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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).
Overview
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).
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Open data resources
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- How to use
- To access these resources, reference the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). Learn more
- 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-2
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://wpto-pds-us-wave//
- 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](https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/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-2
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.0/West_Coast//
- 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](https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/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-2
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.0/Hawaii//
- 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](https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/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-2
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.0/Atlantic//
- 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](https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/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-2
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.0/virtual_buoy/West_Coast//
- 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](https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/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-2
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.0/virtual_buoy/Atlantic//
- Description
- [HSDS](https://github.com/NREL/hsds-examples) US Wave domains
- Resource type
- S3 bucket
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-hsds/nrel/US_wave/
- AWS region
- us-west-2
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nrel-pds-hsds/nrel/US_wave//
- Description
- [HSDS](https://github.com/NREL/hsds-examples) US Virtual Buoy domains
- Resource type
- S3 bucket
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-hsds/nrel/US_wave/virtual_buoy/
- AWS region
- us-west-2
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nrel-pds-hsds/nrel/US_wave/virtual_buoy//
- 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](https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/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-2
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.1/Atlantic//
- Description
- 42 Year Wave Hindcast (1979-2020) from select virtual buoys along the Gulf of Mexico and Puerto Rico, with 1-hour temporal resolution and direction wave spectrum data in [HDF5](https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/HDF5) format
- Resource type
- S3 bucket
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:s3:::wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.0/Gulf_of_Mexico_and_Puerto_Rico/
- AWS region
- us-west-2
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.0/Gulf_of_Mexico_and_Puerto_Rico//
- Description
- Updated version of 42 Year Wave Hindcast (1979-2020) for Alaska at 3-hour temporal resolution and down to 200m spatial resolution in [HDF5](https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/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/Alaska/
- AWS region
- us-west-2
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.1/Alaska//
- Description
- Updated version of 42 Year Wave Hindcast (1979-2020) for the West Coast of the United States at 3-hour temporal resolution and down to 200m spatial resolution in [HDF5](https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/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/West_Coast/
- AWS region
- us-west-2
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://wpto-pds-us-wave/v1.0.1/West_Coast//
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DOE's Water Power Technology Office's (WPTO) US Wave dataset was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/wpto-pds-us-wave .
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