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