Assessing HF radar data in the New York Harbor: Comparisons with wind, stream gauge and ocean model data sources

Gradone, Joseph; Roarty, Hugh; Evans, Colin; Glenn, Scott; Handel, Ethan; Baskin, Chloe; Dusek, Gregory; Paternostro, Christopher

doi:10.23919/oceans.2015.7401972

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“…PORTS currently serves about one-third of the 175 major seaports in the US. HFR surface current data and tidal current predictions have been available in three PORTS (New York Harbor, Chesapeake Bay and San Francisco Bay) since April 2014 (Gradone et al, 2015). HFR are presently assimilated into the real-time ocean forecast models including DOPPIO (Levin et al, 2021) and an experimental version of NOAA's West Coast Operational Forecast System (WCOFS) (Kurapov et al, 2017, Kurapov et al, 2022.…”

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Real-time quality assurance and quality control for a high frequency radar network

Roarty,

Updyke,

Nazzaro

et al. 2024

Front. Mar. Sci.

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This paper recommends end to end quality assurance methods and quality control tests for High Frequency Radar Networks. We focus on the network that is operated by the Mid Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System (MARACOOS). The network currently consists of 38 radars making real-time measurements of the surface currents over the continental shelf for a variety of applications including search and rescue planning, oil spill trajectory modelling and providing a transport context for marine biodiversity observing networks. MARACOOS has been delivering surface current measurements to the United States Coast Guard (USCG) since May 2009. Data quality is important for all applications; however, since the USCG uses this surface current information to plan life-saving missions, delivery of the best quality data is crucial. We have mapped the components of the HF radar data processing chain onto the data levels presented in the NASA Earth Science Reference Handbook and have applied quality assurance and quality control techniques at each data level to achieve the highest quality data. There are approximately 400 High Frequency radars (HFRs) deployed globally and the presented techniques can provide a foundation for data quality checks and standardization of the data collected by the large number of systems operating today.

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