IOOS National HF Radar Update

Jack HarlanIOOS National HF Radar Project Manager

GCOOS Annual MeetingSeptember 2012Corpus Christi

- 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

HF Radar Topics

• Radio Frequency Licensing

• 2012 Technical Steering Team Outcomes

• National Projects

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)

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

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

2012 Steering Team Outcomes

• Modeling Testbed FFO– Trajectory tool– HFR data assimilation & modeling

• Recognition of HFR Technicians

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

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

Ioos.gov/hfradar

Jack.harlan@noaa.gov

Backup Slides

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.

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.