Report on the status of HF-radar systems and cabled coastal observatories
The JERICO network is constantly working to improve its core functionality, which is the ability to provide comprehensive observations of Europe’s coastal seas and oceans. This means integrating new, promising observing technologies that can expand its spatial reach. While building the JERICO-NEXT p...
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| Tipo de recurso: | informe técnico |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/417351 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/417351 https://dx.doi.org/10.13155/49828 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Geologia::Oceanografia Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria electrònica::Instrumentació i mesura |
| Sumario: | The JERICO network is constantly working to improve its core functionality, which is the ability to provide comprehensive observations of Europe’s coastal seas and oceans. This means integrating new, promising observing technologies that can expand its spatial reach. While building the JERICO-NEXT project, HF-radar systems and cabled coastal observatories were identified as particularly attractive choices from this point of view, and a distinct task, Task 2.3 in Work Package 2 (WP2), was designed to facilitate their assimilation into the network’s established observing system. High Frequency radar (HF-radar) technology offers the means to gather information on surface currents and sea state over wide areas with relative ease in terms of technical effort, manpower and costs. There are twelve HF-radar sites, operated by five JERICO-NEXT partners, involved in Task 2.3. Together, they constitute 23.5% of the HF-radars currently operating in Europe. Cabled observatories, on the other hand, offer the attractive advantage of freeing marine observing activity from the merciless restrictions of limiting power and constrained bandwidth for communication and data transfer. Such observatories can therefore be used with a broad variety of sensors and systems, and allows measurements to be made even under extreme conditions (e.g., storm events, under ice, etc.). Six such observatories are being operated by JERICO-NEXT partners, all of whom are participating in Task 2.3. Task 2.3 of JERICO-NEXT deals specifically with the harmonization of the two types of observing elements mentioned above within the JERICO infrastructure network. It is divided into two subtasks, one for each kind of technology involved. The present document, constituting Deliverable D2.1 of the JERICO-NEXT project, gathers and reports on the outcomes of the two parts of the first workshop on HF-Radars and Cabled Observatories (MS9) that was planned within the task. From the standpoint of HF-radars, it provides an overview of the state-of-the-art methodologies utilized during the planning and installation phase of HF-radar sites, and reviews the main relevant operational aspects, applications, and quality assessment and data management issues. Additional information concerning the HF-radar event can be found here: http://www.jerico-ri.eu/download/JericoNext-HFR-workshop-Minutes_vf.pdf, and here: http://www.jerico-ri.eu/project-information/meeting-reports/. In the case of Cabled Observatories, the document provides descriptions of such systems and the way they are run, and critically assesses their current level of development from the specific perspective of operations in coastal waters. |
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