WERA Significant Wave-height

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:

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The WERA Significant Wave-height data product is a map of significant wave-height in the area immediately adjacent to the radar installation. For the WERA installation in Tofino, BC, this data product covers the approaches to popular beaches in the long beach unit of Pacific Rim National Park. All water sport enthusiasts will be stoked to check out these sweet plots! The data product is 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 '-Waves'. Below is an example from a flat day in paradise. Check the live plots on Data Preview to see if conditions improve.

Oceans 3.0 API filter: dataProductCode=WERASWH

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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