RT Journal Article
T1 HF Radars for Wave Energy Resource Assessment Offshore NW Spain
A1 Basañez Mercader, Ana María
A1 Pérez Muñuzuri, Vicente
K1 HF radar
K1 Wave energy
K1 Wave modeling
K1 Remote sensing
K1 Wave energy converter
K1 Resource characterization
AB Wave energy resource assessment is crucial for the development of the marine renewable industry. High-frequency radars (HF radars) have been demonstrated to be a useful wave measuring tool. Therefore, in this work, we evaluated the accuracy of two CODAR Seasonde HF radars for describing the wave energy resource of two offshore areas in the west Galician coast, Spain (Vilán and Silleiro capes). The resulting wave characterization was used to estimate the electricity production of two wave energy converters. Results were validated against wave data from two buoys and two numerical models (SIMAR, (Marine Simulation) and WaveWatch III). The statistical validation revealed that the radar of Silleiro cape significantly overestimates the wave power, mainly due to a large overestimation of the wave energy period. The effect of the radars’ data loss during low wave energy periods on the mean wave energy is partially compensated with the overestimation of wave height and energy period. The theoretical electrical energy production of the wave energy converters was also affected by these differences. Energy period estimation was found to be highly conditioned to the unimodal interpretation of the wave spectrum, and it is expected that new releases of the radar software will be able to characterize different sea states independently
PB MDPI
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26525
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26525
LA eng
NO Remote Sens. 2021, 13(11), 2070; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13112070
NO This research was funded by INTERREG V-A Spain–Portugal (POCTEP) project RADAR ON RAIA (0461-RADAR ON RAIA-1-E) co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (EU)
DS Minerva
RD 27 abr 2026