Wave power potential along the Atlantic coast of the southeastern USA

Renewable Energy

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2197-2205

  Defne, Zafer ^a   Haas, Kevin A ^a   Fritz, Hermann M ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

North Atlantic; USA; Wave energy resource; Wave power

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC COASTS; AVERAGE PERIOD; FLORIDA; GEORGIA; MEAN POWER; MOVING AVERAGE FILTER; NATIONAL DATA BUOY CENTERS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH CAROLINA; POWER POTENTIAL; SEASONAL TRENDS; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SOUTH CAROLINA; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TIME-SCALE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; USA; WAVE DENSITY; WAVE ENERGY RESOURCE; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE PERIOD;

ENERGY RESOURCES; LANDFORMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; WATER WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

WAVE POWER;

DATA BUOY; OFFSHORE APPLICATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE POWER;

ATLANTIC COAST [EUROPE]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED KINGDOM]; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 66149164177     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2009.02.019     Document Type: Article

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