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

    Metadata Updated: January 20, 2025

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

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    Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 20, 2025

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    Harvested from OpenEI data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 20, 2025
    Publisher Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Maintainer
    Doi 10.15473/2203433
    Identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/8074
    Data First Published 2020-12-31T07:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2024-11-18T20:26:12Z
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 019:20
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    Homepage URL https://mhkdr.openei.org/submissions/512
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Program Code 019:009
    Projectlead Bill McShane
    Projectnumber FY23 AOP 2.1.5.601
    Projecttitle Model Validation and Site Characterization for Early Deployment MHK Sites and Establishment of Wave Classification Scheme
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