CONTENTS 



Page 



CONVERSION FACTORS, U.S. CUSTOMARY TO METRIC (SI) .... 7 



I INTRODUCTION 9 



1. Background 9 



2. Experimental Procedures 10 



3. Scope 11 



II RESULTS 11 



1. Wave Height Variability H 



2. Profile Surveys 15 



3. Sediment-Size Distribution 38 



4. Breaker Characteristics 38 



5. Wave-Generated Currents 43 



6. Water Temperature 43 



III PROFILE DEVELOPMENT AND REFLECTIVITY 43 



1. Profile Development 43 



2. Profile Reflectivity 46 



IV SUMMARY OF RESULTS 49 



1. Wave Height Variability 49 



2. Profile Equilibrium '. 51 



3. Other Laboratory Effects 51 



V CONCLUSIONS AND REC0^4MENDATI0NS 52 



1. Conclusions 52 



2. Recommendations 52 



LITERATURE CITED 54 



APPENDIX EXPERD4ENTAL PROCEDURES FOR 72D-06 57 



TABLES 



1 Summary of experimental conditions 10 



2 Experimental schedule for experiment 72D-06 12 



3 Data collection schedule within runs for experiment 72D-06. . . 13 



4 Wave heights during first 10 minutes for experiment 72D-06. . . 13 



5 Incident wave heights, movable- and fixed-bed tanks 14 



6 Reflection coefficients, manual and automated methods 16 



