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Gonçalves, M., Bernardo, C., Bernardino, M. and Guedes Soares, C. (2023), Climate change impacts on the wave energy in the Azores Islands, Trends in Renewable Energies Offshore, Guedes Soares, C. (Ed.), Taylor and Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 43-52
Spectral boundary conditions from the North Atlantic basin WAVEWATCH III wave model run are used to force a second level nested grid to produce the wave information at the Azores Islands. The simulations are performed for a 25-year period between 1990-2014, using winds and ice-cover data from an RCP8.5 EC-Earth system integration and downscaled with the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF). The annual and seasonal mean wave power is evaluated. To estimate the EC-Earth/WW3 simulations, a comparison between the 1990-2014 simulations and the same 25-year period from ECMWF Reanalysis v5 (ERA5) is performed. Finally, to study the variability of wave energy in a specific location, 6 points are selected along the Azores coast. The wave power is assessed for each point, the monthly variability shows the high values within the winter months.
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