CONVERTING ENERGY FROM OCEAN CURRENTS

Global Energy-saving Map of Strong Ocean Currents

This study provides a global, detailed, and complete energy-saving map of strong ocean currents from the absolute geostrophic velocities calculated from satellite altimetry data, with the focus on the strong Western Boundary Currents (WBCs) in the global ocean. Theoretically, the WBCs with speeds of 2–3 knots can reduce fuel consumption by 25–50% for vessels at a sailing speed of 6 knots. The f...

Ocean Currents Modeling along the Iranian Coastline of the Oman Sea and the Northern Indian Ocean

The Makran Coast (Iranian Coastline of the Oman Sea on the Northern Indian Ocean) plays an important role in country’s future navigation and trade due to its accessibility. In 2014, the Iranian Makran coastline was selected by the PMO to be studied as the Phase 6 in the series of Monitoring and Modelling Studies of Iranian Coasts with all disciplines being in investigated including currents. Al...

Automatic Illustration of Ocean Currents

ii This thesis has been examined and approved. Date The box is present here to hide the page number. Nothing in white shows up when printed. iii DEDICATION To Alan Quinn, Anna Quinn and Kate Scheuring for their infinite love and support. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Foremost, I would like to thank Colin Ware for approaching me with an interesting and exciting research topic and for providing the resourc...

Submesoscale currents in the ocean

This article is a perspective on the recently discovered realm of submesoscale currents in the ocean. They are intermediate-scale flow structures in the form of density fronts and filaments, topographic wakes and persistent coherent vortices at the surface and throughout the interior. They are created from mesoscale eddies and strong currents, and they provide a dynamical conduit for energy tra...

Sustainable energy from deep ocean cold seeps