The Geophysical Products of HFR
摘要
This chapter presents the main geophysical applications of HFR, based on the main principles developed throughout this book. The most successful and specific application of HFR is the near real-time measurement of hourly surface currents in coastal areas, based on the measurement of radial currents from the shift of the first-order Bragg peaks. Another standard product today is the estimation of ocean wave spectra and global ocean wave parameters. As this involves the second-order Doppler spectra and complex inversion procedures, it is less accurate and more challenging than surface current measurements, and has less spatial coverage than the latter. The last two by-products of HFR are the surface wind vectors and the possible detection of tsunamis, which we will briefly review.