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    • High Resolution Ocean Surface Wave Hindcast (US Wave) Data

    Metadata Updated: July 12, 2025

    The development of this dataset was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Water Power Technologies Office to improve our understanding of the U.S. wave energy resource and to provide critical information for wave energy project development and wave energy converter design. This high resolution publicly available long-term wave hindcast dataset will - when complete - cover the entire U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Available data includes the Hawaiian Islands, West and Atlantic coasts, Atlantic coasts, and Gulf of Mexico/Puerto Rico with future additions including the Freely associated States. The data can be used to investigate the historical record of wave statistics at any U.S. site. As such, the dataset could also be of value to any entity with marine operations inside the U.S. EEZ.

    These data are available for download without login credentials through the free and publicly accessible Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI) data viewer which allows users to browse and download individual or groups of files.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date June 6, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date July 12, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from OpenEI data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date June 6, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date July 12, 2025
    Publisher National Renewable Energy Laboratory
    Maintainer
    Doi 10.15473/1647329
    Identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/8429
    Data First Published 2020-07-01T06:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2025-07-11T23:04:05Z
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 019:20
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    Homepage URL https://mhkdr.openei.org/submissions/326
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Program Code 019:009
    Projectlead Carrie Noonan
    Projectnumber FY20 AOP 2.1.5.401
    Projecttitle Model Validation and Site Characterization
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