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AboutOldThe Radio Oceanography Laboratory - nicknamed radlab, was established by Pierre Flament in 1988, when he joined the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. During its first ten years, the research of the laboratory was focused on studying mesoscale ocean processes, using a combination of satellite-based microwave sensors (synthetic aperture radars, scatterometers and altimeters), infrared and ocean-color sensors, and in-situ measurements using a variety of shipborne, moored and drifting sensors. Attach:tiv_sm.jpg Δ A tropical instability vortex Major experiments included the Tropical Instability Waves Experiment (TIWE), studying mesoscale instabilities straddling the equatorial current system, the Hawaii Lee Currents (HLC) projects, studying the response of the lee of the island chain to wind forcing, large scale current instabilities and tidal forcing, and the Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR-C), studying frontal instabilities at low latitudes. In 1998, the laboratory initiated a new research avenue, acquiring land-based High Frequency Doppler Radio Scatterometers (HFDR), capable of mapping ocean currents to hundreds of kilometers by scattering radio waves from the surface. In the subsequent years, this technique became the core activity of the laboratory, with projects around the world: Hawaii (2002-present), Italy (2002-2004), Philippines (2008-2013), and Mexico in collaboration with the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California (2005-present) Attach:dipaculao_rx.jpg Δ Antenna array in Dipaculao, Philippines |
