An assessment of global ocean wave energy resources over the last 45 a

ZHENG Chongwei; SHAO Longtan; SHI Wenli; SU Qin; LIN Gang; LI Xunqiang; CHEN Xiaobin

doi:10.1007/s13131-014-0418-5

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ZHENG Chongwei, SHAO Longtan, SHI Wenli, SU Qin, LIN Gang, LI Xunqiang, CHEN Xiaobin. An assessment of global ocean wave energy resources over the last 45 a[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2014, 33(1): 92-101. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0418-5

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ZHENG Chongwei, SHAO Longtan, SHI Wenli, SU Qin, LIN Gang, LI Xunqiang, CHEN Xiaobin. An assessment of global ocean wave energy resources over the last 45 a[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2014, 33(1): 92-101. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0418-5

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An assessment of global ocean wave energy resources over the last 45 a

doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0418-5

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State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis of Industrial Equipments, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116085, China;College of Meteorology and Oceanography, People's Liberation Army University of Science & Technology, Nanjing 211101, China;Meteorological Unit, No. 92538, People's Liberation Army, Dalian 116041, China
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State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis of Industrial Equipments, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116085, China
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College of Meteorology and Oceanography, People's Liberation Army University of Science & Technology, Nanjing 211101, China
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China Ocean Press, Beijing 100081, China
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State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis of Industrial Equipments, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116085, China;Meteorological Unit, No. 92538, People's Liberation Army, Dalian 116041, China
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Meteorological Unit, No. 92538, People's Liberation Army, Dalian 116041, China

Received Date: 2012-10-26
Rev Recd Date: 2013-03-06

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Abstract

Against the background of the currentworld facing an energy crisis, and human beings puzzled by the problems of environment and resources, developing clean energy sources becomes the inevitable choice to deal with a climate change and an energy shortage. A global ocean wave energy resource was reanalyzed by using ERA-40 wave reanalysis data 1957-2002 from European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). An effective significant wave height is defined in the development of wave energy resources (short as effective SWH), and the total potential of wave energy is exploratively calculated. Synthetically considering a wave energy density, a wave energy level probability, the frequency of the effective SWH, the stability and long-termtrend of wave energy density, a swell index and a wave energy storage, global ocean wave energy resources were reanalyzed and regionalized, providing reference to the development of wave energy resources such as wave power plant location, seawater desalination, heating, pumping.
- global ocean,
- wave energy resources,
- effective significant wave height,
- wave energy storage,
- grade division

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