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High Resolution Ocean Surface Wave Hindcast (US Wave) Data
The development of this dataset was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Water Power Technologies Office to improve our understanding of the U.S. wave energy resource and to provide critical information for wave energy project development and wave energy converter design. This high resolution publicly available long-term wave hindcast dataset will - when complete - cover the entire U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Available data includes the Hawaiian Islands, West and Atlantic coasts, Atlantic coasts, and Gulf of Mexico/Puerto Rico with future additions including the Freely associated States. The data can be used to investigate the historical record of wave statistics at any U.S. site. As such, the dataset could also be of value to any entity with marine operations inside the U.S. EEZ.
These data are available for download without login credentials through the free and publicly accessible Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI) data viewer which allows users to browse and download individual or groups of files.
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| description | The development of this dataset was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Water Power Technologies Office to improve our understanding of the U.S. wave energy resource and to provide critical information for wave energy project development and wave energy converter design. This high resolution publicly available long-term wave hindcast dataset will - when complete - cover the entire U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Available data includes the Hawaiian Islands, West and Atlantic coasts, Atlantic coasts, and Gulf of Mexico/Puerto Rico with future additions including the Freely associated States. The data can be used to investigate the historical record of wave statistics at any U.S. site. As such, the dataset could also be of value to any entity with marine operations inside the U.S. EEZ. These data are available for download without login credentials through the free and publicly accessible Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI) data viewer which allows users to browse and download individual or groups of files. |
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| DOI | 10.15473/1647329 |
| identifier | https://data.openei.org/submissions/8429 |
| issued | 2020-07-01T06:00:00Z |
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| landingPage | https://mhkdr.openei.org/submissions/326 |
| license | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| modified | 2025-07-11T23:04:05Z |
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| projectLead | Carrie Noonan |
| projectNumber | FY20 AOP 2.1.5.401 |
| projectTitle | Model Validation and Site Characterization |
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| title | High Resolution Ocean Surface Wave Hindcast (US Wave) Data |
