GEO Global High Frequency Radar Zdenka Willis on

GEO – Global High Frequency Radar Zdenka Willis on behalf of: Hugh Roarty, Lisa Hazard, Jack Harlan - USA Enrique Alvarez-Fanjul - Spain Simone Cosoli - Australia

Its About Surface Currents Direction Finding Radar - Where Am I? - Broad Beam -Compact Antenna -Wave Info Limited CODAR Does not Measure Beam Forming Radar How Fast Am I Going? -Narrow Beam -Large Antenna -Wave Info Easier - WERA

Mesoscale Art – measured by HF Radar

And many take ingenuity to install

Computer Structures 5

Global HF Radar Inventory

Its All About the Data! Alaska Canada Republic of Korea Hawaiian Is. Australia Continental U. S. A. Spain Mexico Puerto Rico and U. S. Virgin Is.

USES of HF Radar Commercial Shipping Search & Rescue Off Shore Energy Circulation Modeling Oil Spill Response Tsunami Criminal Forensics Vessel Detection Harmful Algal Bloom Fcst Fisheries Management

Data Management Standards • Standard for Gridded Velocity Format – Network Common Data Format (Net. CDF) format http: //www. unidata. ucar. edu/software/netcdf/ • Standard Metadata Naming Conventions – Climate Forecast Interoperability http: //www. unidata. ucar. edu/software/netcdf/conventions. html Example can be found at: http: //www. cordc. ucsd. edu/projects/mapping/documents/HFRNet_RTV -Net. CDF. pdf • Standard Distribution Service– THREDDS Data Server (TDS) http: //www. unidata. ucar. edu/software/thredds/current/tds/

Get Involved • Next GEO HR Radar Meeting Sept 2015 – Turkey