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Chesapeake Bay Wave Climate : Thimble Shoals Wave Station, Report And Summary Of Wave Observations, September 27, 1988 Through October 17, 1989, John D. Boon, S. M. Kimball, K. D. Suh, D. A. Hepworth

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The Virginia Institute of Marine Science, in cooperation with the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of Soil and Water Conservation, has identified as one of its major goals the systematic study of hydrodynamic processes that affect recreational, shoreline and benthic resources in the coastal zone of the Commonwealth. In pursuit of that goal, a long-term study of the wave climate in the Virginia portion of Chesapeake Bay was initiated in 1988 with support from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration through the Coastal Zone Management Program administered by the Virginia Council on the Environment (Grant Ho. HA88AA-D-CZ092). Past …