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IOOS National HF Radar Update
Jack HarlanIOOS National HF Radar Project Manager
GCOOS Annual MeetingSeptember 2012Corpus Christi
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- 129 Radar Sites- 129 Radar Sites- 29 Institutions29 Institutions- Redundant National Data Servers- Redundant National Data Servers- Common Data Format- Common Data Format
US IOOS HF Radar Network
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HF Radar Topics
• Radio Frequency Licensing
• 2012 Technical Steering Team Outcomes
• National Projects
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Radio Frequency Licensing
• International approval of IOOS proposal during World Radiocommunication Conference (Geneva Jan-Feb 2012)
• Two technical issues to be resolved:– Call Sign Identifier every 20 minutes– Band sharing and synchronization
• All HF radar frequencies used in US can continue as before (except possibly 8MHz WERA due to objections from S.America)
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National HF Radar Technical Steering Team
• Established Spring 2010• 6 reps elected from all
RCOOSes• Volunteers from Federal
agencies, academia, private sector
• Inaugural Mtg: July 2010• Annual Meeting
• Larry Atkinson (Old Dominion Univ.)
• Don Barrick (Codar)• Bill Birkemeier (US Army Corps of
Engineers)• Pat Burke (NOAA CO-OPS)• Dick Crout (NOAA NDBC)• Pierre Flament (Univ Hawaii)• Scott Glenn (Rutgers Univ)• Ming Ji (NOAA OPC)• Mike Kosro (Oregon St Univ)• Jeff Paduan (NPS)• Rich Patchen (NOAA/CSDL)*• Nick Shay (Univ Miami)• Eric Terrill (Scripps)
*retired
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2012 Steering Team Outcomes
• White Papers posted at ioos.gov/hfradar– HFR-Derived Waves– HFR Operation in Freshwater
• Annual report from Steering Team• Forge relationships with WFOs• Beta testers of new vendor software• Adapt & extend existing network
monitoring tools (underway)• Continue modeling/data assimilation
Tiger Team
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2012 Steering Team Outcomes
• Modeling Testbed FFO– Trajectory tool– HFR data assimilation & modeling
• Recognition of HFR Technicians
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National HF Radar FY13 Projects
• HFR data into AWIPS at WFO’s– NDBC is Technical Lead– IOOS is Programmatic Lead– NWS Office of Science & Technology is
coordinator
• HFR data into PORTS®
– IOOS working with CO-OPS
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GEO Global HF Radar
• Effort to develop & promote HFR– Sharing best practices– Common data formats– Ingest & Display global HFR data– Meshed with NOAA-Korea agreement to
provide data ingest & display of Korean data; to provide best practices exchange with Korea
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Backup Slides
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Specific HF Radar Guidance• This funding will sustain existing systems, ensuring
they have reliable operations and maintenance support, and network-wide investments will continue to improve quality assurance and quality control methods, data management capabilities.
• The funding will also allow for the completion of assessments to prioritize highest priority gaps in coverage.
• HFR will be implemented as a Federal and non-Federal partnership through the Regional Coastal Ocean Observing Systems and Federal operational data centers including the National Data Buoy Center and the U.S. Coast Guard’s Environmental Data Server.
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Specific HF Radar Guidance (cont.)
• Guidance from the Administration is to focus on the existing HFR network and regions of offshore oil production and in the vicinity of major ports and harbors.