0.0001 



0.0005 



0.001 



c 



Q. 0.005 



- 0.01 - 



o 



> 



o 0.05 



E 



<3 0.1 



0.5 



1 — r 



From seventy-two 15-minute samples 

 containing a total of 11,678 waves 

 (15,364 calculated waves) 



J__L 



.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 

 1.42 



2.0 2.2 



2.4 



2.6 



2.8 



3.0 



3.2 



Scaled Height, H/Hrms 



Figure 3-4. Theoretical and observed wave height distributions. 

 (Observed waves from 72 individual 15-minute obser- 

 vations from several Atlantic coast wave gages are 

 superimposed on the Rayleigh distribution curve.) 



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