citation: These data were collected and made freely available by the Copernicus project and the programs that contribute to it. Data collected and processed by INTECMAR-Xunta de Galicia in collaboration with Puertos del Estado and Instituto Hidrografico within Observatorio RAIA and MyCoast projects.
summary: The dataset consists of maps of radial and total velocity of the surface current along the Galician coast (North Western Spain) averaged over a time interval of 1 hour around the cardinal hour. HF-RADAR measurements of ocean velocity are representative of the upper 0.3 - 2.5 meters of the ocean. The radar sites are operated according to Quality Assessment procedures and data are processed for Quality Control. Data access tools are compliant to Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Climate and Forecast (CF) convention and INSPIRE directive. The use of netCDF format allows an easy implementation of all the open source services developed by UNIDATA.