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• Essai sur la Théorie des Eaux Courantes (in French; Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1877), by Joseph Boussinesq
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• An introduction to sea state forecasting (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service ;, 1981), by Graham P. Britton, Kenneth E. Lilly, and United States National Weather Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water waves; the mathematical theory with applications (Interscience Publishers, 1957), by J. J. Stoker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Waves and tides (Philosophical Library, 1953), by R. C. H. Russell and D. H. Macmillan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Waves of the sea and other water waves (The Open Court Publishing, 1912), by Vaughan Cornish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Graphical construction of wave refraction diagrams (Washington, D.C. : United States Navy Department, Hydrographic Office, 1948, 1948), by J. W. Johnson, John D. Isaacs, and Morrough P. O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Breakers and surf, principles in forecasting. ([Washington], 1944), by United States. Hydrographic Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Techniques for forecasting wind waves and swell (Washington, 1951), by United States. Hydrographic Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die wellen, die schwingungen und die naturkräfte (F. Vieweg & sohn akt.-ges., 1926), by Max Møoller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wave mechanics; an introductory sketch (Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1927), by Henry Francis Biggs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The theory of sound (Dover Publications, 1945), by John William Strutt Rayleigh and Robert Bruce Lindsay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theory of sound. (Macmillan and co., 1877), by John William Strutt Rayleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Waves in anisotropic plasmas (M.I.T. Press, 1963), by William P. Allis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effect of wave formation on hydro-engineering structures (Vozdeistvie nabegayushchikh voln na gidrotekhnicheskie sooruzheniya) (Israel Program for Scientific Translations;, 1965), by K. I. Arsenishvili, National Science Foundation (U.S.), and United States. Dept. of the Interior (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Traveling-wave engineering. (McGraw-Hill, 1960), by Richard K. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coasts, waves and weather, for navigators (Ginn and company, 1945), by John Quincy Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The effect of islands on surface waves. (University of California Press, 1951), by Robert S. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wellen im luftmeer : neuere untersuchungen über gesetzmässigkeiten im gange und in der verteilung des luftdruckes (B.G. Teubner, 1924), by Ludwig Weickmann and Otto Heinrich Wiener (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Longshore sediment transport rates: a compilation of data. (U.S. Coastal Engineering Research Center, 1971), by M. M. Das (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Oolitic aragonite and quartz sand: laboratory comparison under wave action. (U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, Coastal Engineering Research Center, 1969), by Frederick F Monroe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Waves of sand and snow and the eddies which make them (Open court pub. co., 1914), by Vaughan Cornish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Feasibility study for a surge-action model of Monterey Harbor, California (San Marino, Calif., 1965), by Basil Wrigley Wilson, Robert E. Kilmer, James A. Hendrickson, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, and Science Engineering Associates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recherches sur le mouvement des ondes. (De l'Impr. de Firmin Didot, 1809), by Nicolas-Théodore Brémontier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theory of sound (Macmillan, 1894), by John William Strutt Rayleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die theorie des schalles (F. Vieweg und sohn, 1880), by John William Strutt Rayleigh and Friedrich Neesen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die bewegung der wellen und über den bau am meere und im meere ... (L. Förster, 1839), by A. R. Emy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statistical distribution patterns of ocean waves and of wave induced ship stresses and motions, with engineering applications. (Catholic University of America Press, 1956), by Norman Hans Jasper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Motion, bending moment and shear measurements on a destroyer model in waves (Hoboken? N.J., 1958), by Edward V. Lewis and J. F. Dalzell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theory of sonics. (Proprietors of patents controlling wave transmission, 1920), by George Constantinesco (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Theory of wave transmission; a treatise on transmission of power by vibrations (W. Haddon, 1922), by George Constantinesco (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Waves and ripples in water, air, and aether; being the 76th course of Christmas lectures delivered at the Royal institution of Great Britain (The Sheldon press;, 1923), by J. A. Fleming (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Waves and ripples in water, air, and æther. Being a course of Christmas lectures delivered at the Royal institution of Great Britain (Society for promoting Christian knowledge;, 1902), by J. A. Fleming (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Waves of the sea and other water waves. (T. Fisher Unwin, 1910), by Vaughan Cornish (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Practical methods for observing and forecasting ocean waves by means of wave spectra and statistics (Govt. print. off., 1955), by Willard J Pierson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wave and surge study for the Naval Operating Base, Terminal Island California (The Laboratory, 1945), by California Institute of Technology. Hydraulic Structures Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wind waves at sea, breakers and surf ([U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1947), by Henry Bryant Bigelow and W. T. Edmondson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wave action in relation to engineering structures (Govt. print. off., 1904), by David Du Bose Gaillard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Texas Tower oceanographic observational program : spring and summer 1956 (U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office, 1956), by Quick H Carlson and United States. Hydrographic Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office synoptic and prognostic wave charts (U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office, 1955), by John J Schule and John F Ropek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harbor analog system. Part 1, Waves (U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office, 1961), by A. Lawrence Grabham (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of wave persistence for selected locations in the North Atlantic Ocean, North Sea, and Baltic Sea (Washington, 1963), by John M Kipper and Ellis J. Joseph (page images at HathiTrust)
• Over voortplantings-snelheid van golven in elastische buizen. (Leiden, 1878), by D. J. Korteweg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Waves and ripples in water, air, and aether : being a course of Christmas lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ;, 1912), by J. A. Fleming (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sichtbare und unsichtbare Strahlen ... (B.G. Teubner, 1920), by R. Börnstein and Erich Regener (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sul moto ondoso del mare e su le correnti di esso specialmente su quelle littorali (Tipographia delle belle arti, 1866), by Alessandro Cialdi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weak, nonequilibrium, diffusive waves in a dissociated gas (Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, 1960), by Franklin Kingston Moore and James T. Curtis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stationary wave theory for relativistic plasma oscillations. (Dept. of Physics, University of Colorado, 1961), by Harry S. C. Wang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The damping of waves and other disturbances in mercury (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Standards :, 1917), by Marcus Henry Stillman and United States. National Bureau of Standards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Committee on Waves : appointed by the British Association at Bristol in 1836 [and consisting of Sir John Robison and John Scott Russell] (Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, 1838), by British Association for the Advancement of Science. Committee on Waves, John Robison, and J. Scott Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Wirkungen der Winde auf die Gestaltung der Erde. Ein Streifzug im Gebiete der physikalischen Geographie. (J. Perthes, 1876), by Franciszek Czerny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exponentially decaying pressure pulse moving with superseismic velocity on the surface of a half space of Von Mises elastoplastic material (Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Research and Technology Division, Air Force Systems Command, 1968), by Hans Heinrich Bleich, Paul Weidlinger, and Alva Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Propagation of spherical waves in a weak random medium. (Electrical Engineering Research Laboratory, Engineering Experiment Station, University of Illinois, 1962), by K. C. Yeh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wave structure of the Eady model of baroclinic instability (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ;, 1979), by Jae Min Hyun, William W. Fowlis, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du mouvement des ondes et des travaux hydrauliques maritimes. (Anselin, 1831), by A. R. Emy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Repeatability, accuracy, portability, and errors of the portable alignment gyrocompass system (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1970), by John J. Mihm, Richard A. Murphy, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Electronics Research Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cenni sul moto ondoso del mare e sulle correnti di esso (Tipografia delle Belle Arti, 1856), by Alessandro Cialdi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on waves, made to the meetings of the British Association in 1842-43. (London:, 1845), by John Scott Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Theorie des Schalles (Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1880), by John William Strutt Rayleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Waves and ripples in water, air, and æther. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge;, 1919), by J. A. Fleming (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ueber stehende schwingungen einer flüssigkeit, welche auf einer festen kugel ausgebreit ist. (Verlag von Lipsius & Tischer, 1885), by Eugen Bender (page images at HathiTrust)
• Waves of sand and snow and the eddies which make them (T.F. Unwin [etc, 1914), by Vaughan Cornish (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• General theory of wave-drag reduction for combinations employing quasi-cylindrical bodies with an application to swept-wing and body combinations (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1955), by Jack N. Nielsen, United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and Ames Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of the propagation, refraction, reflection, interference and diffraction of ripple waves (1914), by Walter Andrew Shewhart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A wave tracer (1911), by Ishmael Worth McDowell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In the oceans of water, air & ether (Trübner & Co., 1885), by J. Scott Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diffraction of water waves passing through a breakwater gap (University of California, Library Photographic Service, 1950), by Frank Lee Blue (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The vertical motion of a spheroid in water waves (1959), by J. B. Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Waves in a plasma in a magnetic field (Oak Ridge, Tennessee : United States Atomic Energy Commission, Technical Information Service, 1957., 1957), by Ira B. Bernstein, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. New York Operations Office, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Technical Information Service, and Princeton University. Plasma Physics Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• A feasibility study of a wave-powered device for moving sand ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center, 1967., 1967), by Frederick F. Monroe and Coastal Engineering Research Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tables of the statistical distribution of ocean wave forces and methods of estimating drag and mass coefficients (Washington, D.C. : U. S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center, 1967., 1967), by L. J. Brown, L. E. Borgman, and Coastal Engineering Research Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wind-generated waves for laboratory studies (Fort Belvoir, Virginia : U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center ; Springfield, Virginia : National Technical Information Service, Operations Division, 1976., 1976), by D. Lee Harris and Coastal Engineering Research Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• North Atlantic coast wave statistics : hindcast by Bretschneider-Revised Sverdrup-Munk Method (U.S. Beach Erosion Board, 1954), by Thorndike Saville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Surface waves and offshore structures : the design wave in deep or shallow water, storm tide, and forces on vertical piles and large submerged objects : a technical report (A. & M. College of Texas, Dept. of Oceanography, 1953), by Robert O. Reid, Charles L. Bretschneider, Texas A and M Research Foundation, and Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Department of Oceanography (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Characteristics of waves generated by a local surface disturbance (University of California, Institute of Engineering Research, 1956), by J. E. Prins, Berkeley. Wave Research Laboratory University of California, United States. Office of Naval Research, and Berkeley. Institute of Engineering Research University of California (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wave investigations : [monthly] progress report (Scripps Institution of Oceanography ;, 1945), by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Berkeley. Department of Oceanography University of California, and United States Navy Department Bureau of Ships (page images at HathiTrust)
• An experimental investigation of several techniques for obtaining photographs of waves formed in water channels ([publisher not identified], 1947), by North American Aviation and Donald H. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Long wave profiles over a slope (Berkeley, Calif., 1966), by Ralph Herbert Cross and Robert L. Wiegel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Spectra of low-frequency ocean waves (University of California Press, 1959), by Walter H. Munk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Determination of approximate directional spectra for surface waves. (Berkeley, Calif., 1968), by Yoshimi Suzuki (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Computer solution of wave diffraction by semi-infinite breakwater (Berkeley, Calif., 1967), by Shou-shan Fan, Robert L. Wiegel, and J. E. Cumming (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Waves and their effects on pile-supported structures. (Berkeley, Calif., 1969), by Robert L. Wiegel and Berkeley. Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory University of California (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wave forces on circular piles: tables and graphs (Berkeley, Calif., 1965), by Ralph Herbert Cross and Robert L. Wiegel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Model study of wave and surge action, Naval Operating Base, Terminal Island, San Pedro, California. (Waterways Experiment Station, 1947), by Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• River channel bars and dunes: theory of kinematic waves (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1968), by Walter Basil Langbein and Luna B. Leopold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Water table experiments on transient shock wave diffraction : Part I, operation, instrumentation and preliminary experiments (Hydrodynamics Laboratory, Dept. of Civil and Sanitary Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1954), by Donald R. F. Harleman and Olaf A. Boedtker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bound state wave packets (Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois, 1975), by Carlo U. Segre, Jeremiah D. Sullivan, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Physics (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Project 2.9 (La Jolla, Calif. : Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1955, 1955), by Lewis W Kidd and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Field evaluation/demonstration of a multisegmented dewatering system for accreting beach sand in a high-wave-energy environment (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, 1998), by William R. Curtis, Jack E. Davis, Construction Productivity Advancement Research Program (U.S.), Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station), U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, and United States Army Corps of Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Untersuchungen über das verhalten der fluthwelle in flüssen : Vortrag gehalten vor der jahres-versammlung des D.-A. techniker-verbandes in Boston, Mass., am 4. september 1891. ([Washington, D.C.], 1891), by Ernst August Gieseler (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the detection of "inertial" waves with pycnocline followers (University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, 1970), by Claes Rooth, Walter Düing, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, and United States. Office of Naval Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the difference between waves and turbulence in a stratified fluid (Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts : Air Force Geophysics Laboratories, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1982., 1982), by Edmond M. Dewan and U.S. Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Surface waves in water of variable depth. (The University, 1946), by New York University. Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beach studies in the Cape Cod area : conducted during the period August 1953-April 1960 (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1960), by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and United States. Office of Naval Research. Geography Branch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Channel waves subject chiefly to momentum control ([Washington, 1938), by R. E. Horton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some uniqueness theorems for the reduced wave equation (Washington, D.C. : Mathematics Division, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 1961., 1961), by Leo M. Levine, United States. Air Force. Office of Scientific Research, and New York University. Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Division of Electromagnetic Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kinetic theory of waves in plasmas (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, 1963., 1963), by Ira B. Bernstein, S.K. Trehan, M.P.H. Weenink, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and Princeton University. Plasma Physics Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spectral shifts of truncated sinusoids (L.G. Hansom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, United States Air Force, 1956, 1965), by Kurt Toman and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Air-coupled flexural waves in floating ice (Base Directorate for Geophysical Research, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, 1950), by Frank Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Further study of the "T" phase (Palisades, New York : Lamont Geological Observatory (Columbia University), 1951, 1951), by W. Maurice Ewing, J. Lamar Worzel, Frank Press, and Lamont Geological Observatory (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The propagation of surface waves over the human body (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : United States, Air Force, Wright Air Development Center, 1951., 1951), by Ernst K. Franke, Wolf W. von Wittern, Hans L. Oestreicher, Henning E. von Gierke, and Wright Air Development Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Resonance in the human operator (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Wright Air Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, United States, Air Force, 1951., 1951), by Douglas George Ellson, Lawrence Wheeler, Bloomington Indiana University, Wright Air Development Center, and United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command (page images at HathiTrust)

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