CONTENTS 



FIGURES — Continued 



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8 Map of local area 22 



9 Instrument locations at the FRF 29 



10 Map of FRF site showing location of primary survey monuments 31 



11 CERC profile line locations 34 



12 Coastal Research Amphibious Buggy ( CRAB) 35 



13 Wind roses at Sea Crest, North Carolina 38 



14 Seasonal variation in mean significant wave height and mean 



peak spectral period 38 



15 Storm waves breaking along the FRF, 25 October 1980 40 



16 Seasonal variation in visually observed mean breaking wave 



height and mean period from Sea Crest, North Carolina 40 



17 Distribution of breaking wave directions at Sea Crest, 



North Carolina 41 



18 Longshore current at Sea Crest, North Carolina, 1973 42 



19 Two views of southward-moving edge of freshwater mass 43 



20 Storm tracks affecting the east coast 44 



21 Monthly storm frequency and hindcasted wave height 46 



22 Hurricane statistics for North Carolina 47 



23 Major hurricanes passing within 50 nautical miles of the FRF 48 



24 Storm duration probability based on wave data recorded by the 



CERC gage at Nags Flead, North Carolina 49 



25 Potential net transport versus time 51 



26 Coastal storm surge frequencies north of Cape Lookout, 



North Carolina 52 



27 Tide frequencies at Wright Monument, North Carolina 53 



28 Present and historic inlets from the Virginia-North Carolina 



border to Cape Lookout 55 



29 Average preconstruction and postconstruction erosion rates for 



28 kilometers of shoreline near the FRF 56 



30 Contour map of the FRF site 57 



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