Uncertainty in wave energy resource assessment. Part 1: Historic data

Renewable Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1792-1808

  Mackay, Edward B L ^a   Bahaj, AbuBakr S ^a   Challenor, Peter G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibration; Hindcast; Numerical wave model; Uncertainty; Wave energy resource

Indexed keywords

ARMA MODEL; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; CONFIDENCE BOUNDS; ENERGY YIELDS; HINDCASTS; HISTORIC DATA; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INTERANNUAL; MARINE ENERGY; MODEL DATA; MULTIPLE FACTORS; NON-LINEAR; NUMERICAL WAVE MODELS; SPECIFIC SITES; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; UNCERTAINTY; WAVE CLIMATES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS; WAVE ENERGY RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; WAVE ENERGY RESOURCES; WAVE MODELS;

CALIBRATION; ENERGY RESOURCES; ERRORS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVE POWER;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HINDCASTING; HISTORICAL RECORD; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE MODELING;

ORKNEY; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77949571508     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2009.10.026     Document Type: Article

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