Marine radar derived current vector mapping at a planned commercial tidal stream turbine array in the Pentland Firth, U.K.

2014 Oceans - St. John's, OCEANS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  McCann, David L ^a   Bell, Paul S ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Marine renewables; Radar; Tidal current mapping

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; MAPPING; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADAR; SURFACE WATERS; SURFACE WAVES;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; CURRENT VECTORS; MARINE RENEWABLES; SCOTTISH POWER; SEA SURFACE WAVES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TIDAL CURRENTS; TIDAL STREAM TURBINE ARRAYS;

MARINE RADAR;

EID: 84921782462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2014.7003186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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