board is to disseminate to 

 the interested public timely information regarding research 

 activities, cooperative beach erosion studies, and other 

 items of interest dealing with the subject of coastal 

 erosion „ It is the intent that the Bulletin cover to some 

 extent the publications of other agencies dealing with some 

 phase of the problem of coastal erosion from wave attack „ 



In connection with the latter intent it has been found 

 that on some occasions other agencies or authors have un- 

 published data which are believed to be of considerable 

 interest to other workers in this field. Whenever practi- 

 cable, it is hoped that arrangements can be made to publish 

 these data as special issues of the Bulletin of the Beach 

 Erosion Board . 



The first special issue of the Bulletin will accord- 

 ingly present a collection of data which has received only 

 limited distribution to date. These data were prepared by 

 members of the staff of the Department of Engineering of 

 the University of California, in connection with contract 

 work done by the Department for the U. S. Navy- These 

 data may be divided into two catagories, as follows: 



1. A set of 20 graphs expressing various useful 

 relationships between wave height, wave length, wave period, 

 wave velocity, depth of breaking, wave refraction, wind 

 velocity, fetch, decay distance, and other variables. 



2„ A set of tables of functions showing the re- 

 lationships of the d/L ratio and the d/L ratio to each 

 other and to other determinate features of water waves . 

 In effect, these tables define very closely the gradual 

 changes in the internal mechanics of wave motion for 

 various positions of the wave between deep water and the 

 breaker line. 



Copies of this special bulletin will be furnished 

 free on request to agencies having need of such data- The 

 special bulletin will receive no automatic distribution. 

 Requests for copies should be addressed to: 



The Resident Member 



Beach Erosion Board 



Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers 



5201 Little Falls Road, M. f. 



Washington 16, D. C. 



