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Improving Wind Energy Forecasting through Numerical Weather Prediction Model Development Open
The primary goal of the Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2) is to advance the state-of-the-art of wind energy forecasting in complex terrain. To achieve this goal, a comprehensive 18-month field measurement campaign was conduc…
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Ocean Wind and Wave Measurements Using X-Band Marine Radar: A Comprehensive Review Open
Ocean wind and wave parameters can be measured by in-situ sensors such as anemometers and buoys. Since the 1980s, X-band marine radar has evolved as one of the remote sensing instruments for such purposes since its sea surface images conta…
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CMIP5-based global wave climate projections including the entire Arctic Ocean Open
This study presents simulations of the global ocean wave climate corresponding to the surface winds and sea ice concentrations as simulated by five CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5) climate models for the historical (19…
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Modeling the effect of wave‐vegetation interaction on wave setup Open
Aquatic vegetation in the coastal zone attenuates wave energy and reduces the risk of coastal hazards, e.g., flooding. Besides the attenuation of sea‐swell waves, vegetation may also affect infragravity‐band (IG) waves and wave setup. To d…
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Whitecap Coverage Dependence on Wind and Wave Statistics as Observed during SO GasEx and HiWinGS Open
Concurrent wavefield and turbulent flux measurements acquired during the Southern Ocean (SO) Gas Exchange (GasEx) and the High Wind Speed Gas Exchange Study (HiWinGS) projects permit evaluation of the dependence of the whitecap coverage W …
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Assessment of the Wave Energy in the Black Sea Based on a 15-Year Hindcast with Data Assimilation Open
The principal target of the present work is to assess the wave energy potential in the Black Sea, identifying also some relevant energetic features and possible patterns. A wave prediction system based on the Simulating Waves Nearshore mod…
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Global wave hindcast with Australian and Pacific Island Focus: From past to present Open
Wind‐wave hindcast data have many applications including climatology assessments for renewable energy projects, maritime engineering design, event‐based impact assessments, generating boundary conditions for further downscaling, amongst ot…
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Estimating wave orbital velocity through the azimuth cutoff from space‐borne satellites Open
It has been long accepted that ocean wave conditions recorded from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) aboard satellites resolve large scale swells. SARs make use of its displacement to achieve fine resolution; however the random surface motion…
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Wave‐Related Reynolds Number Parameterizations of CO<sub>2</sub> and DMS Transfer Velocities Open
Predicting future climate hinges on our understanding of and ability to quantify air‐sea gas transfer. The latter relies on parameterizations of the gas transfer velocity k , which represents physical mass transfer mechanisms and is usuall…
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Performance Assessment of ERA5 Wave Data in a Swell Dominated Region Open
The present paper deals with a performance assessment of the ERA5 wave dataset in an ocean basin where local wind waves superimpose on swell waves. The evaluation framework relies on observed wave data collected during a coastal experiment…
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Analysis of the Global Swell and Wind Sea Energy Distribution Using WAVEWATCH III Open
Over the past several decades, an increasing number of studies have focused on the global view of swell and wind sea climate. However, our understanding of wind sea and swell is still incomplete as is the lack of an integrated description …
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Wind wave statistics in Tallinn Bay Open
The wind wave regime of Tallinn Bay, Gulf of Finland, is analysed with the use of a simplified method of long-term computations of wave fields based on a high-resolution nested WAM model and Kalbådagrund (1991–2000) wind data. The distribu…
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A joint evaluation of wave and wind energy resources in the Black Sea based on 20-year hindcast information Open
In this study, a joint evaluation of the wind and wave energy over the Black Sea basin is performed for a 20-year time interval. The importance of such a study is enhanced by the fact that the potential of the wave energy cannot be conside…
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Wind–Wave Modeling: Where We Are, Where to Go Open
We perform a critical analysis of the present approach in wave modeling and of the related results. While acknowledging the good quality of the best present forecasts, we point out the limitations that appear when we focus on the correspon…
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Modeling wind waves from deep to shallow waters in Lake Michigan using unstructured SWAN Open
Accurate wind‐wave simulations are vital for evaluating the impact of waves on coastal dynamics, especially when wave observations are sparse. It has been demonstrated that structured‐grid models have the ability to capture the wave dynami…
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An atmosphere–wave regional coupled model: improving predictions of wave heights and surface winds in the southern North Sea Open
The coupling of models is a commonly used approach when addressing the complex interactions between different components of earth systems. We demonstrate that this approach can result in a reduction of errors in wave forecasting, especiall…
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Correction of ERA5 Wind for Regional Climate Projections of Sea Waves Open
This paper proposes a method to infer the future change in the wind-wave climate using reanalysis wind corrected to statistically match data from a regional climate model (RCM). The method is applied to the sea surface wind speed of the re…
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Assessment of the Joint Development Potential of Wave and Wind Energy in the South China Sea Open
The South China Sea is a major shipping hub between the West Pacific and Indian Oceans. In this region, the demand for energy is enormous, both for residents’ daily lives and for economic development. Wave energy and wind energy are two ma…
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Offshore Wind and Wave Energy Complementarity in the Greek Seas Based on ERA5 Data Open
In this work, 20 years (2000–2019) of ERA5 wave and wind data are analyzed and evaluated for the Greek Seas by means of in-situ measurements derived from the POSEIDON marine monitoring system. Four different statistical measures were used …
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Universality of sea wave growth and its physical roots Open
Assuming resonant nonlinear wave interactions to be the dominant physical mechanism of growing wind-driven seas we propose a concise relationship between instantaneous wave steepness and time or fetch of wave development expressed in dimen…
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A Multimodal Wave Spectrum–Based Approach for Statistical Downscaling of Local Wave Climate Open
Characterization of wave climate by bulk wave parameters is insufficient for many coastal studies, including those focused on assessing coastal hazards and long-term wave climate influences on coastal evolution. This issue is particularly …
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Northern Adriatic meteorological tsunamis: Assessment of their potential through ocean modeling experiments Open
Potential for generation of meteotsunami waves via open ocean resonance has been documented for the shallow northern Adriatic, based on a set of barotropic numerical modeling experiments. Model simulations were forced by a bell‐shaped trav…
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Role of Hurricane Wind Models in Accurate Simulation of Storm Surge and Waves Open
Storm-surge and wave models are routinely used to assess the impact of hurricanes/cyclones for emergency preparedness. Although these models are forced by wind fields, generated by meteorological models in hindcast or forecast mode, select…
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A significant wave height prediction method based on deep learning combining the correlation between wind and wind waves Open
Accurate wave height prediction is significant in ports, energy, fisheries, and other offshore operations. In this study, a regional significant wave height prediction model with a high spatial and temporal resolution is proposed based on …
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New Directional Wave Satellite Observations: Towards Improved Wave Forecasts and Climate Description in Southern Ocean Open
In spite of continuous improvements of ocean wave models in the last decades, large errors still remain in particular under strongly forced conditions, often encountered in the Southern Ocean, where strong westerly winds generate some of t…
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High‐Resolution Ocean Wave and Wind Characteristics Determined by the ICESat‐2 Land Surface Algorithm Open
The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat‐2) is a revolutionary remote sensing tool designed to provide high‐resolution height estimates of the Earth's surface. The photon counting LiDAR instrument onboard collects data over v…
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Review of Wind–Wave Coupling Models for Large-Eddy Simulation of the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer Open
We present a review of existing wind–wave coupling models and parameterizations used for large-eddy simulation of the marine atmospheric boundary layer. The models are classified into two main categories: (i) the wave-phase-averaged, sea s…
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Evaluation of three mainstream numerical weather prediction models with observations from meteorological mast IJmuiden at the North Sea Open
Numerical weather prediction models play an important role in the field of wind energy, for example, in power forecasting, resource assessment, wind farm (wake) simulations, and load assessment. Continuous evaluation of their performance i…
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A new roughness length parameterization accounting for wind–wave (mis)alignment Open
Two-way feedback occurs between offshore wind and waves. However, the influence of the waves on the wind profile remains understudied, in particular the momentum transfer between the sea surface and the atmosphere. Previous studies showed …
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The 3 km Norwegian reanalysis (NORA3) – a validation of offshore wind resources in the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea Open
We validate a new high-resolution (3 km) numerical mesoscale weather simulation for offshore wind power purposes for the time period 2004–2016 for the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea. The 3 km Norwegian reanalysis (NORA3) is a dynamically …