DOE's Water Power Technology Office's (WPTO) US Wave dataset
Provided by: National Renewable Energy Laboratory , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
Provided by: National Renewable Energy Laboratory , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
DOE's Water Power Technology Office's (WPTO) US Wave dataset
Provided by: National Renewable Energy Laboratory , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
Provided by: National Renewable Energy Laboratory , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
This product is part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative and contains data sets that are publicly available for anyone to access and use. No subscription is required. Unless specifically stated in the applicable data set documentation, data sets available through the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative are not provided and maintained by AWS.
Description
Released to the public as part of the Department of Energy's Open Energy Data Initiative, this is the highest resolution publicly available long-term wave hindcast dataset that – when complete – will cover the entire U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
How to cite
DOE's Water Power Technology Office's (WPTO) US Wave dataset was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/wpto-pds-us-wave .
Update frequency
As needed
Support information
Managed by: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Contact: Levi.Kilcher@nrel.gov
General AWS Data Exchange support
Resources on AWS
Description
DOE's Water Power Technology Office's Wave Hindcast datasets
Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::wpto-pds-us-wave/AWS Region
us-west-2AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)
aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://wpto-pds-us-wave/Explore
Description
32 Year Wave Hindcast (1979-2010) for the West Coast of the United States at 3-hour temporal resolution and down to 200m spatial resolution in HDF5 format
Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.0/West_Coast/AWS Region
us-west-2AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)
aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.0/West_Coast/Explore
Description
32 Year Wave Hindcast (1979-2010) for the Pacific Ocean around US state of Hawaii at 3-hour temporal resolution and down to 200m spatial resolution in HDF5 format
Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.0/Hawaii/AWS Region
us-west-2AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)
aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.0/Hawaii/Explore
Description
32 Year Wave Hindcast (1979-2010) for the Atlantic Coast of the United States at 3-hour temporal resolution and down to 200m spatial resolution in HDF5 format
Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.0/Atlantic/AWS Region
us-west-2AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)
aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.0/Atlantic/Explore
Description
32 Year Wave Hindcast (1979-2010) from select virtual buoys along the West Coast of the United States with 1-hour temporal resolution and direction wave spectrum data in HDF5 format
Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.0/virtual_buoy/West_Coast/AWS Region
us-west-2AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)
aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.0/virtual_buoy/West_Coast/Explore
Description
32 Year Wave Hindcast (1979-2010) from select virtual buoys along the Atlantic Coast of the United States with 1-hour temporal resolution and direction wave spectrum data in HDF5 format
Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.0/virtual_buoy/Atlantic/AWS Region
us-west-2AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)
aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.0/virtual_buoy/Atlantic/Explore
Description
Updated version of 32 Year Wave Hindcast (1979-2010) for the Atlantic Coast of the United States at 3-hour temporal resolution and down to 200m spatial resolution in HDF5 format. Updates resolve issues with NaNs.
Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.1/Atlantic/AWS Region
us-west-2AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)
aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.1/Atlantic/Explore
Usage examples
Publications
- Development and validation of a high-resolution regional wave hindcast model for U.S. West Coast wave resource characterization by Wu, Wei-Cheng; Wang, Taiping; Yang, Zhaoqing; Garcia Medina, Gabriel
- Development and validation of a regional-scale high-resolution unstructured model for wave energy resource characterization along the US East Coast by Allahdadi, M.N., Gunawan, J. Lai, R. He, V.S. Neary
- High-resolution hindcasts for U.S. wave energy resource characterization by Yang, Z. and V.S. Neary
- High-Resolution Regional Wave Hindcast for the U.S. West Coast by Yang, Zhaoqing; Wu, Wei-Cheng; Wang, Taiping; Castrucci, Luca
- Nearshore wave energy resource characterization along the East Coast of the United States by Ahn, S. V.S. Neary, Allahdadi, N. and R. He
- Predicting ocean waves along the US East Coast during energetic winter storms: sensitivity to whitecapping parameterizations by Allahdadi, M.N., He, R., and Neary, V.S
- SWAN Cycle III version 41.31A by The SWAN team
Tools & Applications
- HSDS Examples by Caleb Phillips, Caroline Draxl, John Readey, Jordan Perr-Sauer, Michael Rossol