HF Radar Measurements of Surface Currents over the Southern New England Shelf

These observations have been underway since June, 2000 at each of 3 sites: (1) Southeast Light, Block Island, Rhode Island, (2) Misquamicut State Beach, Westerly, Rhode Island, and (3) Montauk Point, New York. We use the SeaSonde HF radar manufactured by CODAR Ocean Sensors, Ltd. with funding provided by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP).

Further information on the NOPP funded Front-Resolving Observational Network with Telemetry (FRONT) project as well as access to CODAR surface current maps can be found at the FRONT web site http://nopp.uconn.edu/CODAR/index.html.

A paper utilizing the FRONT CODAR observations to describe the seasonal variability of a coastal jet south of Block Island Sound can be downloaded at http://www.po.gso.uri.edu/~dave/seasonal_variab_wfigs_preprint.pdf.

Another paper using CODAR observations along with concurrent satellite-derived SST and Chlorophyll to estimate the frontogenic tendency in the FRONT region can be accessed at http://www.po.gso.uri.edu/~dave/stegmann_ullman_jgr.pdf.