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This is the second of a series of reports describing results from a high-resolu- 

 tion directional wave gauge installed on the Texaco Oil Company Harvest Plat- 

 form. The purpose of this gauge is long-term monitoring of the directional wind 

 wave climate at a deepwater site that can be used to represent open ocean condi- 

 tions for waves approaching the coast of southern California. This report indexes 

 parameters of and describes a means of access to 2,320 frequency-direction spec- 

 tral observations made during calendar year 1994. 



The primary intent of this report is to publicize these observations so that they 

 can be used by researchers interested in seaward boundary conditions in coastal 

 wave propagation models, studies of ocean wave evolution, comparison studies 

 with locally deployed low-resolution directional wave gauges, and ground truth in 

 remote sensing research. Improved knowledge resulting from such studies will 

 enhance abilities to model the physics of open ocean wave processes, and the con- 

 sequent nearshore wave climate required in coastal engineering computations as 

 such waves propagate landward. 



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