ABSTRACT

Within the MAREN project, aiming to characterize the wave energy in different areas in the Atlantic coast of Europe, several studies, have been performed for the West coast of Ireland (Bento et al. 2011), the Southwest of UK (Bento et al. 2011a), the North of Spain, (Bento et al., 2011b), Portugal (Silva et al., 2012), France (Gonçalves et al., 2014a; 2015a), Canary Islands (Gonçalves et al., 2014b; 2015b), and Galway Bay (Bento et al. 2015), using WAVEWATCH III (Tolman, 1991) to cover the entire North Atlantic basin and providing the boundary conditions for SWAN. The results reveal a good agreement between the predicted wave conditions and the wave measurements in those areas. Also in Guedes Soares et al., (2014a, b) the validation of the system was performed and an energy assessment was obtained for each areas.