Naming Authority: Instituto Hidrografico, Puertos del Estado
ID: EUHFR_NRTcurrent_HFR-South-VATR_v3
Documentation:
summary: The data set consists of maps of radial velocity of the sea water surface current collected by the HF radar system operated by Instituto Hidrografico along the southern coasts of Vila Real do Santo Antonio (VATR) site. Data are averaged over a time interval of 1 hour around the cardinal hour. Surface ocean velocities estimated by HF Radar are representative of the upper 0.3-2.5 meters of the ocean. The radar sites are operated according to Quality Assessment procedures, and data are processed for Quality Control and standardized in their format according to the European common data, metadata and QC standard model for HFR current data. Data access tools are compliant to Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Climate and Forecast (CF) convention and INSPIRE directive. The use of netCDF format allows an easy implementation of all the open source services developed by UNIDATA.
citation: Data collected and processed by Instituto Hidrografico and Puertos del Estado within MyCoast, MONIZEE and OCASO projects.
rights: The dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0