Paper No. 6691 ANALYSIS OF RECORDS OF SEA WAVES by Malcolm John Tucker, B.Sc., F.Inst.P. National Institute of Oceanography, Wormley, Godalming, Surrey For written discussion SYNOPSIS A record of sea waves is complicated, andin principle can only be described adequately by its spectrum or the equivalent. However, for many practical purposes a simplified description has to be used consisting of a characteristic wave height and a characteristic wave period. These have been specified in many different ways leading to different parameters whose inter-relationships a e not simple...