0.000 



0.0005 



0.001 



Q. 0.005 



- 0.0 



o 

 .a 

 o 



a> 



> 



3 



E 



0.05 



0.5 



From seventy-two 15-minute samples 

 containing a total of 11,678 waves 

 (15,364 calculated waves) 



Hg Theory 



J__L 



1.0 1.2 1.4 I 

 1.42 



2.0 2.2 



2.4 



A 



2.6 



2.8 



3.0 



3.2 



Scaled Heigtit (H/Hrms) 



Figure 3-4. Theoretical and Observed Wave-Height Distributions. 

 Observed waves from 72 individual 15-minute 

 observations from several Atlantic coast wave gages 

 are superimposed on the Rayleigh distribution curve 



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