COGOTE: Corrientes y Oleaje en el Golfo de Tehuantepec (Currents and Waves in the Gulf of Tehuantepec)

High Frequency Radio measurements of coastal currents

Principal investigators: Reginaldo Durazo Arvizu, Antonio Martinez, Universitad Autonoma de Baja California; Francisco Ocampo Torres, Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Education Superior de Ensenada; Pierre Flament, University of Hawai'i

Research associates: Federico Velazquez, Xavier Flores-Vidal, Julio Cesar Figueroa Gonzalez, Cedric Chavanne and Derek Young

1. Publications

1. Presentation at the 2006 Asamblea General of the Union Geofisica Mexicana, "Efectos de viento del norte en la dinamica costera del Golfo de Tehuantepec: Observaciones con Radar HF y Resultados Numericos", by Velazquez, Durazo, Martinez, Flament and Chavanne. Click here for the pdf of the presentation, and here for a movie of the surface currents.

2. Data server

raw data, as provided by the real-time acquisition system, can be found here

calibration data, monostatic and bistatic, can be found here

Matlab files with the processed, quality-controlled data can be found here

3. Ongoing analysis

Plots and discussions can be found here.