HF radar for port management: Case study in the port of rotterdam

The phased array HF ocean radar installed at the Port of Rotterdam gives good quality near real-time information on surface currents for port management. This paper examines the potential to infer current profiles from HF radar and wind station data using prior knowledge of the site. It is shown tha...

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Published inOCEANS 2016 - Shanghai pp. 1 - 5
Main Authors Heron, M. L., Prytz, A., Gomez, R., Peters, H.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.04.2016
Subjects
Current measurement
current profiles
HF radar
logarithhmic boundary layer
Radar
Sea measurements
Sea surface
surface currents
Surface fitting
Surface waves
wind-driven currents
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Summary:The phased array HF ocean radar installed at the Port of Rotterdam gives good quality near real-time information on surface currents for port management. This paper examines the potential to infer current profiles from HF radar and wind station data using prior knowledge of the site. It is shown that tidal currents follow a logarithmic boundary layer profile, and the wind-driven currents have an approximately exponential profile. These two models are combined to estimate the current profiles.
DOI:10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485362