APPENDIX B: WAVE ANALYSIS RESULTS FOR EXPERIMENTS 



1. This appendix contains analyzed results for the time series of water 

 surfaces elevations collected by the gage arrays at the two locations in the 

 wave flume during the experimental test series. Each documented experiment 

 has a table of values for the offshore gage array and the nearshore gage 

 array. All wave parameter values in each table represent the average of the 

 three gages comprising the array. 



2. Each wave data collection is denoted by a unique filename. The 

 first two characters are the same for all files; the third and fourth 

 characters represent the experiment number (e.g., T03) ; the fifth character is 

 the same for all; the seventh and eighth characters correspond to a series of 

 wave bursts between profiling stops; and the final character is the burst 

 sequence within the wave series. For example, ST01W05A was the first set of 

 waves run after a profiling stop, and ST01W05E was the final set, so five 

 bursts of waves were run between profiling stops. 



3. For all tables except Table B14, the column "Total Waves" is the 

 approximate cumulative total of waves run in the wave flume. The 

 corresponding column on Table B14 is labeled "Number Waves," and it gives the 

 total analyzed number of irregular waves for each burst of waves . 



4. The parameters listed on the tables are defined as below: 



H^Q - Energy-based significant wave height found as four times the 

 standard deviation of sea surface elevations. 



Hjjgj. - Average wave height as determined from zero down-crossing method. 



H-i^/3 - Significant wave height obtained as the average of the highest 1/3 

 waves determined from zero down-crossing method. 



U^aax ' Highest wave determined from zero down- crossing method. 



TpC - Wave period associated with the spectral peak. 



^bar ■ Average wave period determined from zero down-crossing method. 



^1/3 ■ Average wave period associated with the highest 1/3 waves 

 determined from zero down-crossing method. 



Reflection coefficients were determined from analysis of the three gage array. 



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