Wave and Offshore Wind Resource in the U.S. Pacific Ocean Minor Outlying Islands

Yang, Zhaoqing; Garcia Medina, Gabriel; Liu, Jinliang

doi:10.15473/2203433

Title: Wave and Offshore Wind Resource in the U.S. Pacific Ocean Minor Outlying Islands

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Coastal environments such as islands have unique opportunities for renewable energy resources. This work explores the wave and offshore wind energy potential for the U.S. Pacific Ocean Minor Outlying Islands, including Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island. A numerical wave model based on WAVEWATCH III and SWAN (both are NWS / NOAA models) was developed, validated, and executed to generate a 32-year hindcast dataset suitable for resource characterization for each island. A complementary offshore wind resource characterization is provided for the same time period based on the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Reanalysis v5 (ERA5). Each island has five netcdf files: 1. wave_[island]_annual_J_map.nc: the data used to generate the map of annual averaged omnidirectional wave power (J [kW/m]) 2. wave_[island]_100m_IEC: six IEC parameters at 100m isobath from 1979/01/01 to 2020/12/31, output hourly 3. wave_[island]_5km_IEC: six IEC parameters at 5km from the shoreline 1979/01/01 to 2020/12/31, output hourly 4. wind_island_100mASL_windspeed_timeseries.nc: wind speed timeseries from ERA5 at 100 m above sea level within a 60 km radius of the island (m/s) 1979/01/01 to 2010/12/31, output hourly 5. wind_island_100mASL_winddirection_timeseries.nc: wind direction timeseries from ERA5 at 100 m above sea level within amore »« less

Authors:

Yang, Zhaoqing; Garcia Medina, Gabriel; Liu, Jinliang

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Publication Date:: Thu Dec 31 04:00:00 UTC 2020

Other Number(s):: 512

Research Org.:: Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository (MHKDR); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Water Power Technologies Office (EE-4WP)

Collaborations:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Subject:: 16 TIDAL AND WAVE POWER; Baker Island; ECMWF; ERA5; Howland Island; Jarvis Island; Johnston Atoll; Kingman Reef; Pacific Ocean; Palmyra Atoll; South Pacific; Wake Island; characterization; numerical model; offshore; offshore wind; resource; wave; wave energy; wave height; wind; wind direction; wind speed

OSTI Identifier:: 2203433

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.15473/2203433

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                    Yang, Zhaoqing, Garcia Medina, Gabriel, and Liu, Jinliang. Wave and Offshore Wind Resource in the U.S. Pacific Ocean Minor Outlying Islands.  United States: N. p., 2020. 
        Web.  doi:10.15473/2203433.

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                    Yang, Zhaoqing, Garcia Medina, Gabriel, & Liu, Jinliang. Wave and Offshore Wind Resource in the U.S. Pacific Ocean Minor Outlying Islands.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.15473/2203433

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                    Yang, Zhaoqing, Garcia Medina, Gabriel, and Liu, Jinliang. 2020.  
"Wave and Offshore Wind Resource in the U.S. Pacific Ocean Minor Outlying Islands".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.15473/2203433.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2203433. Pub date:Thu Dec 31 04:00:00 UTC 2020

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  title        = {Wave and Offshore Wind Resource in the U.S. Pacific Ocean Minor Outlying Islands},

  author       = {Yang, Zhaoqing and Garcia Medina, Gabriel and Liu, Jinliang},

  abstractNote = {Coastal environments such as islands have unique opportunities for renewable energy resources. This work explores the wave and offshore wind energy potential for the U.S. Pacific Ocean Minor Outlying Islands, including Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island. A numerical wave model based on WAVEWATCH III and SWAN (both are NWS / NOAA models) was developed, validated, and executed to generate a 32-year hindcast dataset suitable for resource characterization for each island. A complementary offshore wind resource characterization is provided for the same time period based on the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Reanalysis v5 (ERA5). Each island has five netcdf files: 1. wave_[island]_annual_J_map.nc: the data used to generate the map of annual averaged omnidirectional wave power (J [kW/m]) 2. wave_[island]_100m_IEC: six IEC parameters at 100m isobath from 1979/01/01 to 2020/12/31, output hourly 3. wave_[island]_5km_IEC: six IEC parameters at 5km from the shoreline 1979/01/01 to 2020/12/31, output hourly 4. wind_island_100mASL_windspeed_timeseries.nc: wind speed timeseries from ERA5 at 100 m above sea level within a 60 km radius of the island (m/s) 1979/01/01 to 2010/12/31, output hourly 5. wind_island_100mASL_winddirection_timeseries.nc: wind direction timeseries from ERA5 at 100 m above sea level within a 60 km radius of the island (degrees) 1979/01/01 to 2010/12/31, output hourly},

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  year         = {Thu Dec 31 04:00:00 UTC 2020},

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