Contents 



Prefece v 



Conversion Factors, Non-SI to SI Units of Measurement vii 



1— Introduction 1 



Background 1 



Objectives 1 



Scope 2 



2— Experiment Arrangement 3 



Idealized Inlet Facility 3 



Instrumentation and Calibration 7 



Experiment Series ^ 



3— Experiment Procedures and Data Analysis 9 



Sequence of Events and Data Sampling 9 



Data Analysis 9 



4— Results 15 



1-D Wave-Current Interaction 15 



Breaking Formulations 1' 



Spectra 1^ 



Calculating Wave Breaking on a Current 20 



Dissipation rates 20 



Wave heights 23 



5— Conclusions 28 



References 29 



Photos 1-6 



