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 Instituto Hidrografico and Puertos del Estado within MyCoast, MONIZEE and OCASO projects.
summary: The dataset consists of maps of total velocity of the surface current along the Southern coast of Portugal 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.
