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Reference Site Condition Datasets for Floating Wind Arrays in the United States
Abstract
Floating offshore wind farm design is highly site-specific, requiring detailed information about the specific conditions of a project area for realistic design studies. Unfortunately, publicly available site condition data for potential floating offshore wind project sites in the United States is scarce. To support U.S. offshore wind research, we developed reference site condition datasets, including metocean and seabed information, for four potential floating wind project areas in the U.S.: Humboldt Bay, Morro Bay, the Gulf of Maine, and the Gulf of Mexico. These datasets were compiled using publicly available data. Our metocean analysis, covering wind, waves, and surface currents, utilized measurement data from 2000 to 2020. Sources included the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s National Offshore Wind Dataset for wind data, National Data Buoy Center buoys for wave data, and the High Frequency Radar Network for surface currents. These data were integrated into hourly time series used to compute extreme return periods up to 500 years, monthly statistics, and joint probability clusters for fatigue analysis. Soil conditions were evaluated using the usSEABED database and bathymetry grids were interpolated from the NCEI Digital Elevation Model Global Mosaic. Further information on the datasets and how they were created can be found in: Biglu,more »
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- National Renewable Energy Laboratory; National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Publication Date:
- Other Number(s):
- BIL.1.4.3.403
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Data (NREL-DATA), Golden, CO (United States); National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Subject:
- 16 TIDAL AND WAVE POWER; 17 WIND ENERGY; Floating offshore wind; Gulf of Maine; Gulf of Mexico; Humboldt Bay; Metocean conditions; Metocean data; Morro Bay; Site conditions; Soil conditions
- OSTI Identifier:
- 2425969
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.7799/2425969
Citation Formats
Biglu, Michael, Hall, Matthew, Lozon, Ericka, and Housner, Stein. Reference Site Condition Datasets for Floating Wind Arrays in the United States. United States: N. p., 2024.
Web. doi:10.7799/2425969.
Biglu, Michael, Hall, Matthew, Lozon, Ericka, & Housner, Stein. Reference Site Condition Datasets for Floating Wind Arrays in the United States. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.7799/2425969
Biglu, Michael, Hall, Matthew, Lozon, Ericka, and Housner, Stein. 2024.
"Reference Site Condition Datasets for Floating Wind Arrays in the United States". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.7799/2425969. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2425969. Pub date:Fri Aug 02 04:00:00 UTC 2024
@article{osti_2425969,
title = {Reference Site Condition Datasets for Floating Wind Arrays in the United States},
author = {Biglu, Michael and Hall, Matthew and Lozon, Ericka and Housner, Stein},
abstractNote = {Floating offshore wind farm design is highly site-specific, requiring detailed information about the specific conditions of a project area for realistic design studies. Unfortunately, publicly available site condition data for potential floating offshore wind project sites in the United States is scarce. To support U.S. offshore wind research, we developed reference site condition datasets, including metocean and seabed information, for four potential floating wind project areas in the U.S.: Humboldt Bay, Morro Bay, the Gulf of Maine, and the Gulf of Mexico. These datasets were compiled using publicly available data. Our metocean analysis, covering wind, waves, and surface currents, utilized measurement data from 2000 to 2020. Sources included the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s National Offshore Wind Dataset for wind data, National Data Buoy Center buoys for wave data, and the High Frequency Radar Network for surface currents. These data were integrated into hourly time series used to compute extreme return periods up to 500 years, monthly statistics, and joint probability clusters for fatigue analysis. Soil conditions were evaluated using the usSEABED database and bathymetry grids were interpolated from the NCEI Digital Elevation Model Global Mosaic. Further information on the datasets and how they were created can be found in: Biglu, M., M. Hall, E. Lozon, S. Housner. 2024. Reference Site Conditions for Floating Wind Arrays in the United States. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). NREL/TP-5000-89897. The data are also available at: https://github.com/FloatingArrayDesign/SiteConditions The content of each dataset is as follows: _NOW23_wind.txt: Hourly NOW-23 wind data up to a height of 400 meter. _metocean_1hr.txt: Hourly time series including wind, wave, surface current and temperature data. _Summary.xlsx: Metocean data, including extreme values, joint probability distributions and monthly statistics. _usSEABED_soil.csv: Extract of the usSEABED database for this specific site. _bathymetry_200m.txt (and 500m, 1000m): Gridded seabed depth data.},
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