A summer and winter month of 12-hourly synoptic spectral wave analyses produced by the Fleet Numerical Weather Central, Monterey, California were used to develop three experimental wave climatology formats for a point in the Gulf of Alaska; the analyses were produced by the Spectral Ocean Wave Model at FNWC which computes the wave energy contained in 12 direction bands and 15 frequency bands for a grid point array in the Northern Hemisphere oceans. The gross climatology format displays frequency of occurrence of significant wave height by period and direction, but does not differentiate between sea and swell. The two-dimensional spectral climatology format is a tabulation of the frequency of occurrence of spectral energy in various frequency and direction bands. The one-dimensional spectral format displays the distribution of spectral wave energy over various frequency bands but contains no directional information. Both of the spectral formats appear to have their greatest potential application in resonance response of floating and fixed structures. (Author).

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Specifications are presented for the production of ocean wave statistics for the California coast from approximately 28 years of archived synoptic wave analyses computed by the Fleet Numerical Weather Central, Monterey, California. The wave statistics, designed for coastal engineering application, would be prepared for six deep-water stations uniformly spaced along the coast from the Oregon border to the Mexico border, and would be prepared in the form of desk-top copy immediately available for use. (Author).