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Foley A.;Kerlin C.;Leahy P.
2012 11th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering, EEEIC 2012 - Conference Proceedings
Offshore wind resource estimation using wave buoy data
2012
July
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Meteorology offshore Wind resource assessment Wind speeds
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In the coming decade installed offshore wind capacity is expected to expand rapidly. This will be both technically and economically challenging. Precise wind resource assessment is one of the more imminent challenges. It is more difficult to assess wind power offshore than onshore due to the paucity of representative wind speed data. Offshore site-specific data is less accessible and is far more costly to collect. However, offshore wind speed data collected from sources such as wave buoys, remote sensing from satellites, national weather ships, and coastal meteorological stations and met masts on barges and platforms may be extrapolated to assess offshore wind power. This study attempts to determine the usefulness of pre-existing offshore wind speed measurements in resource assessment, and presents the results of wind resource estimation in the Atlantic Ocean and in the Irish Sea using data from two offshore meteorological buoys. © 2012 IEEE.
10.1109/EEEIC.2012.6221548
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