Quantifying the global wave power resource

Renewable Energy

Volumn 44, Issue , 2012, Pages 296-304

  Gunn, Kester ^a   Stock Williams, Clym ^a  

^a EON Engineering Ratcliffe on Soar   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Resource assessment; Site finding; Wave; Wave energy; Wave power; Wave resource

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA SETS; ENERGY FLUXES; GLOBAL MARKET; GLOBAL RESOURCES; LARGE-SCALE DEPLOYMENT; MEASURED DATA; PELAMIS; POTENTIAL RESOURCES; POWER RESOURCES; REGIONAL RESOURCES; RESOURCE ASSESSMENTS; SITE FINDING; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS; WAVE ENERGY POTENTIAL; WAVE RESOURCE; WAVEWATCH-III;

ESTIMATION; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVES;

WAVE POWER;

DATA SET; ENERGY FLUX; ENERGY PLANNING; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBALIZATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVE POWER;

PELAMIS;

EID: 84858292283     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.01.101     Document Type: Article

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