Data · collection
COastal raDAR (CODAR) at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
CODAR (COastal raDAR), introduced in 1977 at NOAA by D.E.Barrick.
Description
It uses electromagnetic waves of about 10 m length, which interact with ocean waves of 5 m length. As one radar can only measure the radial component of the surface current, a minimum of two HF radars has to be installed.
The systems are set up on the ground close to the sea and have a working range of up to 50 km depending on the salinity of the water and the sea state. Between August 1 and September 2, 2000, the Naval Postgraduate School Department of Oceanography's Radar And Drifter (RAD) Lab collected hourly averages of Codar measurements from three site around Monterey Bay. Surface currents for 328 grid points were computed.
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These currents are the raw, uninterpolated measurements.
Links
Get the data
- CODAR data at MBARI. mbari.org/muse/platforms/codar.htm ↗
download · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214614243-SCIOPS.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214614243-SCIOPS.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Not provided · Ocean Currents · Salinity · Sea Surface Height · Tidal Components · Tidal Currents · Tidal Height · Water Temperature · Wind-Driven Circulation
Provenance · 1 source records, 15 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C1214614243-SCIOPS | 15 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/coastal-processes/tidal-height | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/ocean-circulation/ocean-currents | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/ocean-circulation/wind-driven-circulation | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/ocean-temperature/water-temperature | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/salinity-density/salinity | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/sea-surface-topography/sea-surface-height | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/tides/tidal-components | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/tides/tidal-currents | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-provided | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |