Surface Currents
Project Description
During the open water season, we monitor and record surface currents in the Northeastern Chukchi and Western Beaufort Seas utilizing shore-based High Frequency Radar (HFR) systems. This gives us a near real-time, synoptic picture of surface flow with high spatial and temporal resolution.
Project Funding
AOOS/IOOS, BOEM, CIAP, CIMES, ConocoPhillips Alaska, North Slope Borough, Shell Oil
Company
Start Date: 0000-00-00
End Date: 0000-00-00
Coming soon!
Ying-Chih Fang, T. J. Weingartner, R. A. Potter, P. R. Winsor, and H. Statscewich.
(2015). "Quality Assessment of HF Radar Derived Surface Currents Using Optimal Interpolation".
J. Atmos. Ocean Technol. 32:282-296.
doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-14-00109.1
H. Statscewich, T. Weingartner, S. Danielsen, B. Grunau, G. Egan and J. Timm. (2011).
"A High-Latitude Modular Autonomous Power, Control, and Communication System for Application
to High-Frequency Surface Current Mapping Radars". Marine Technology Society Journal. 45:55-68.
Research Team
Thomas Weingartner
Principal Investigator
Professor Emeritus
Specialties:
- Physical Oceanography
- Physical oceanography of Alaskan continental shelves and slopes.
- Interdisciplinary marine research
- Wind- and buoyancy-forced shelf circulation systems
- Rachel Potter
- Hank Statscewich
- Ying-Chih Fang