ACKI^IOWLEDGMENTS 



The author thanks the following Naval Oceanographic Office 

 personnel for their assistance: Donald Burns who provided extensive 

 help and many suggestions throughout this study; Louis Banchero, 

 Michael Holland, and Warren Sanborn who placed and successfully 

 recovered the current meter arrays under very difficult working 

 conditions; and Robert Guthrie who provided the time series vector 

 plots and the current speed probability distributions. 



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