Wave energy resources along the Hawaiian Island chain
Abstract
Hawaii is subject to direct approach of swells from distant storms as well as seas generated by trade winds all year round. The island chain creates a localized weather system that modifies the wave energy resources from the far field. Here, we implement a nested computational grid across the major Hawaiian Islands at 3-min resolution in the global WaveWatch3 (WW3) model and utilize the Weather Research Forecast (WRF) model to provide high-resolution mesoscale wind forcing over the Hawaii region. Two hindcast studies representative of the year-round conditions provide a quantitative assessment of the regional wind and wave patterns as well as the wave energy resources along the Hawaiian Island chain. These events of approximately two weeks each have a range of wind speeds, ground swells, and wind waves for validation of the modeling system with satellite and buoy measurements prior to its general application.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)
- Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States); Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (France)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Water Power Technologies Office
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1755925
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG36-08GO18180
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Renewable Energy
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 55; Journal ID: ISSN 0960-1481
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 13 HYDRO ENERGY; Wave energy resource; Hawaii; Spectral wave models; Mesoscale model; Wave atlas; Wave energy; Wave power
Citation Formats
Stopa, Justin E., Filipot, Jean-François, Li, Ning, Cheung, Kwok Fai, Chen, Yi-Leng, and Vega, Luis. Wave energy resources along the Hawaiian Island chain. United States: N. p., 2013.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.renene.2012.12.030.
Stopa, Justin E., Filipot, Jean-François, Li, Ning, Cheung, Kwok Fai, Chen, Yi-Leng, & Vega, Luis. Wave energy resources along the Hawaiian Island chain. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2012.12.030
Stopa, Justin E., Filipot, Jean-François, Li, Ning, Cheung, Kwok Fai, Chen, Yi-Leng, and Vega, Luis. Tue .
"Wave energy resources along the Hawaiian Island chain". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2012.12.030. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1755925.
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title = {Wave energy resources along the Hawaiian Island chain},
author = {Stopa, Justin E. and Filipot, Jean-François and Li, Ning and Cheung, Kwok Fai and Chen, Yi-Leng and Vega, Luis},
abstractNote = {Hawaii is subject to direct approach of swells from distant storms as well as seas generated by trade winds all year round. The island chain creates a localized weather system that modifies the wave energy resources from the far field. Here, we implement a nested computational grid across the major Hawaiian Islands at 3-min resolution in the global WaveWatch3 (WW3) model and utilize the Weather Research Forecast (WRF) model to provide high-resolution mesoscale wind forcing over the Hawaii region. Two hindcast studies representative of the year-round conditions provide a quantitative assessment of the regional wind and wave patterns as well as the wave energy resources along the Hawaiian Island chain. These events of approximately two weeks each have a range of wind speeds, ground swells, and wind waves for validation of the modeling system with satellite and buoy measurements prior to its general application.},
doi = {10.1016/j.renene.2012.12.030},
journal = {Renewable Energy},
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volume = 55,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2013},
month = {Tue Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2013}
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