FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI A suitable metocean hindcast database for the design of Marine energy converters BT AF BOUDIERE, Edwige MAISONDIEU, Christophe ARDHUIN, Fabrice ACCENSI, Mickael PINEAU-GUILLOU, Lucia LEPESQUEUR, Jeremy AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:1;5:1;6:2; FF 1:PDG-REM-RDT-LCSM;2:PDG-REM-RDT-LCSM;3:PDG-ODE-LOS;4:PDG-ODE-LOS;5:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PHYSED;6:; C1 FREMER, Centre Bretagne - ZI de la Pointe du Diable - CS 10070 - 29280 Plouzané - France CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, UMR6523 CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, UBO, ZI de la Pointe du Diable, CS10070, 29280 Plouzané C2 FREMER, FRANCE CNRS, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-REM-RDT-LCSM PDG-ODE-LOS PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PHYSED PDG-ODE-LPO TC 0 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00164/27524/25710.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;Directional spectra;Hindcast;WAVEWATCH III®;Marine renewable energy AB Resource assessment as well as characterisation of site climatologies for the design of Marine Energy Converters requires data bases allowing an accurate description of the environmental forcing, especially waves and sea-states, on a high resolution grid. As a support to its research activities related to the development of marine renewable energies, Ifremer is building a specific hindcast data set for the assessment of sea-states climatologies. The main features of this database, built running an up-to-date configuration of the WaveWatch III® wave model on an unstructured grid extending from the South of the North Sea to the Bay of Biscay are presented here. Attention is given to the parameterization and forcing as well as the specific output data sets and validation processes. PY 2013 PD DEC SO International Journal of Marine Energy SN 2214-1669 PU Elservier VL 3-4 DI 10.1016/j.ijome.2013.11.010 ID 27524 ER EF