TY - JOUR
T1 - Evolution of the USF/CMS Codar and WERA HF Radar Network
AU - Merz, Clifford R.
AU - Weisberg, Robert H.
AU - Liu, Yonggang
PY - 2012/1/1
Y1 - 2012/1/1
N2 - In an effort to improve our understanding on the workings of the coastal ocean for a variety of environmental applications and to improve upon forecasts of storm surge for residents along the West Coast of Florida, the University of South Florida's College of Marine Science (USF/CMS) established a real-time Coastal Ocean Monitoring Prediction System (COMPS) for the West Florida Shelf region. COMPS http://comps.marine.usf.edu program assets consist of arrays of offshore buoys and coastal tidal stations for surface meteorology and in-water measurement of temperature, salinity, and currents, and sea level; along with five High Frequency (HF) radar sites for offshore surface-current velocity field measurements. This paper will discuss the evolution of the USF/CMS HF Radar Network, consisting of three Direction Finding (DF) CODAR long-range SeaSonde HF radars and two Phased Array (PA) WERA systems with one site containing co-located CODAR and WERA systems; the first and only co-located and operational site in America.
AB - In an effort to improve our understanding on the workings of the coastal ocean for a variety of environmental applications and to improve upon forecasts of storm surge for residents along the West Coast of Florida, the University of South Florida's College of Marine Science (USF/CMS) established a real-time Coastal Ocean Monitoring Prediction System (COMPS) for the West Florida Shelf region. COMPS http://comps.marine.usf.edu program assets consist of arrays of offshore buoys and coastal tidal stations for surface meteorology and in-water measurement of temperature, salinity, and currents, and sea level; along with five High Frequency (HF) radar sites for offshore surface-current velocity field measurements. This paper will discuss the evolution of the USF/CMS HF Radar Network, consisting of three Direction Finding (DF) CODAR long-range SeaSonde HF radars and two Phased Array (PA) WERA systems with one site containing co-located CODAR and WERA systems; the first and only co-located and operational site in America.
UR - https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/302
UR - https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2012.6404947
U2 - 10.1109/OCEANS.2012.6404947
DO - 10.1109/OCEANS.2012.6404947
M3 - Article
JO - OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE: Harnessing the Power of the Ocean
JF - OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE: Harnessing the Power of the Ocean
ER -