Wave energy potential in the Eastern Mediterranean Levantine Basin. An integrated 10-year study

Renewable Energy

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 311-323

  Zodiatis, George ^a   Galanis, George ^a,b   Nikolaidis, Andreas ^a   Kalogeri, Christina ^c   Hayes, Dan ^a   Georgiou, Georgios C ^a   Chu, Peter C ^d   Kallos, George ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b HELLENIC NAVAL ACADEMY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Numerical atmospheric; Wave energy; Wave modeling

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ENERGY RESOURCES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WAVE POWER;

CHARACTERISTICS OF WAVE ENERGIES; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; EXPLORATION/EXPLOITATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL INFORMATION; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE MODELING;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

DATABASE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPLOITATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOLUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE MODELING;

ALEXANDRIA [EGYPT]; CYPRUS BASIN; EGYPT; LEVANTINE SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 84898822598     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.03.051     Document Type: Article

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