October 1983	VOLUME 8	NUMBER 4	IJOEDY	(ISSN 0364-9059)

 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Atlantic remote sensing land ocean experiment (ARSLOE)

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
		Front cover and table of contents
		Back cover
GUEST EDITORIAL
Ledolph Baer and Charles Linwood Vincent		Atlantic remote sensing land ocean experiment (ARSLOE): Overview		201
INVITED PAPERS
Michael W. Szabados and Dinorah C. Esteva		Comparison of offshore wave measurements		206
Richard L. Ribe		Accuracy characteristics of the electronics of waverider buoys used in the ARSLOE		212
Hisashi Mitsuyasu and Tadao Kusaba		Directional wave spectra measured with a cloverleaf buoy during ARSLOE		214
Michael G. Skafel and Mark A. Donelan		Performance of the CCIW wave direction buoy at ARSLOE		221
Belinda J. Lipa and Donald E. Barrick		Least-squares methods for the extraction of surface currents from CODAR crossed-loop data: Application at ARSLOE		226
William G. Grosskopf, David G. Aubrey, Michael G. Mattie, and Martin Mathiesen		Field intercomparison of nearshore directional wave sensors		254
REGULAR ISSUE PAPERS
Adam Zielinski and Narendra K. Saxena		Tsunami detectability using open-ocean bottom pressure fluctuations		272
Lee A. Powell and Timothy K. Stanton		A programmable microcomputer-based sonar echo processor for real-time processing		280
Thomas M. Dauphinee, H. Peter Klein, Chris G. M. Kirby, and Jerry Kathnelson		A portable salinometer based on direct measurement of the conductivity ratio R_{t}		288
Nobuyuki Yoshizawa and Tetsuro Yabuta		Study on submarine cable tension during laying		293
COMMUNICATIONS
A. V. Ivanov		Reply to "Comments on 'On the syntheric aperature radar imaging of ocean surface waves'" by William J. Plant		300
William J. Plant		Comments on "on the synthetic aperture radar imaging of ocean surface waves"		300