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    • Wave Power Density

    Metadata Updated: May 2, 2025

    The project estimated the naturally available and technically recoverable U.S. wave energy resources, using a 51-month Wavewatch III hindcast database developed especially for this study by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Centers for Environmental Prediction. For total resource estimation, wave power density in terms of kilowatts per meter is aggregated across a unit diameter circle. This approach is fully consistent with accepted global practice and includes the resource made available by the lateral transfer of wave energy along wave crests, which enables densities within a few kilometers of a linear array, even for fixed terminator devices.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date July 19, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date May 2, 2025
    Data Update Frequency irregular

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Energy JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date July 19, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date May 2, 2025
    Publisher National Renewable Energy Laboratory
    Maintainer
    Identifier wave_power_density
    Data First Published 2014-07-30
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2024-08-14T13:38:51.583Z
    Rights true
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency irregular
    Bureau Code 000:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 1423b9fa-64ed-4db3-ba8c-fc29e90ad616
    Harvest Source Id f77dd4c2-ab3d-4bc7-8b3f-2aaa2e411d70
    Harvest Source Title Energy JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.nrel.gov/gis/maps-marine.html
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Program Code 000:000
    Publisher Hierarchy National Renewable Energy Laboratory > National Renewable Energy Laboratory
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 16226d8aff6ebca66aea87855dea54c2c581220d240b39465ee3ac178c4ba1b6
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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