American Society of Civil Engineers 
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New York, NY 10017 
Publication 
Revisions to Hurricane Design Wave Practices, 
Coastal Engineering, Volume 1, 1972 Proceedings 
Bretschneider, C. L., Chapter 7, pp 167-195 
Publication Date: 1973 
Location: US east and gulf coasts 
Contents: This is a conference paper presented by the author to the Thir- 
teenth Coastal Engineering Conference in Vancouver, B. C., Canada. The 1959 
paper by the same author entitled "Hurricane Design Wave Practices" has been 
widely used in the past for obtaining design wave criteria. The revision 
presented in this paper applies to the US east and gulf coasts past historical 
hurricanes and also to the US National Weather Service standard project and 
probable maximum hurricanes for deepwater conditions. The results are pre- 
sented in 14 figures and 4 tables and could serve as inputs for a particular 
location to calculate design storm surge and design wave criteria. 
Available From: American Society of Civil Engineers 
345 East 47th Street 
New York, NY 10017 
or most university libraries. 
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