HF Radars for Wave Energy Resource Assessment Offshore NW Spain

Wave energy resource assessment is crucial for the development of marine renewable industry. High-frequency radars (HF radars) have been demonstrated to be a useful wave measuring tool. Therefore, in this work, we evaluated accuracy two CODAR Seasonde HF describing offshore areas west Galician coast, Spain (Vilán and Silleiro capes). The resulting characterization was used estimate electricity production converters. Results were validated against data from buoys numerical models (SIMAR, (Marine Simulation) WaveWatch III). statistical validation revealed that radar cape significantly overestimates power, mainly due large overestimation period. effect radars’ loss during low periods on mean partially compensated with height theoretical electrical converters also affected by these differences. Energy period estimation found highly conditioned unimodal interpretation spectrum, it expected new releases software will able characterize different sea states independently.