5/13/2007

Most everyone in SBARC has probably seen the daily WebCam pictures from Diablo Peak on Santa Cruz Island. This program was initiated with the UCSB Geography Department in conjunction with their on-going weather studies in the central valley.

http://www.diablo.sbarc.org/imageview.cgi

This wireless link from Santa Cruz Island to the mainland has now attracted another task from the UCSB Physics Department. The http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/iog/about/index.phpInterdisciplinary Oceanography Group (IOG) is affiliated with the http://www.icess.ucsb.eduInstitute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS) based at the http://www.ucsb.eduUniversity of California (UCSB). Amateur Radio operators may be interested in this program as it involves HF in the 3-50 MHz band called HF Radar Coastal Ocean Dynamic Application Radar (CODAR).

The participation by SBARC is now in its formative stages under Thorsten von Eicken, of SBARC and Cyril Johnson of UCSB. For more information on this exciting program use the following link:

http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/iog/realtime/index.php

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