High Frequency Radar

Key objectives

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. 

The EuroGOOS HFR Task Team is coordinating the European High Frequency Radar Node (HFR Node) as the focal point and operational asset in Europe for HFR data management and dissemination, also promoting networking between EU infrastructures and the Global HFR network. 

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.