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- Title
Year-long buoy-based observations of the air–sea transition zone off the US west coast.
- Authors
Krishnamurthy, Raghavendra; García Medina, Gabriel; Gaudet, Brian; Gustafson Jr., William I.; Kassianov, Evgueni I.; Liu, Jinliang; Newsom, Rob K.; Sheridan, Lindsay M.; Mahon, Alicia M.
- Abstract
Two buoys equipped with Doppler lidars owned by the US Department of Energy (DOE) were deployed off the coast of California in autumn of 2020 by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The buoys collected data for an entire annual cycle at two offshore locations proposed for offshore wind development by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. One of the buoys was deployed approximately 50 km off the coast near Morro Bay in central California in 1100 m of water. The second buoy was deployed approximately 40 km off Humboldt County in northern California in 625 m of water. The buoys provided the first-ever continuous measurements of the air–sea transition zone off the coast of California. The atmospheric and oceanographic characteristics of the area and estimates of annual energy production at both the Morro Bay and Humboldt wind energy areas show that both locations have a high wind energy yield and are prime locations for future floating offshore wind turbines. This article provides a description and comprehensive analysis of the data collected by the buoys, and a final post-processed dataset is uploaded to a data archive maintained by the DOE. Additional analysis was conducted to show the value of the data collected by the DOE buoys. All post-processed data from this study are available on the Wind Data Hub website: https://a2e.energy.gov/data# (last access: 14 September 2023). Near-surface, wave, current, and cloud datasets for Humboldt and Morro Bay are provided at 10.21947/1783807 (Krishnamurthy and Sheridan, 2023b) and 10.21947/1959715 (Krishnamurthy and Sheridan, 2023a), respectively. Lidar datasets for Humboldt and Morro Bay are provided at 10.21947/1783809 (Krishnamurthy and Sheridan, 2023d) and 10.21947/1959721 (Krishnamurthy and Sheridan, 2023c), respectively.
- Subjects
WIND power; DATA libraries; UPLOADING of data; WIND turbines; AUTUMN; COASTS; ENERGY budget (Geophysics)
- Publication
Earth System Science Data, 2023, Vol 15, Issue 12, p5667
- ISSN
1866-3508
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/essd-15-5667-2023