WAVE SPECTRA ESTIMATED FROM WAVE RECORDS OBTAINED BY THE OWS WEATHER EXPLORER AND THE OWS WEATHER REPORTER

As a part of the problem of developing numerical wave forecasting procedures for the North Atlantic Ocean, selected sequences of the weather maps for the North Atlantic for which wave data were known to be available were studied in detail for the five year period beginning in April 1955 and ending in March 1960. Certain dates and times of observations were selected for a variety of reasons for study. For these dates and times, the National Institute of Oceanography provided copies of the wave records that were obtained by the OWS Weather Explorer and by the OWS Weather Reporter. In total, about 800 wave records were provided, and a complete spectral analysis is planned for about 400 of these records. This report is the first of a series of reports to present in tabular and graphical form the results of these analyses. The total number of spectra given is 114.