October 2000 VOLUME 25 NUMBER 4 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Ocean Current Measurements

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

EDITORIAL
James F. Lynch Editor's corner 421

SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS
Eugene Terray and Al  Plueddemann Guest editorial 422
Clifford L. Trump, Nicholas Allan, and George O. Marmorino Side-looking ADCP and doppler radar measurements across a coastal front 423
Henry Perkins, Federico de Strobel, and Lavinio Gualdesi The Barny Sentinel trawl-resistant ADCP bottom mount: Design, testing, and application 430
Michael R. Simpson and Roger  Bland Methods for accurate estimation of net discharge in a tidal channel 437
David Hurther and Ulrich Lemmin Shear stress statistics and wall similarity analysis in turbulent boundary layers using a high-resolution 3-D ADVP 446
Daniel M. Fernandez, Lorelle A. Meadows, John F. Vesecky, Calvin C. Teague, Jeffrey D. Paduan, and Peter Hansen Surface current measurements by HF radar in freshwater lakes 458
Heinz-Herman Essen, Klaus-Werner Gurgel, and Thomas Schlick On the accuracy of current measurements by means of HF radar 472
Kenneth E. Laws, Daniel M. Fernandez, and Jeffrey D. Paduan Simulation-based evaluations of HF radar ocean current algorithms 481

REGULAR ISSUE PAPERS
Mohsen Badiey, Yongke Mu, Jeffrey A. Simmen, and Steve E. Forsythe Signal variability in shallow-water sound channels 492
Ralph R. Goodman, Jerald  W. Caruthers, Sephen J. Stanic, and Marcia A. Wilson Observation of high-frequency sound propagation in shallow water with bubbles due to storm and surf 501
Stephen J. Stanic, Ralph R. Goodman, Roger W. Meredith, and Edgar Kennedy Measurements of high-frequency shallow-water acoustic phase fluctuations 507
N. Cochard, J. L. Lacoume, P. Arzeliès, and Y. Gabillet Underwater acoustic noise measurement in test tanks 516
Christian Bjerrum-Niese and René Lützen Stochastic simulation of acoustic communication in turbulent shallow water 523
Riccardo Borghi, Gabriella Cincotti, Paola Gori, and Massimo Pappalardo Filtering interpretation of acoustic inverse scattering under coherent and incoherent insonification 533
Chun Ru Wan, Joo Thiam Goh, and Hong Tat Chee Optimal tonal detectors based on the power spectrum 540
T. Gallaudet and Christian P. de Moustier On optimal shading for arrays of irregularly-spaced or noncoplanar elements 553

TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS
Caroline Deltheil, Leandri Didier, Eric Hospital, and Donald P. Brutzman Simulating an optical guidance system for the recovery of an unmanned underwater vehicle 568