Reference Site Condition Datasets for Floating Wind Arrays in the United States
Floating offshore wind farm design is highly site-specific, requiring detailed information about the specific conditions of a project area for realistic design studies. Unfortunately, publicly available site condition data for potential floating offshore wind project sites in the United States is scarce. To support U.S. offshore wind research, we developed reference site condition datasets, including metocean and seabed information, for four potential floating wind project areas in the U.S.: Humboldt Bay, Morro Bay, the Gulf of Maine, and the Gulf of Mexico. These datasets were compiled using publicly available data. Our metocean analysis, covering wind, waves, and surface currents, utilized measurement data from 2000 to 2020. Sources included the National Renewable Energy Laboratory?s National Offshore Wind Dataset for wind data, National Data Buoy Center buoys for wave data, and the High Frequency Radar Network for surface currents. These data were integrated into hourly time series used to compute extreme return periods up to 500 years, monthly statistics, and joint probability clusters for fatigue analysis. Soil conditions were evaluated using the usSEABED database and bathymetry grids were interpolated from the NCEI Digital Elevation Model Global Mosaic. Further information on the datasets and how they were created can be found in: Biglu, Michael, Matthew Hall, Ericka Lozon, and Stein Housner. 2024. Reference Site Conditions for Floating Wind Arrays in the United States. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. NREL/TP-5000-89897. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy24osti/89897.pdf The data are also available at: https://github.com/FloatingArrayDesign/SiteConditions The content of each dataset is as follows: _NOW23_wind.txt: Hourly NOW-23 wind data up to a height of 400 meter. _metocean_1hr.txt: Hourly time series including wind, wave, surface current and temperature data. _Summary.xlsx: Metocean data, including extreme values, joint probability distributions and monthly statistics. _usSEABED_soil.csv: Extract of the usSEABED database for this specific site. _bathymetry_200m.txt (and 500m, 1000m): Gridded seabed depth data.
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AB - Floating offshore wind farm design is highly site-specific, requiring detailed information about the specific conditions of a project area for realistic design studies. Unfortunately, publicly available site condition data for potential floating offshore wind project sites in the United States is scarce. To support U.S. offshore wind research, we developed reference site condition datasets, including metocean and seabed information, for four potential floating wind project areas in the U.S.: Humboldt Bay, Morro Bay, the Gulf of Maine, and the Gulf of Mexico. These datasets were compiled using publicly available data. Our metocean analysis, covering wind, waves, and surface currents, utilized measurement data from 2000 to 2020. Sources included the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s National Offshore Wind Dataset for wind data, National Data Buoy Center buoys for wave data, and the High Frequency Radar Network for surface currents. These data were integrated into hourly time series used to compute extreme return periods up to 500 years, monthly statistics, and joint probability clusters for fatigue analysis. Soil conditions were evaluated using the usSEABED database and bathymetry grids were interpolated from the NCEI Digital Elevation Model Global Mosaic. Further information on the datasets and how they were created can be found in: Biglu, Michael, Matthew Hall, Ericka Lozon, and Stein Housner. 2024. Reference Site Conditions for Floating Wind Arrays in the United States. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. NREL/TP-5000-89897. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy24osti/89897.pdf The data are also available at: https://github.com/FloatingArrayDesign/SiteConditions The content of each dataset is as follows: _NOW23_wind.txt: Hourly NOW-23 wind data up to a height of 400 meter. _metocean_1hr.txt: Hourly time series including wind, wave, surface current and temperature data. _Summary.xlsx: Metocean data, including extreme values, joint probability distributions and monthly statistics. _usSEABED_soil.csv: Extract of the usSEABED database for this specific site. _bathymetry_200m.txt (and 500m, 1000m): Gridded seabed depth data.
AU - Biglu
A2 - Hall
A3 - Lozon
A4 - Housner
DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
DO -
KW - Floating offshore wind
KW - Metocean data
KW - Metocean conditions
KW - Soil conditions
KW - Site conditions
KW - Humboldt Bay
KW - Morro Bay
KW - Gulf of Maine
KW - Gulf of Mexico
LA - English
DA - 2024/08/02
PY - 2024
PB - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
T1 - Reference Site Condition Datasets for Floating Wind Arrays in the United States
UR - https://data.openei.org/submissions/8289
ER -
Biglu, et al. Reference Site Condition Datasets for Floating Wind Arrays in the United States. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2 August, 2024, NREL. https://data.nrel.gov/submissions/241.
Biglu, Hall, Lozon, & Housner. (2024). Reference Site Condition Datasets for Floating Wind Arrays in the United States. [Data set]. NREL. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. https://data.nrel.gov/submissions/241
Biglu, Hall, Lozon, and Housner. Reference Site Condition Datasets for Floating Wind Arrays in the United States. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, August, 2, 2024. Distributed by NREL. https://data.nrel.gov/submissions/241
@misc{OEDI_Dataset_8289,
title = {Reference Site Condition Datasets for Floating Wind Arrays in the United States},
author = {Biglu and Hall and Lozon and Housner},
abstractNote = {Floating offshore wind farm design is highly site-specific, requiring detailed information about the specific conditions of a project area for realistic design studies. Unfortunately, publicly available site condition data for potential floating offshore wind project sites in the United States is scarce. To support U.S. offshore wind research, we developed reference site condition datasets, including metocean and seabed information, for four potential floating wind project areas in the U.S.: Humboldt Bay, Morro Bay, the Gulf of Maine, and the Gulf of Mexico. These datasets were compiled using publicly available data.\ Our metocean analysis, covering wind, waves, and surface currents, utilized measurement data from 2000 to 2020. Sources included the National Renewable Energy Laboratory?s National Offshore Wind Dataset for wind data, National Data Buoy Center buoys for wave data, and the High Frequency Radar Network for surface currents. These data were integrated into hourly time series used to compute extreme return periods up to 500 years, monthly statistics, and joint probability clusters for fatigue analysis. Soil conditions were evaluated using the usSEABED database and bathymetry grids were interpolated from the NCEI Digital Elevation Model Global Mosaic.\ Further information on the datasets and how they were created can be found in:\ Biglu, Michael, Matthew Hall, Ericka Lozon, and Stein Housner. 2024. Reference Site Conditions for Floating Wind Arrays in the United States. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. NREL/TP-5000-89897. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy24osti/89897.pdf\ The data are also available at: https://github.com/FloatingArrayDesign/SiteConditions\ The content of each dataset is as follows:\ _NOW23_wind.txt: Hourly NOW-23 wind data up to a height of 400 meter.\ _metocean_1hr.txt: Hourly time series including wind, wave, surface current and temperature data.\ _Summary.xlsx: Metocean data, including extreme values, joint probability distributions and monthly statistics.\ _usSEABED_soil.csv: Extract of the usSEABED database for this specific site.\ _bathymetry_200m.txt (and 500m, 1000m): Gridded seabed depth data.},
url = {https://data.nrel.gov/submissions/241},
year = {2024},
howpublished = {NREL, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, https://data.nrel.gov/submissions/241},
note = {Accessed: 2025-05-03}
}
Details
Data from Aug 2, 2024
Last updated Jan 16, 2025
Submitted Aug 2, 2024
Organization
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Contact
Michael Biglu
Authors
Original Source
https://data.nrel.gov/submissions/241Research Areas
Keywords
Floating offshore wind, Metocean data, Metocean conditions, Soil conditions, Site conditions, Humboldt Bay, Morro Bay, Gulf of Maine, Gulf of MexicoDOE Project Details
Project Name Floating Wind Array Design
Project Number BIL.1.4.3.403