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ResourceCode resources

  • The hindcast database is available here
  • User manual
  • The open-source python toolbox can be accessed directly on pypi, the source code is here.
  • The paper associated to the toolbox is published in the Journal of Open Source Software, here.

Publications

  • Raillard Nicolas, et al. (2023). RESOURCECODE: A Python package for statistical analysis of sea-state hindcast data. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(83), 4366, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04366.
  • Alday Matias, Ardhuin Fabrice, Dodet Guillaume and Accensi Mickael (2022). Accuracy of numerical wave model results: application to the Atlantic coasts of Europe, Ocean Science, 18, 1665–1689, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-1665-2022.
  • Accensi Mickael, Alday Gonzalez Matias Felipe, Maisondieu Christophe (2022). RESOURCECODE - Resource Characterization to Reduce the Cost of Energy through Coordinated Data Enterprise. Database user manual. WP3| Database development. https://doi.org/10.13155/86306.
  • Accensi Mickael, et al. (2021). ResourceCODE framework: A high-resolution wave parameter dataset for the European Shelf and analysis toolbox. Proceedings of the 14th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference 5-9th Sept 2021, Plymouth, UK. ISSN: 2706-6940 (online) 2706-6932 (CD-ROM) 2706-6932 (Print). pp.2182-1-2182-9. https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00736/84812
  • Gregory Payne, et al. (2021). Impact of Wave Resource Description on WEC Energy Production Estimates. Proceedings of the 14th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference 5-9th Sept 2021, Plymouth, UK. ISSN: 2706-6940 (online) 2706-6932 (CD-ROM) 2706-6932 (Print). pp.1949-1-1949-1.
  • Alday Matias, Accensi Mickael, Ardhuin Fabrice, Dodet Guillaume (2021). A global wave parameter database for geophysical applications. Part 3: Improved forcing and spectral resolution . Ocean Modelling, 166, 101848 (19p.) . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2021.101848

Videos, Tutorials etc.

Projet presentation

Description of the Hindcast database

Presentation of the Toolbox

ResourceCODE project summary

Impact of resourcecode on marine renewable energy industry

RESOURCECODE will have a positive impact across the MRE industry, by delivering the following:

  • Modelling and software tools made available via a new online platform will enable world leading resource characterisation.
  • Technology developers and operators will realise reduced cost of energy production through improved engineering designs and industrial approaches optimised to highly demanding marine environments.

The RESOURCECODE database will deliver underpinning data at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution from the South of the Bay of Biscay up to the North of Scotland, with the opportunity to expand this further beyond the project.

The consortium provides an opportunity to develop this database efficiently and economically as the extensive data sets held by the test sites (supplemented by academic partners) will be made available to construct, calibrate and validate the pan-European model and made available to MRE industry.

The resulting database, tools and platform will demonstrate an integrated solution dedicated to MRE, but also applicable to a broader range of marine projects such as offshore wind. This will ultimately contribute to the lowering of the cost of production of ocean energy through providing technology and project developers, regulators and other stakeholders with data that comes at higher spatial resolution, increased spatial coverage, with increased usability and transparency.

Tools built on this foundation will deliver results with significantly reduced uncertainty thus enabling better industrial decision making around device design, energy farm system topologies and planning, component procurement and ongoing operations and maintenance strategies.

A product of this type is currently unavailable to the MRE sector. It is anticipated that third party innovations, not foreseen at present, will arise from the availability of the data, tools and overarching platform which will drive long-term commercial, industrial and societal impact.

Objectives

Resource data in a raw format has limited value to the industry; the new suite of tools being developed in RESOURCECODE is required to review, quality control and interpret the raw data so the benefits can be maximised. Building upon these requirements the project has three objectives which are outlined below:

  • Resource Model Expansion: Production of a comprehensive hindcast database of high-resolution ocean energy resource parameters for European waters (extending from the North of Scotland to Bay of Biscay) validated against the industrial test sites datasets and satellite data.

  • Data Analytics: Advance a suite of tools (from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 4 to TRL 8) to support ocean energy analytics, which will underpin design and operational decisions for MRE deployments.

  • Online Platform: Development of an online platform through which the services described above will be accessed, applied and exploited by test facilities, the supply chain and renewable technologies undertaking pre-commercial demonstration.

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