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Acoustic instrumentation for obtaining water current velocities over a depth profile evolved by applying range-gating techniques to ship Doppler speed logs (Joyce et al., 1982).However, the errors in navigational position and pitch/roll motions of the vessel limit the accuracy that can be achieved unless compensated for by other sensors (Crocker, 1983). This spurred the development of self-contained acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs), so that by mounting the ADCP on the seabed in an upward-looking configuration such sources of error could be avoided (Pettigrew and Irish, 1983). This development also allowed mounting such instruments on offshore production platforms (Gordon, 1982), and with oblique beam axes as in the CUMEX study (Gordon and Skorstad, 1985).
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Archer, S.J. (1986). The Advantages and Problems of using Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers in Support of Exploration Drilling on the West Shetland Continental Slope. In: Oceanology. Advances in Underwater Technology, Ocean Science and Offshore Engineering, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4205-9_8
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