Proceedings of the IEEE Second Working Conference on Current Measurement

Hilton Head Inn and Sea Pines Plantation, Hilton Head, South CarolinaJanuary 19-21, 1982

Table of Contents

Nontechnical content
Front cover and table of contents
Introduction
Appendices
General session
The recent history of ocean current measurement: An underview,  William C. Boicourt,  pp. 9-18
How good are current meter data?,  Melbourne G. Briscoe,  pp. 19-27
Eulerian session
Circulatory survey data quality assurance,  Henry R. Frey,  pp. 31-37
The U.S. naval oceanographic office current measurement program,  Joseph J. Tamul Jr.,  p. 39
Towards quality assessment of near-surface currents measured in continental shelf seas,  Peter G. Collar and Gwyn Griffiths,  pp. 41-46
Ocean current measurement reliability: An engineer's view,  Jerome P. Dean,  pp. 47-50
Measurement of low frequency current from a fixed platform,  R. Lee Gordon,  pp. 51-57
An lntercomparison of current measurements from a Raytheon special moored system and a VACM on Georges Bank,  Bruce A. Magnell,  pp. 59-78
Lagrangian session
Introductory remarks to the Lagrangian session,  J. Michael Hall,  pp. 81-84
Lagrangian studies of subsurface currents in the North Atlantic,  H. Thomas Rossby,  pp. 85-88
An inexpensive drifter for surface currents,  Russ E. Davis,  pp. 89-93
Numerical modelling of drifting buoys and its relevance to Lagrangian tracking,  W. Brett Wilson,  pp. 95-97
Profiling techniques
Velocity profiling: Some expectations and assurances,  Thomas B. Sanford,  pp. 101-112
On estimating the quality of doppler sonar data,  Robert Pinkel,  pp. 113-116
Factors limiting the performance of shipboard doppler acoustic current meters,  Lloyd Regier,  pp. 117-121
Developing techniques
A comparison of near-surface CODAR and VACM measurements in the strait of juan de fuca, August 1978,  James R. Holbrook, A. Shelby Frisch, and Donald E. Barrick,  pp. 125-130
Ocean acoustic tomography: Currents,  Peter F. Worcester and Bruce Cornuelle,  pp. 131-135
Electromagnetic transport measurements of the Florida current,  James C. Larsen,  pp. 137-143
Laser doppler velocimetry on the sea floor,  Yogi C. Agrawal and William E. Terry Jr.,  pp. 145-149
Satellites and current measurement: Caveat emptor,  Robert R. P. Chase,  pp. 151-155
Poster session
Performance test results for the EG&G vector measuring current meter (VMCM),  Thomas N. Mero,  pp. 159-164
Evaluation of a free-fall velocity and CTD profiler, TOPS,  Stanley P. Hayes, Hugh B. Milburn, and Edwin F. Ford,  pp. 165-172
Environmental monitoring for the strategic petroleum reserve, January 1982,  Fred G. Everdale,  pp. 173-185
Remote ocean surface current measurement,  Dale L. Schuler,  pp. 187-189
Doppler shear profiler,  Clifford L. Trump and Robert H. Hill,  pp. 191-195