October 1991 VOLUME 16 NUMBER 4 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Current Measurement

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

GUEST EDITORIAL
Gerald F. Appell and Thomas B. Curtin Guest Editorial 305

SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS
Emyr Roberts, David Last, and Gwyn Roberts Accurate current measurement using drogued buoys employing Decca Navigator and Argos 307
Jimmy C. Larsen Transport measurements from in-service undersea telephone cables 313
James D. Irish, Kenneth E. Morey, Gerald J. Needell, and Jon D. Wood A current meter with intelligent data system, environmental sensors, and data telemetry 319
D. Andrew Trivett, Eugene A. Terray, and Albert J. Williams III Error analysis of an acoustic current meter 329
Nicholas D. Pearson and Michael R. Thomas An instrument to measure seabed boundary-layer processes 338
John W. Loder and James M. Hamilton Degradation of some mechanical current meter measurements by high-frequency mooring or wave motion 343
Daniel E. Frye and W. Brechner Owens Recent developments in ocean data telemetry at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 350
Melora M. Park, Robin C. Singer, Albert J. Plueddemann, and Robert A. Weller High-speed real-time data acquisition for vector measuring current meters 360
Michael Hähnel A note on the use of acoustic Doppler current profilers in mesoscale surveys 368
W. G. Bos A comparison of two Doppler current profilers 374
Clifford L. Trump Single ping ADCP data 382
Gerald F. Appell, Patricia D. Bass, and Michael A. Metcalf Acoustic Doppler current profiler performance in near surface and bottom boundaries 390
Jean-Guy Dessureault, Donald J. Belliveau, and Scott W. Young Design and tests of a trawl-resistant package for an acoustic Doppler current profiler 397
Blair H. Brumley, Ramon G. Cabrera, Kent L. Deines, and Eugene A. Terray Performance of a broad-band acoustic Doppler current profiler 402
Steven E. Bradley, Kent L. Deines, and Francis D. Rowe Acoustic correlation current profiler 408

REGULAR ISSUE PAPERS
Suzanne T. McDaniel Spatial covariance and adaptive beam forming of high-frequency acoustic signals forward scattered from the sea surface 415
François J. Bugnon and Ian A. Whitehouse Acoustic Doppler current meter 420
Kenneth E. Steele and Marshall D. Earle Directional ocean wave spectra using buoy azimuth, pitch, and roll derived from magnetic field components 427

COMMUNICATIONS
Krzysztof Holejko and Jerzy Siuzdak Optoelectronic system for the measurements of ship models trajectory 434