Proceedings of the IEEE Fifth Working Conference on Current Measurement

Upper Ocean, Boundary Layer, Moving Platform, and Non-Invasive Current Measurments
St. Petersburg Hilton, St. Petersburg, Florida		February 7-9, 1995

Table of Contents

Nontechnical content
Front cover and table of contents
Introduction
Appendices
Data acquisition, telemetry and instrument platforms
Chair(s): N. Brown
Extending and expanding the life of older current meters,  W. J. Strahle and M. A. Martini,  pp. 5-9
An experimental study of vane coupling in price current meters,  Bernard C. Kenney,  pp. 10-14
The nordic WOCE trawl-resistant ADCP system,  Svein Østerhus and Bogi Hansen,  pp. 15-18
Development of a gimbaled ADCP trawl-resistant bottom mount,  Charles H. Robinson and Sean M. Kery,  pp. 19-23
Barotropic flows observed by the towed transport meter,  Thomas B. Sanford, Robert G. Drever, John H. Dunlap, and William E. Johns,  pp. 24-29
Low drag subsurface buoy with integral acoustic doppler current profiler,  Sean Kery and John Foley,  pp. 30-34
ADCP performance
Chair(s): E. Terray
Advances in doppler sonar technology,  Robert Pinkel, Mark Merrifield, Jerome Smith, and Hans Ramm,  pp. 37-41
Aanderaa DCM 12 doppler current meter performance characteristics,  G. F. Appell, J. L. Chapin, and G. W. Bowers,  pp. 43-46
Performance of an acoustic doppler current estimation method based on the symmiktos method,  Thomas L. G. Lagö, Per F. B. Eriksson, and Mikael Åsman,  pp. 47-52
38 KHZ broadband phased array acoustic doppler current profiler,  Xiaolong Yu and Lee Gordon,  pp. 53-57
In-situ comparisons of moored acoustic doppler profilers with conventional VACM and VMCM current meters,  James D. Irish, Albert J. Plueddemann, and Steven J. Lentz,  pp. 59-64
Use of ADCP and S4 electromagnetic current meters at high sampling rates in stratified Scottish coastal waters,  A. Edwards, C. Griffiths, and L. Fernand,  pp. 65-70
ADCP applications
Chair(s): G. Appell
Broadband ADCP measurements of the connecticut river plume front,  C. L. Trump, G. O. Marmorino, and J. O'Donnell,  pp. 73-78
Experiences with vessel borne ADCPs in shallow waters,  M. Kolb,  pp. 79-82
Shelf sea current profile measurements from the sea surface to the sea bed in autumn,  M. J. Howarth and P. D. Glorioso,  pp. 83-89
Deep water current profile measurements for operational support and design statistics,  Andrew N. Moore and Robin V. Stephens,  pp. 90-94
Wind direction from an upward looking ADCP,  L. Zedel, L. Gordon, and G. Crawford,  pp. 95-99
Wavelet transform analyses of non-stationary tidal currents,  D. A. Jay and E. P. Flinchem,  pp. 100-105
Radar remote sensing of currents
Chair(s): S. Anderson
Measurements of upper ocean surface currents with high frequency radar,  D. M. Fernandez, J. F. Vesecky, and C. C. Teague,  pp. 109-114
Mapping surface currents near the gulf stream using the air force over-the-horizon radar,  T. M. Georges and J. A. Harlan,  pp. 115-120
Measurement of net flow through a channel,  M. J. Howarth, A. J. Harrison, P. J. Knight, and R. J. J. Player,  pp. 121-126
Networking multiple HF radar systems with common coverage overlap,  Belinda J. Lipa and Donald E. Barrick,  pp. 127-130
Near-surface current meter array measurements of internal gravity waves,  David D. Mantrom, Holger E. Jones, and David H. Chambers,  pp. 131-136
Surface currents within and offshore of Monterey Bay as mapped by a multiple-site HF radar (CODAR) network,  J. D. Paduan, E. T. Petruncio, D. E. Barrick, and B. J. Lipa,  pp. 137-142
VHF radar measurements of flow patterns in bays and estuaries,  Richard A. Skop, Hans C. Graber, and Duncan B. Ross,  pp. 143-147
Drifters
Chair(s): A. J. Williams III
The determination of slippage of drifters and the leeway of search and rescue targets using InterOcean S4 EMCM,  Arthur A. Allen,  pp. 151-156
Advances in autonomous GPS lagrangian buoys,  Thomas C. Wilson Jr.,  pp. 157-162
Barotropic ocean velocity observations from an electric field float, a modified RAFOS float,  Thomas B. Sanford, Robert G. Drever, and John H. Dunlap,  pp. 163-168
The development and application of GPS drifter for ocean current measurement,  Jian-Hwa Hu, J.-W. You, I.-H. Lee, C.-Y. Huang, and C.-H. Ou,  pp. 169-176
Surface current measurement network using cellular telephone telemetry,  G. F. Chaplin and F. J. Kelly,  pp. 177-180
Boundary layer sensors - performance
Chair(s): E. Terray
The combined velocity-density-vorticity (VDV) sensor: A report on its first use,  A. Trivett, C. Bowers, A. Bowen, J. Snow, and M. Skafel,  pp. 183-187
Open water test of the SonTek acoustic Doppler velocimeter,  Steven Anderson and Atle Lohrmann,  pp. 188-192
A family of acoustic vorticity meters to measure ocean boundary layer shear,  Fredrik T. Thwaites, Albert J. Williams III, Eugene A. Terray, and John H. Trowbridge,  pp. 193-198
Single beam, high resolution pulse-to-pulse coherent Doppler profiler,  L. Zedel, R. Cabrera, A. Lohrmann, and A. Hay,  pp. 199-204
Direct measurements of Reynolds stress with an acoustic Doppler velocimeter,  Atle Lohrmann, Ramon Cabrera, Guy Gelfenbaum, and John Haines,  pp. 205-210
Low cost link for acoustic telemetry,  Paul Pietryka and Gerard F. Chaplin,  pp. 211-215
Linearity and noise in differential travel time acoustic velocity measurement,  Albert J. Williams III,  pp. 216-219
A new technique for detailed acoustic current profiles in the continental shelf wave bottom boundary layer,  Archie T. Morrison III,  pp. 220-225
Boundary layer sensors - applications
Chair(s): S. Anderson
Acoustic current meter for sounding and position instruments,  Vladimir M. Kushnir,  pp. 229-232
Observations of tidal and wind-driven currents, and acoustic backscatter using an acoustic doppler current profiler on a surface-following bouy,  Nick Crisp and Gwyn Griffiths,  pp. 233-240
Data acquisition instrumentation for the study of tidal flat and estuarine physics,  G. F. Chaplin, D. G. Aubrey, and Klaus Ricklefs,  pp. 241-245
Deep sea current measurment with 3-D sing-around acoustic Doppler current meter,  Kyohiko Mitsuzawa, Hiroyasu Momma, and Hiroshi Hotta,  pp. 246-250
Moored current meter data at BBL dynamic structure studies of the North-West Africa shelf and continental slope,  T. A. Demidova and T. B. Tsybaneva,  pp. 251-254
Vertical profiling of the bottom boundary layer,  Vladimir M. Kushnir,  pp. 255-258
Current meter measurements in studies of nearbottom background conditions in vicinity of planned NESTOR neutrino telescope,  T. A. Demidova, A. M. Belyaev, E. A. Kontar, V. K. Ledenev, I. A. Repin, and V. H. Rukol,  pp. 259-264
Moored internal wave measurements near Mascarene Ridge using "POTOK" current meters,  Eugene G. Morozov,  pp. 265-268