Wave energy assessement for Northern Spain from a 33-year hindcast

The analysis was carried out for a coarse grid, on the North of Spain, and for three local areas with a finer mesh: Northwest Galicia, the area between Cape San Adrián and Cape Ortegal and Santander. The case studies include a more realistic perspective of the amount of energy that can be extracted with a wave energy converter, by adopting examples of a large and a small device. A seasonal variability evaluation is done for the nested areas through the analyzes of the seasonal average wave power resource for the different locations, throughout the 33 year hindcast, and the joint distributions of significant wave height and peak period for the number of occurrences and wave power.