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An overview of developments and applications of oceanographic radar networks in Asia and Oceania countries

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More than 110 radar stations are in operation at the present time in Asia and Oceania countries, which is nearly half of all the existing radar stations in the world, for purposes related to marine safety, oil spill response, tsunami warning, coastal zone management and understanding of ocean current dynamics, depending mainly on each country’s coastal sea characteristics. This paper introduces the oceanographic radar networks of Australia, China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, presented at the 1st Ocean Radar Conference for Asia (ORCA) held in May 2012, Seoul, Korea, to share information about the radar network developments and operations, knowledge and experiences of data management, and research activity and application of the radar-derived data of neighbouring countries. We hope this overview paper may contribute as the first step to promotion of regional collaborations in the radar observations and data usages and applications in order to efficiently monitor the coastal and marginal sea waters along the western Pacific Ocean periphery.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, 903-0213, Japan

    Satoshi Fujii

  2. ACORN, TropWATER and AIMS@JCU, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, 4811, Australia

    Malcolm L. Heron & Lucy R. Wyatt

  3. Research Institute of Oceanography, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea

    Kuh Kim

  4. Taiwan Ocean Research Institute, National Applied Research Laboratories, Kaohsiung, 852, Taiwan

    Jian-Wu Lai & Wen-Chang Yang

  5. Department of Oceanography, Kunsan National University, Gunsan, 573-701, Korea

    Sang-Ho Lee

  6. State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China

    Xiangbai Wu

  7. School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Xiongbin Wu

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Fujii, S., Heron, M.L., Kim, K. et al. An overview of developments and applications of oceanographic radar networks in Asia and Oceania countries. Ocean Sci. J. 48, 69–97 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12601-013-0007-0

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