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1967: Vol. XLIV, No. 2

On N.F. Kudriancev and E.G. Nikiforov's Article "About the Choice of Effective Constructions of the Measurement Instruments and Their Optimal Parameters for the Measurement of Sea-Currents in the Undulating Water Layer"

Submitted
August 11, 2015
Published
2015-08-05

Abstract

The author first summarizes and then analyses the 1964 paper of Mr. N.F. Kudriancev and Mr. E.G. Nikiforov concerning the construction of current-meters for the measurement of sea-currents. The conclusion reached by Kudriancev and Nikiforov regarding the unfitness of the anemometric current-meters for measuring currents in undulating water is entirely supported by the author of the present article. As far as current-meters of the reversible type are concerned, some inaccuracies have been proved concerning the way they present the field of velocities of undulating water. Consequently current-meters of this type as applied today are not likely to lead to objective results. Finally the present author proposes some lines along which observations of sea-currents should be carried out to attain results approximately representing the actual conditions.