Working Group Reports.- * Deep Water Wave Kinematics.- * Shallow Water Wave Kinematics.- * Breaking and Freak Waves.- * Measurement of Wave Kinematics.- * Forces.- Introductory Lectures.- * Stochastic Description of Offshore Environment.- * Deep Water Wave Kinematics Models for Deterministic and Stochastic Analysis of Drag Dominated Structures.- * Theory versus Measurement.- * Effects of Water Wave Kinematics Uncertainty on Design Criteria for Offshore Structures.- Deep Water Wave kinematics.- * Slow Modulation of Weakly Nonlinear Waves.- * Near Surface Irregular Wave Kinematics.- * Practical Wave Modelling.- * Wave Theory Predictions of Crest Kinematics.- * Revision to the UK DEn guidance notes.- * Conditional Simulation of Ocean Wave Kinematics and Comparison with Storm Field Measurements.- * Some Aspects of the Kinematics of Short Waves over Longer Gravity Waves on Deep Water.- * Irregular Water Wave Kinematics.- * Computational Modelling of Velocities and Accelerations in Steep Waves.- * A Viscous Modification to the Oscillatory Motion Beneath a Series of ProgressiveGravity Waves.- Short Contributions.- * Application of Gaussian Wave Packets for Seakeeping Tests of Offshore Structures.- * Determination of the Surface Elevation Probability Distribution of Wind Waves Using Maximum Entropy Principle.- Shallow Water Wave Kinematics.- * Mathematical Modelling of Short Waves in Surf Zone.- * Free and Forced Cross-Shore Long Waves.- * Computation of Nonlinear Wave Kinematics During Propagation and Runup on a Slope.- * Field Observations of Wave-Current Interaction at the Sea Bed.- * Computation of Steep Waves on a Current with Strong Shear Near to the Surface.- Short contributions.- * Kinematics of Flow on Steep Slopes.- * Measurement of the Velocity and Turbulent Fields Generated by the Swell in the Vicinity of Walls or Obstacles 44l.- Breaking and Freak Waves.- * Breaking Waves.- * Computations of Breaking Waves.- * A Comparison of Time-Stepping Numerical Predictions with Whole-Field Flow Measurement in Breaking Waves.- * Transformation Characteristics of Breaking Water Waves.- * Turbulence Generation in a Bore.- * Freak Wave Kinematics.- * Microcomputer Capabilities — Numerical Simulation of a Breaking Wave.- * Frequency Down-Shift Through Self Modulation and Breaking.- * Extreme Waves in Laboratory Generated Irregular Wave Trains.- * Advances in Impulsively Generated Water Waves.- Short contributions.- * Freak Waves: a Possible Explanation.- * Current-Wave Interactions Observed in the Labrador Sea Extreme Waves Experiment.- * Written Discussion on Breaking and Freak Waves.- Measurements.- * Flow Visualization by Vibrating Camera.- Short contributions.- * Measurements of Wave Kinematics in the WADIC Project.- * Measuring the Long Wave Kinematics in the PO-Waves Project.- * Experimental Facility for Progressive Edge Waves.- Forces.- * Morison Type Wave Loading.- * The Loading on a Vertical Cylinder in Random Waves at High Reynolds Numbers.- * Laboratory Waves and Associated Forces.- * A Laboratory Study of the Kinematics and Forcing due to Five Similar Large Waves.- Short contributions.- * Drag and Inertia Loads on Cylinders.- * The Variation of the Wave Reducing Efficiency of Prismatic Fixed Surface Obstacles with Respect to its Dimensions.- * Written Discussion on Forces.- Summary Paper.- * Water Wave Kinematics: State of the Art and Future Research Needs.- Index List.- List of Participants.
