Providing SeaSonde high-resolution surface currents for the America´s Cup

Author

Garfield, Newell ; Hubbard, Max ; Pettigrew, Jim

Author_Institution

Romberg Tiburon Center, San Francisco State Univ., Tiburon, CA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

20-23 March 2011

Firstpage

47

Lastpage

49

Abstract

The selection of San Francisco Bay as the venue for the 2013 America´s Cup competition provides the opportunity to highlight the technology available for measuring surface currents over the entire proposed racecourse and to deliver current estimates in near real-time. Using an array of CODAR Ocean Sensors SeaSonde 42 MHz systems, the currents in Central San Francisco Bay can be mapped in high spatial resolution with a temporal resolution of 30 minutes.

Keywords

oceanographic equipment; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; 2013 America´s Cup competition; CODAR Ocean Sensors SeaSonde systems; San Francisco Bay; SeaSonde array; SeaSonde high resolution surface currents; frequency 42 MHz; real time ocean current estimation; surface current measurement technology; temporal resolution; Arrays; Boats; Continuous wavelet transforms; Current measurement; Radar; Sea surface; Spatial resolution; America´s Cup; HF radar; San Francisco Bay Currents;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Current, Waves and Turbulence Measurements (CWTM), 2011 IEEE/OES 10th

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9285-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CWTM.2011.5759522

Filename

5759522