Radials for FURA

High-frequency radar measurements of water velocity are radial in direction relative to the radar location and representative of the upper 0.3-2.5 meters of the water.

Data and Resources

Field Value
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instrument OCEAN SURFACE CURRENT RADAR
licence ["The data may be used and redistributed for free but are not intended for legal use, since they may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data Contributor, IOOS, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness, of this information."]
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metadata-language eng
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platform surface_current_radar
platform_name Anasco, Puerto Rico (FURA) HF-radar station
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publisher_country United States of America
publisher_url https://ioos.noaa.gov/project/hf-radar/
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temporal-extent-begin 2025-05-05T13:00:00Z
temporal-extent-end 2026-04-29T06:00:00Z
use-constraints ["The data may be used and redistributed for free but are not intended for legal use, since they may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data Contributor, IOOS, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness, of this information."]
use-limitations ["The data may be used and redistributed for free but are not intended for legal use, since they may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data Contributor, IOOS, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness, of this information."]
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Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • Regional Provider
Tags
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • CKAN
  • GEO
  • GEOSS
  • HF-radar
  • HFR
  • IOOS
  • Oceans
  • Regional
  • UPR
  • bear
  • currents
  • data
  • direction_of_radial_vector_toward_instrument
  • ersc
  • ertc
  • espc
  • etmp
  • head
  • high frequency radar
  • identifier
  • latitude
  • longitude
  • maxv
  • minv
  • radial_sea_water_velocity_toward_instrument
  • radials
  • rnge
  • sprc
  • time
  • time2
  • velo
  • velu
  • velv
  • vflg
  • xdst
  • ydst
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metadata_created 2026-08-21T15:53:23.097936
metadata_modified 2026-08-21T15:53:23.097941
notes High-frequency radar measurements of water velocity are radial in direction relative to the radar location and representative of the upper 0.3-2.5 meters of the water.
num_resources 6
num_tags 37
title Radials for FURA