April 1984	VOLUME 9	NUMBER 2	IJOEDY	(ISSN 0364-9059)

 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Simulation and modeling

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
		Front cover and table of contents
		Back cover
GUEST EDITORIAL
Stanley G. Chamberlain		Special issue on simulation and modeling: Guest editorial		61
INVITED PAPERS
William S. Hodgkiss Jr.		An oceanic reverberation model		63
Salvatore D. Morgera and Ravi Sankar		Digital signal processing for precision wide-swath bathymetry		73
Roger F. Dwyer		Use of the kurtosis statistic in the frequency domain as an aid in detecting random signals		85
Richard W. Smith and Ronald S. Peterson		Dynamic and diffusive growth of microbubbles near a two-dimensional hydrofoil		93
INVITED COMMUNICATIONS
William S. Hodgkiss Jr.		Surface projections of array beam patterns		98
PAPERS
Roger G. Pridham, Frank J. Gualtieri Jr., and Charles Kaufman		Data recording and processing for high-resolution frequency analysis		99
James A. Leise		The analysis and digital signal processing of NOAA's surface current mapping system		106
Ivan J. LaHaie, Antonio R. Dias, and George D. Darling		Digital processing considerations for extraction of ocean wave image spectra from raw synthetic aperture radar data		114
BOOK REVIEWS
Robert Cohen		World energy supply		121