Title :

One year of measurements in Alderney Race: preliminary results from database analysis

Author(s) :

Furgerot, Lucille [Auteur]
Laboratoire Universitaire des Sciences Appliquées de Cherbourg [LUSAC]
Sentchev, Alexei [Auteur]
Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences (LOG) - UMR 8187 [LOG]
Bailly Du Bois, Pascal [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Radioécologie et d'Ecotoxicologie [IRSN/DEI/SECRE/LRE]
Lopez, Guillomar [Auteur]
Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière [M2C]
Morillon, Mehdi [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Radioécologie et d'Ecotoxicologie [IRSN/DEI/SECRE/LRE]
Poizot, Emmanuel [Auteur]
Méar, Yann [Auteur]
Bennis, Anne-Claire [Auteur]
Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière [M2C]

Journal title :

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
New insights on tidal dynamics and tidal energy harvesting in the Alderney Race

Pages :

20190625

Publisher :

Royal Society, The

Publication date :

2020-08-20

ISSN :

1364-503X

English abstract : [en]

The Alderney Race is assumed to have the largest tidal-stream energy potential in the North-Western European coastal seas. Interaction of the powerful tidal stream with strong wind, high waves and irregular bathymetry ...
Show more >The Alderney Race is assumed to have the largest tidal-stream energy potential in the North-Western European coastal seas. Interaction of the powerful tidal stream with strong wind, high waves and irregular bathymetry creates hydrodynamic conditions of extreme complexity, with high level of turbulence. A comprehensive dataset has beencreated to improve the understanding of physical processes, turbulence, tidal stream and resource variability at the site. The database contains a large amount of oceanographic and meteorological measurements acquired in Alderney Race in 2017–2018. This exceptionally long period of observations (nearly one year) became possible due to modern Tools and strategies of data acquisition. The paper présents some significant results from the database analysis. Among many results, we would like to underline the following: (i) a wide range of variability of mean flow and sea state parameters was documented; (ii) exceptionally large values of current velocityShow less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Comment :

(IF 4.23; Q1)

Collections :

• Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences (LOG) - UMR 8187

Source :

Harvested from HAL