WERA Radial Currents

Background

The WERA high-frequency coastal radar is capable of measuring ocean currents, wave heights, detecting and tracking tsunamis (all types including atmospheric tsunami expression on the ocean), seiches, storm surges and, potentially, oil slicks. More background maybe found on the following included page on HF radar detection:


The WERA Radial Currents data product is a map of radial ocean currents, produced by WERA's onboard algorithms developed by the manufacturer (specifically, Anna Dzvonkovskaya). These data products follow ONC's file naming convention with the file-mode field '-RadialCurrent'. Here is an example animated GIF of 24 hours of data:

Oceans 3.0 API filterdataProductCode=WERARC

Revision History

  1. 20190601: Initial WERA data products released

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Formats

GIF

All WERA image data products are generated by the WERA software. These products are archived as GIF files with only one frame in each file. Data Search and API data product requests will collate multiple files together into animated GIF files, with one GIF file produced per UTC day.

Oceans 3.0 API filter: extension=gif

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