High-frequency radar (HF Radar) is a unique technology mapping ocean surface currents and wave fields (along with other variables) over wide areas with high spatial and temporal resolution. HF Radar is cost-effective, requiring only small manpower and technical costs.
Users of HF Radar technology include meteorology services, search and rescue agencies, governments and regional and local authorities, as well as private companies working in assessment of coastal water quality, renewable energy, or other environmental services.
The EuroGOOS HF Radar Task Team helps coordinate the European activities around the development and use of this coastal technology. The Task Team is providing a European HF Radar operational network delivering data and products for science, environmental management, and operational needs. As all EuroGOOS operational task teams, the HF Radar Task Team plays an important role in identifying research gaps, delivering commong standards and promoting synergy, towards an integrated European Ocean Observing System (EOOS).
The EuroGOOS HF Radar Task Team contributes to improving administrative procedures, promotes scientific synergies and complementarity with other technologies as well as modeling products. The Task Team’s broad network allows sharing success stories and discuss common challenges, to allow a stronger joint progress.
Specifically, the HF Radar Task Team aims to:
- Define data standards and products;
- Define and share the quality assurance and quality control standards;
- Promote research, technology and innovation development;
- Enhance interface between the technology providers and implementers;
- Act as the European operational HF Radar node and develop joint outreach activities.
Newsletters:
- October 2023: Taking the pulse of the coastal ocean – read the EuroGOOS HF Radar community newsletter, October 2023
- August 2022: Taking the pulse of the coastal ocean – read the EuroGOOS HF Radar community newsletter, August 2022
- February 2022: Taking the pulse of the coastal ocean – read the EuroGOOS HF Radar community newsletter, February 2022
- July 2021: Taking the pulse of the coastal ocean – read the EuroGOOS HF Radar community newsletter, July 2021
- February 2021: Taking the pulse of the coastal ocean – read the EuroGOOS HF Radar community newsletter, February 2021
- June 2020: Taking the pulse of the coastal ocean – read the EuroGOOS HF Radar community newsletter, June 2020
List of Members
Co-chair
- Julien Mader, AZTI, Spain
- Lorenzo Corgnati, CNR ISMAR, Italy
Members
- Adam Gauci, Aldo Drago, University of Malta, Malta
- Alejandro Gallego, Barbara Berx, Bill Turrell, Marine Scotland Science, United Kingdom
- Alkiviadis Kalampokis, Vassilis Zervakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
- Ana Konstantinidou, Gerasimos Korres, HCMR, Greece
- Ana Rubio, Lohitzune Solabarrieta, AZTI, Spain
- Anne-Claire Bennis, University of Caen, France
- Anne-Marie Fitzgerald, Joanne Cullinane, Rosemary Lawlor, Met Éireann, Ireland
- Antonio Novellino, ETT, Italy
- Bartolomeo Doronzo, Bernardo Gozzini, Carlo Brandini, Giovanni Ficca, Stefano Taddei, Consorzio LaMMA, Italy
- Begoña Vila, Garbiñe Ayensa, Pedro Montero, Intecmar, Spain
- Bill Turrell, Barbara Berx, Alejandro Gallego, Marine Scotland Science, United Kingdom
- Branko Cermelj, Matjaz Licer, Vlado Malacic, National Institute of Biology, Slovenia
- Bruno Zakardjian, Céline Quentin, Charles-Antoine Guérin, MIO – Univ. of Toulon, France
- Bruce Hackett, Sune Jensen, Kai Christensen, Kjetil Stiansen, Snorre Ronning, Vegar Kristiansen, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway
- Cariou Valérie, Franck Dumas, Stéphanie Louazel, SHOM, France
- Carlos Barrera, Joaquin Brito, Ruben Marrero, PLOCAN, Spain
- Concepción Bueno, Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain
- Carlos Barrera, Ruben Marrero, Joaquin Brito, PLOCAN, Spain
- Charles-Antoine Guérin, Bruno Zakardjian, Céline Quentin, MIO – Univ. of Toulon, France
- Cristina González-Haro, Emili García-Ladona, Joaquim Ballabrea-Poy, Justino Martínez, Lucía Quirós-Collazos, Jordi Isern-Fontanet, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Spain
- Daniel Conley, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
- Enrico Zambianchi, Pierpaolo Falco, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
- Emma Reyes, Guiomar López, Joaquin Tintoré, SOCIB, Spain
- Franck Dumas, Stéphanie Louazel, Cariou Valérie, SHOM, France
- Fulvio Capodici, Giuseppe Ciraolo, University of Palermo, Italy
- Gisbert Breitbach, Jochen Horstmann, Johannes Schulz-Stellenfleth, Marius Cysewski, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany
- Guillaume Charria, Louis Marié, Ifremer, France
- Hezi Gildor, Institute of Earth Sciences, Israel
- Herman Peters, Mando de Jong, Marc Philippart, Rinus Schroevers, Rijkswaterstaat, Netherlands
- Vânia Lima, Instituto Hidrografico, Portugal
- Vânia Lima, Instituto Hidrografico, Portugal
- Joan Esteve, Begoña Vila, Intecmar, Spain
- Jordi Isern-Fontanet, Lucía Quirós-Collazos, Joaquim Ballabrea-Poy, Joaquim Martínez, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Spain
EuroGOOS Facilitation:
- Deniz Karaca, Science Officer
Terms of Reference
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Documents
EU HFRadar Inventory 2016 1.42 MB
Group technical documents (Scientific papers, project deliverables, etc), follow this LINK
HF Radar map (Click on the stations dots for more information)
Map of locations of the 107 HFRs included in the current EuroGOOS Task Team inventory (July 2021). The ongoing systems (69) are plotted in green, future installations (14) in yellow and non-functioning (24) in purple (including historical deployments or currently inactive stations). 45 HFRs are connected to the HFR node (pulsing circles) sending data in near real-time.
