PREFACE 



The report provides coastal engineers an annotated bibliography of the key 

 publications dealing with wave-current interaction, a phenomenon which may 

 affect wave height and wave direction in unexpected ways. Peregrine and Jonsson 

 (1983) presents an overview of wave-current interaction and a comprehensive 

 review of significant references. The work was carried out under the U.S. Army 

 Coastal Engineering Research Center's (CERC) Waves at Entrances work unit, 

 Harbor Entrances and Coastal Channels Program, Coastal Engineering Area of 

 Civil Works Research and Development. 



The report was prepared by D. Howell Peregrine of the University of Bristol, 

 England, with assistance from Ivar G. Jonsson of the Institute of Hydrodynamics 

 and Hydraulic Engineering (ISVA) , Technical University of Denmark, and Cyril J. 

 Calvin, Coastal Engineer, under CERC Contract No. DACW72-80-C-0004 . 



The authors acknowledge the following people for their assistance in pre- 

 paring this bibliography: A. Capodice, P. Balduman, S. Zukor, and others. 



Dr. B. Herchenroder was the contract monitor for the report, under the 

 general supervision of Dr. C.L. Vincent, Chief, Coastal Oceanography Branch, 

 and Mr. R.P. Savage, Chief, Research Division, CERC. 



Technical Director of CERC was Dr. Robert W. Whalin, P.E. 



Comments on this publication are invited. 



Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th Congress, 

 approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th Congress, 

 approved 7 November 1963. 



TED E. BISHOP 



Colonel, Corps of Engineers 



Commander and Director 



