UM/RSMAS HF Radar operations - Public Data Archive

Personnel

Dr. Lynn K. Shay
Dr. Brian K. Haus
Jorge Martinez-Pedraja
Jodi K. Brewster

HF Radar Information

WERA NEW DIMENSION

Background Information

Miami Herald Article - 4/3/05

NOAA Coral Health and Monitoring Letter

Current Operations

East Florida Shelf WERA deployment

Map of radar coverage
Data archive and Animations
Raw data can be found in data/efs/ (Password required)
"High Frequency Radar Mapping of Surface Currents Using WERA" by Lynn K. Shay, Jorge Martinez-Pedraja, Thomas M. Cook, Brian K. Haus and Robert H. Weisberg.
"HF radar observations of small-scale surface current variability in the Straits of Florida" by A. B. Parks, L. K. Shay, W. E. Johns, J. Martinez-Pedraja and K.-W. Gurgel
"Surface current effects on the fetch-limited growth of wave energy" by Brian K. Haus

Previous Deployments

West Florida Shelf WERA deployment (Aug 24 to Sep 26 2003):

Introduction
Locations and percent return:wfs_map.gif
Individual post-processed maps available in wfs/maps/
Raw data are offline.

NRL OSCR deployment (April - June 2001):

Data Report: Very-High Frequency Surface Current Measurement Along the Inshore Boundary of the Florida Current During NRL 2001 by Jorge Marinez-Pedraja, Lynn K. Shay, Thomas M. Cook and Brian K. Haus.


Eastern Florida Shelf Data Archive
Today is: May 05 2025 09:01 GMT (Yearday 125) Latest Available data: May 05 2025 08:00 GMT
WERA EFSN Vector Current Data for May 03 2025 04:00 GMT (20251230400)
Surface Current Map Longitude/Time section at 25.8N

Date:

Lastday View

Inshore Zoom

Accuracy

Data File (netCDF)

Data File (ASCII)

Last 24hr animation

Please email jmartinez@rsmas.miami.edu with any questions or comments.