The Future Northeast Atlantic Wave Energy Potential under Climate Change

This item is made available to you under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 License. The potential changes to the wave energy flux and wave directionality of the Northeast Atlantic region towards the end of the 21st century are examined using a two-grid WAVEWATCH III...

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Main Authors: Janji?, Jelena, Gallagher, Sarah, Dias, Fr?d?ric
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers 2017
Subjects:
International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference (27th : 2017 : San Francisco)
Ocean renewable energy
WAVEWATCHIII
Northeast Atlantic
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2262/82290
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Summary:This item is made available to you under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 License. The potential changes to the wave energy flux and wave directionality of the Northeast Atlantic region towards the end of the 21st century are examined using a two-grid WAVEWATCH III model ensemble, driven by the EC-Earth global climate model under Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. A decrease in the wave energy flux across all seasons and a change in the directionality (mean and peak wave direction) was found, with both clockwise and anticlockwise rotations of up to 10? in some regions of the Northeast Atlantic by the end of the century.

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