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Extreme Wave Height Events in NW Spain: A Combined Multi-Sensor and Model Approach Open
The Galician coast (NW Spain) is a region that is strongly influenced by the presence of low pressure systems in the mid-Atlantic Ocean and the periodic passage of storms that give rise to severe sea states. Since its wave climate is one o…
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Handbook of Ocean Wave Energy Open
Offshore Engineering; Renewable and Green Energy; Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation; Natural Resource and Energy Economics; Engineering Fluid Dynamics
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Ocean Wave Energy Converters: Status and Challenges Open
Wave energy is substantial as a resource, and its potential to significantly contribute to the existing energy mix has been identified. However, the commercial utilization of wave energy is still very low. This paper reviewed the backgroun…
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How ocean waves rock the Earth: Two mechanisms explain microseisms with periods 3 to 300 s Open
Microseismic activity, recorded everywhere on Earth, is largely due to ocean waves. Recent progress has clearly identified sources of microseisms in the most energetic band, with periods from 3 to 10 s. In contrast, the generation of longe…
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33 years of globally calibrated wave height and wind speed data based on altimeter observations Open
This dataset consists of 33 years (1985 to 2018), of global significant wave height and wind speed obtained from 13 altimeters, namely: GEOSAT , ERS-1 , TOPEX , ERS-2 , GFO , JASON-1 , ENVISAT , JASON-2 , CRYOSAT-2 , HY-2A , SARAL , JASON-…
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Mesoscale resolution capability of altimetry: Present and future Open
Wavenumber spectra of along‐track Sea Surface Height from the most recent satellite radar altimetry missions [Jason‐2, Cryosat‐2, and SARAL/Altika) are used to determine the size of ocean dynamical features observable with the present alti…
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Small‐scale open ocean currents have large effects on wind wave heights Open
Tidal currents and large‐scale oceanic currents are known to modify ocean wave properties, causing extreme sea states that are a hazard to navigation. Recent advances in the understanding and modeling capability of open ocean currents have…
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Review on Power Performance and Efficiency of Wave Energy Converters Open
The level of awareness about ocean wave energy as a viable source of useful energy has been increasing recently. Different concepts and methods have been suggested by many researchers to harvest ocean wave energy. This paper reviews and co…
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Review of control strategies for wave energy conversion systems and their validation: the wave-to-wire approach Open
Ocean waves are a promising source of renewable energy. In this paper, we briefly introduce the characteristics of ocean wave energy and summarize the principles of harvesting ocean energy by wave energy converters. We also review the prot…
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New Observations From the SWIM Radar On-Board CFOSAT: Instrument Validation and Ocean Wave Measurement Assessment Open
This article describes the first results obtained from the Surface Waves Investigation and Monitoring (SWIM) instrument carried by the China France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSAT), which was launched on October 29, 2018. SWIM is a Ku-band …
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Observing Sea States Open
Sea state information is needed for many applications, ranging from safety at sea and on the coast, for which real time data are essential, to planning and design needs for infrastructure that require long time series. The definition of th…
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Wave climate in the Arctic 1992–2014: seasonality and trends Open
Over the past decade, the diminishing Arctic sea ice has impacted the wave field, which depends on the ice-free ocean and wind. This study characterizes the wave climate in the Arctic spanning 1992–2014 from a merged altimeter data set and…
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Observation-Based Source Terms in the Third-Generation Wave Model WAVEWATCH III: Updates and Verification Open
The observation-based source terms available in the third-generation wave model WAVEWATCH III (i.e., the ST6 package for parameterizations of wind input, wave breaking, and swell dissipation terms) are recalibrated and verified against a s…
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A Review of Wave-to-Wire Models for Wave Energy Converters Open
Control of wave energy converters (WECs) has been very often limited to hydrodynamic control to absorb the maximum energy possible from ocean waves. This generally ignores or significantly simplifies the performance of real power take-off …
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Application of neural networks and support vector machine for significant wave height prediction Open
For the purposes of planning and operation of maritime activities, information about wave height dynamics is of great importance. In the paper, real-time prediction of significant wave heights for the following 0.5–5.5 h is provided, using…
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Numerical Modeling of Historical Storm Tides and Waves and Their Interactions Along the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts Open
We apply a coupled circulation‐wave model to simulate extreme sea levels induced by tropical cyclones at the basin scale. We quantify storm tides, surges, waves, and their interactions for historical tropical cyclones (1988–2015) in the we…
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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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Wave hindcast statistics in the seasonally ice-covered Baltic Sea Open
We used six years of wave hindcasts, calculated by the wave model WAM, to compile wave statistics for the Baltic Sea. The wave model was implemented taking into account the special features of the Baltic Sea: irregular coastline, archipela…
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Wind and Wave Climate in the Arctic Ocean as Observed by Altimeters Open
Twenty years (1996–2015) of satellite observations were used to study the climatology and trends of oceanic winds and waves in the Arctic Ocean in the summer season (August–September). The Atlantic-side seas, exposed to the open ocean, hos…
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Wind Speed and Sea State Dependencies of Air‐Sea Gas Transfer: Results From the High Wind Speed Gas Exchange Study (HiWinGS) Open
A variety of physical mechanisms are jointly responsible for facilitating air‐sea gas transfer through turbulent processes at the atmosphere‐ocean interface. The nature and relative importance of these mechanisms evolves with increasing wi…
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Future behavior of wind wave extremes due to climate change Open
Extreme waves will undergo changes in the future when exposed to different climate change scenarios. These changes are evaluated through the analysis of significant wave height (H s ) return values and are also compared with annual mean H …
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The California coastal wave monitoring and prediction system Open
A decade-long effort to estimate nearshore (20 m depth) wave conditions based on offshore buoy observations along the California coast is described. Offshore, deep water directional wave buoys are used to initialize a non-stationary, linea…
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Surface Wave Climatology and Its Variability in the North Indian Ocean Based on ERA-Interim Reanalysis Open
The climate over the north Indian Ocean (NIO) is one of the most dynamic in the world because of seasonally reversing monsoon winds. In this study, the climate of the NIO and the variability of its surface waves using the European Centre f…
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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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An optimized XGBoost-based machine learning method for predicting wave run-up on a sloping beach Open
Accurate and computationally efficient prediction of wave run-up is required to mitigate the impacts of inundation and erosion caused by tides, storm surges, and even tsunami waves. The conventional methods for calculating wave run-up invo…
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Global Wave Height Trends and Variability from New Multimission Satellite Altimeter Products, Reanalyses, and Wave Buoys Open
Long‐term changes in ocean surface waves are relevant to society and climate research. Significant wave height climatologies and trends over 1992–2017 are intercompared in four recent high‐quality global datasets using a consistent methodo…
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Performance Characteristics of “Spotter,” a Newly Developed Real-Time Wave Measurement Buoy Open
The Spotter is a low-cost, real-time, solar-powered wave measurement buoy that was recently developed by Spoondrift Technologies, Inc. (Spoondrift). To evaluate the data quality of the Spotter device, we performed a series of validation ex…
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Measuring currents, ice drift, and waves from space: the Sea surface KInematics Multiscale monitoring (SKIM) concept Open
We propose a satellite mission that uses a near-nadir Ka-band Doppler radar to measure surface currents, ice drift and ocean waves at spatial scales of 40 km and more, with snapshots at least every day for latitudes 75 to 82°, and every fe…
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Ambient seismic wave field Open
The ambient seismic wave field, also known as ambient noise, is excited by oceanic gravity waves primarily. This can be categorized as seismic hum (1-20 mHz), primary microseisms (0.02-0.1 Hz), and secondary microseisms (0.1-1 Hz). Below 2…
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Contribution of Wave Setup to Projected Coastal Sea Level Changes Open
Along open coasts, wind waves are a key driver of coastal changes and can be major contributors to coastal hazards. Wind wave characteristics are projected to change in response to climate change, notably due to changes in atmospheric circ…