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HF RADAR - French Riviera (Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography) - hourly surface currents processed in real-time

Hourly High Frequency Radar (HFR) surface current data (ocean surface velocity) from 2 different stations located on the French Mediterranean coast (Toulon), processed in real time.


The total velocity is then reconstructed from the filled radial velocity files, and projected onto a cartesian grid of 1km x 1km.


The HFR data comes from two systems, one monostatic radar PEY (located at Fort Peyras, La Seyne sur mer), and one bistatic POB (receiver located at Cap Bénat - Bormes les Mimosas, and transmitter on Porquerolles Island). The HFR data is initially hourly sampled. The radial velocity are processed by an algorithm of Directional of Arrival Finding with a self-calibration method developed by our laboratory.


HF radar sites :

- Peyras : 43°03'47.4"N, 5°51'40.3"E

- Porquerolles (transmitter only): 42°58'59.0"N, 6°12'15.3"E

- Bénat (receiver only): 43°05'31.5"N, 6°21'26.5"E


EUROPEAN DIRECTORY OF MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH PROJECTS (EDMERP) :

- SICOMAR PLUS(12402), IMPACT(12271), MOOSE(11574), and JERICO NEXT(12227)


EQUIPEMENTS:

- High Frequency Surface Wave radar WERA from HELZEL MESSTECHNIK


PARAMETERS:

- sea surface current


Citation:

- Dylan Dumas, Charles-Antoine Guerin, Self-calibration and antenna grouping for bistatic oceanographic High-Frequency Radars,2020, https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10528

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Date (Publication)
2021-10-27T15:00:00
Citation identifier
http://dataset.osupytheas.fr/geonetwork/srv/resources7d538d6b-dd15-42af-9de7-c9eac27a840d
Purpose

HF radar sea surface current hourly processed in real time

Status
On going
Author
  MIO UMR 7294 CNRS - Charles-Antoine Guérin ( )
Author
  MIO UMR 7294 CNRS - Dylan Dumas
Distributor
  MIO UMR 7294 CNRS - Céline Quentin
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Custodian
  MIO UMR 7294 CNRS - Céline Quentin

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

  • ocean

  • environment

  • geophysical environment

  • spatial distribution

  • in situ

  • data analysis

  • radar

Keywords

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • Ligurian Sea

  • Mediterranean Sea, Western Basin

Theme
  • sea surface current

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License
Use constraints
otherRestictions
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Denominator
5000
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Oceans
  • Environment
Begin date
2019-09-01
End date
2099-12-31
Description

Mediterranean Sea

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Supplemental Information

Toulon

Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Distribution format
  • Relational database SQL ( 1.0 )

Owner
  MIO UMR 7294 CNRS - Anne Molcard
OnLine resource
HF radar web site (Université de Toulon) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

HF radar website with visualization of near real time data

OnLine resource
HF radar hourly processed in near real time ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
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Statement

WERA (Wellen Radar - Helzel Messtechnik GmbH) operated at 16.1-16.2 MHz with 50 kHz bandwidth (3km range resolution) and 8 receiving antennas from 2011 to 2018 on each sites and upgraded to 12 receiving antenna on Benat in 2018 with a better resolution of 1.5 km with 100 KHz of bandwidth.


More details of the installation and acquisition protocols can be found on the real-time dedicated web site http://hfradar.univ-tln.fr/ and in Quentin et al. 2014.7th EuroGOOS Conference Proceedings, Oct 2014, Lisboa, Portugal Buch E, Antoniou Y, Eparkhina D, Nolan G (Eds.) ISBN 978-2-9601883-1-8, pp 111-118.

File identifier
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Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name

dataset

Date stamp
2022-10-06T14:16:43
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Custodian
  OSU Pytheas UMS 3470 CNRS - Maurice Libes ( )
Processor
  MIO UMR 7294 CNRS - Celine Quentin
 
 

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Keywords

sea surface current
GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
data analysis environment geophysical environment in situ ocean radar spatial distribution

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