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OAS accession Detail for 0202301
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| Title: | Near-real-time surface ocean velocities obtained by High Frequency (HF) radar in coastal waters of North Slope Alaska, Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands, Hawaii and western US during August 2011 (NCEI Accession 0202301) |
| Abstract: | This dataset contains near-real-time ocean surface velocities, also known as total vector velocities, derived from HF radar stations. The velocities are arranged in a horizontal latitude/longitude grid. Measured velocities are indicative of the upper 0.3 - 2.5 meters of the ocean depending on the operating frequency and the vertical velocity profile of the water column. Data files are in netCDF format following the CF (Climate and Forecast) Metadata Conventions. Velocities are reported in CF variables surface_eastward_sea_water_velocity and surface_northward_sea_water_velocity. The National Data Buoy Center in collaboration with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography assembles the data from the Integrated Ocean Observing System Data Assembly Center's Data Stewardship Program and submits the data on a monthly basis to NCEI. Remote sensing of ocean surface velocity from shore-based HF radar sites bridges the operational observational gap between point samples obtained from in-situ sampling and synoptic scale relatively low resolution data obtained from satellites by providing continuous mesoscale coverage at relatively high resolution near the coast. |
| Date received: | 20190912 |
| Start date: | 20110801 |
| End date: | 20110831 |
| Seanames: | Caribbean Sea, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, North Pacific Ocean |
| West boundary: | -160.02705 |
| East boundary: | -67.190467 |
| North boundary: | 71.327383 |
| South boundary: | 18.09995 |
| Observation types: | current measurements - surface currents, physical, time series |
| Instrument types: | radar - high frequency oceanographic |
| Datatypes: | CURRENT SPEED - EAST/WEST COMPONENT (U), CURRENT SPEED - NORTH/SOUTH COMPONENT (V) |
| Submitter: | Petraitis, Dawn |
| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center |
| Collecting institutions: | California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo, CODAR Ocean Sensors, Ltd., Oregon State University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of California - Davis; Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California - San Diego; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California - Santa Barbara, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, University of Puerto Rico; Department of Marine Sciences - Mayaguez, University of Southern California, US Navy; Naval Postgraduate School |
| Contributing projects: | Integrated Ocean Observing System Data Assembly Centers Data Stewardship Program, IOOS |
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| Supplementary information: | Documents about processing HF radar data and other related information are archived in NCEI accession 0126755. |
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| Metadata version: | 2 |
| Keydate: | 2019-09-13 14:10:08+00 |
| Editdate: | 2022-01-09 23:47:06+00 |