Description and contextualization of the subject

This subject belongs to the first module of REM called Resource and marine environment. It deals with ocean waves and

off-shore wind which are analyzed as geophysical fluids holding an energetic potential. This subject is connected with a

follow-up subject in Nantes.

The objectives are to provide students with:

1. The theoretical knowledge on Fluid Mechanics and Physics to understand the behaviour of wind and ocean waves as

geophysical fluids in nature

2. The capability of evaluating ocean waves potential in any region

3. The capability of evaluating off-shore wind potential in any region

4. An introductory knowledge of the state-of-the-art models(WRF, SWAN)

Learning outcomes of the subject

1. The student will understand what a reanalysis is and will learn to have access and download information from wind and waves public databases



2. The student will be able to manipulate those data and identify tentative locations based upon wind and wave energy potential



3. The student will be able to understand how offshore wind facilities work



4. The student will be able to understand how wave energy facilities work

Ordinary call: orientations and renunciation

GRADING POLICY AND TASKS: the grading system corresponds to "continuous assessment".

Task T1: 100% Resolution of practical hands-on exercises on the contents of the subject.

Students not regularly attending and succesfully solving the T1 sessions will have the opportunity to obtain their grade in the ordinary call.

In the ordinary call the student can be evaluated by the final exam system (by an exercise on 100% of the subject), providing they claim for it to the teacher responsible of the group where they are enroled in.

The request must be forwarded by electronic mail during the 9 first weeks of the year. In this case the structure of the exam will also include practical exercises assocaited to teh content of the subject

A non regular attendance to the T1 sessions and not having requested the final exam will be considered a withdrawal from the ordinary call.

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Extraordinary call: orientations and renunciation

In the extraordinary call, the student has to sit an exam with a grading weight of 100%, just like in the ordinary call.

Not sitting the final exam T1 in the extraordinary call will be considered a withdrawal from that call.

Temary

Lesson 1 The reanalysis concept. Atmospheric and oceanic reanalyses. Data assimilation and algorithms.

Lesson 2 Offshore wind energy evaluation and assessment.

Evaluation and spatial representation of offshore wind energy potential using R and Geographical Information Systems .

Lesson 3 Ocean modelling and ocean wave modelling. Introduction to ocean waves. Directionality, frequencies and

spectra. Practical use of major ocean reanalysis products.Ocean wave energy evaluation and assessment.Practical

evaluation and spatial representation of the wave energy flux using R.

Lesson 4.

A practical analysis of a fully operational wave farm: the case of Mutriku.

Bibliography

Compulsory materials

The slides prepared by the teachers of the subject

Basic bibliography

1. Burton, T., Sharpe, D., Jenkins, N, & Bossanyi, E. (2001). Wind energy handbook. John Wiley & Sons.

2. Crawley, M.J. , 2013. The R Book (2nd Edition) John Wiley & Sons.

3. DeCaria, J.A. and G. E. van Knowe, A First Course in Atmospheric Numerical Modeling. 2014. Sundog Publishing,

Madison, 320 pages.

4. Evensen, Geir, 2009. Data Assimilation. The Ensemble Kalman Filter. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. DOI:

10.1007/978-3-642-03711-5. ISBN: 978-3-642-03710-8.

5. Holthuijsen. L.H. 2007. Waves in Oceanic and Coastal Waters. Cambridge University Press

6. Jacobson, M.Z.Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling, 2nd ed. 2005. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 813

pages

7. Kalnay, E. Atmospheric modeling, data assimilation and predictability, 2002. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,

368 pages.

8. Kämpf, Jochen, 2009. Ocean Modelling for Beginners. Using Open-Source Software. Springer-Verlag Berlin

Heidelberg. ISBN: 978-3-642-00819-1.

9. Kämpf, Jochen, 2010. Advanced Ocean Modelling. Using Open-Source Software. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

ISBN: 978-3-642-10609-5.

10. Lahoz, William, Khattatov, Boris, Menard, Richard, 2010. Data Assimilation. Making Sense of Observations. Springer-

Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN: 978-3-540-74702-4.

11. Manwell, J. F., McGowan, J. G., & Rogers, A. L. (2010). Wind energy explained: theory, design and application. John

Wiley & Sons.

12. Multon, B. 2012. Marine Renewable Energy Handbook. ISTE Ltd John Wiley & Sons.

13. Sarkisyan, Artem S., Sündermann, Jürgen, 2009. Modelling ocean climate variability. Springer Netherlands. ISBN:

978-1-4020-9207-7.

14. Siedler, Gerold, Griffies, Stephen, Gould, John, 2013. Ocean Circulation and Climate. A 21st century perspective.

Academic Press. ISBN: 9780123918512.

15. Stull, R.B., Meteorology for Scientists and Engineers, 2nd ed. 2000. Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning, Pacific Grove,

CA, 520 pages.

16. Twidell, J., & Gaudiosi, G. (Eds.). (2009). Offshore wind power. Multi-Science Publishing Company

In-depth bibliography

1.Stanislaw R. Massel. 2005. Ocean Surface Waves: Their Physics and prediction.



Advance series on Ocean ENgineering vol. 11.



World Scientific Publishing. ISBN: 981-0-216-866



2.Arthur Pecher. Jens Peter Kofoed. 2017.Handbook of ocean wave energy. Springer Open.ISBN: 978-3-319-39888-4.



3.Zhaoqing Yang and Andrea Copping. 2017.Marine Renewable Energy. Resource Characterization and Physical



Effects.Springer. ISBN: 978-3-319-53534-0.



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Journals

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society



Climate Dynamics



Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems



Journal of Geophysical Research



Journal of Oceanic Engineering IEEE



Monthly Weather Review



Ocean Dynamics



Ocean Engineering



Ocean Modelling



Ocean Science



Renewable Energy



Review of Geophysics



Wind Energy



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Links

Direcciones de internet de interés



http://www.reanalyses.org



https://reanalyses.org/ocean/overview-current-reanalyses



http://www.ecmwf.int/en/research/climate-reanalysis



http://www.ecmwf.int/en/research/modelling-and-prediction/marine



http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/



http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/reanalysis/MERRA-2



http://www.nodc.noaa.gov



http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/BUOY/



http://www.ewea.org/



http://icdc.zmaw.de/projekte/easy-init/easy-init-ocean.html



http://marine.copernicus.eu/



http://www.puertos.es/es-es/



http://www.puertos.es/es-es/oceanografia/Paginas/portus.aspx



http://swanmodel.sourceforge.net/