Authors ' Closure The authors welcome Dr. Stansby's

comments and criticisms of their paper. A few closing comments will now be made. Our apparent misinterpretation of the results in reference [5] was an unfortunate misprint, for which the authors are grateful to Dr. Stansby for pointing out. The statement should have ended "for an aspect ratio LID = 8 " instead of "and aspect ratio." We are acutely aware of the limitations imposed by small aspect ratio cylinders, but saw no alternative which would permit an admittedly incomplete investigation of transcritical shedding patterns. The significant finding that transcritical flow patterns closely parallel subcritical flow patterns (even granted that only two forced end cells were observed) remains valid. To attribute the division of the shedding frequencie