Accessible Wave Energy Resource Atlas 2005

The Accessible Wave Energy Resource Atlas 2005 describes an initial comparison between several years of hourly wave forecasts (using WAM) on a grid of points located off the Irish coast with corresponding records from a number of buoys installed in recent years. The report contains 31 figures, 43 tables and 127 graphs and was based on the analysis of approximately 51 million individual forecast and recorded values of significant wave height and wave period. The Accessible Wave Energy Resource Atlas dataset contains 24 GIS polygon files including calculations of annual average wave height and period, seasonal/annual mean technical power resource (MW), seasonal/annual mean theoretical wave energy resource (MW per hour), seasonal average power flux (kW) from Pelamis wave energy device and seasonal/annual mean technical energy (GW per hour). The data was collected within the boundary of the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone including the North Atlantic Ocean, Irish Sea, Saint Georges Channel and Celtic Sea. The report and atlas data was published in December 2005. Using Pelamis, a floating wave power converter developed by Ocean Power Delivery Ltd. in Scotland, available in 2005, allowed the mapping of the mean seasonal and annual wave energy potential around Ireland. The atlas was produced with a view to documenting the differing levels of resource that exist around the coast as an aid to policy planning and development and in line with its objective of marine resource development and wealth creation. The Accessible Wave Energy Resource Atlas was commissioned from ESB International (ESBI) by the Marine Institute (MI) in late 2004 with support from Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland (SEAI) and produced in December 2005. The data generated was considered a complete representation of results produced by the wave model.
 
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(2005) . Accessible Wave Energy Resource Atlas 2005. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/1331a14d-6c92-4347-b812-f5434f1aaf19

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Alternate title
Wave Power Atlas
Date ( Creation )
2005-12-31T11:00:00
Date ( Publication )
2005-12-31T11:00:00
Date ( Revision )
2017-12-06T11:00:00
Identifier
INSPIRE UUID / ER.RenewableAndWasteResource.IE.ESBI-SEAI-MI.AccessibleWaveEnergyResourceAtlas.2005 / 1.0
Purpose
The atlas was produced with a view to documenting the differing levels of resource that exist around the coast as an aid to policy planning and development and in line with its objective of marine resource development and wealth creation.
Status
Completed

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Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
GemetInspireTheme ( Theme )
  • Energy resources
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.0.1, 28 Jun 2017 ( Theme )
  • energy, wave energy, non-conventional energy, renewable energy source, renewable raw material, renewable resource
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.0.1, 28 Jun 2017 ( Discipline )
  • oceanography, water science
GEOSS Earth Observation Vocabulary ( Theme )
  • Wave Height, Wave Period, Ocean Waves
British Oceanographic Data Centre - SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary ( Theme )
  • Wave height and period statistics
British Oceanographic Data Centre - IHB Sea Area ( Place )
  • Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, North-East Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, Celtic Sea, Irish Sea and St. George's Channel
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.0.1, 28 Jun 2017 ( Stratum )
  • hydrosphere
Use limitation
Creative Commons licence conditions apply
Use limitation
Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0
Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License
Other constraints
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
50000
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Oceans
  • Environment
  • Economy
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S
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W


Vertical extent

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
0

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Vertical datum

Supplemental Information
Polygon spatial data of estimated values according to Pelamis model predictions.
Reference system identifier
EPSG URI / https://epsg.io/4326

 

Alternate title
EPSG
Date ( Publication )
2009-11-25

Distribution format
  • PDF, Shapefile (7.0, v10.x )

  Distributor

  +353-91-387201 
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Dataset

Conformance result

Alternate title
INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0
Date ( Publication )
2013-12-10
Explanation
The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.
Pass
false

Conformance result

Alternate title
INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation
Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation
Level of conformance with the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Pass
false
Statement
The Accessible Wave Energy Resource Atlas was created from ESBI Pelamis Wave Model using marine datasets ran 2005. More details on the scientific quality and analysis of the data is available from the downloadable report released with the atlas.

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1331a14d-6c92-4347-b812-f5434f1aaf19   XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2018-01-25T15:24:22
Metadata standard name
ISDI Metadata Profile
Metadata standard version
1.2

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