Manual for Real-Time Quality Control of High Frequency Radar Surface Current Data: a Guide to Quality Control and Quality Assurance for High Frequency Radar Surface Current Observations. Version 2.0.

Abstract

The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System® (IOOS®) has a vested interest in collecting high quality data for the 34 core variables (https://ioos.noaa.gov/about/ioos-by-the-numbers) measured on a national scale. In response to this interest, U.S. IOOS continues to establish written, authoritative procedures for the quality control (QC) of real-time data through the Quality Assurance/Quality Control of Real-Time Oceanographic Data (QARTOD) program, addressing each variable as funding permits (UNESCO 1993). This manual update on the real-time QC of high frequency (HF) radar surface currents represents the ninth core variable to be addressed. Other QARTOD guidance documents that have been published by the U.S. IOOS project to date are listed below and are also available at https://ioos.noaa.gov/project/qartod/ - manuals.