The Impact of Reprocessing Efforts on the Mid-Atlantic's Surface Current Product

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System (MARACOOS) has undertaken a reprocessing effort for their 6-kilometer gridded surface current product which utilizes data from the network of long-range High Frequency (HF) radar systems. Radar data from January 2017 to December 2017 have been re-examined and reprocessed. It is worthwhile to consider how errors in the real-time processing may be corrected by reprocessing and what improvements may be realized in the total vector map product by such an effort.