BC Wave Power Potential

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
Triton Consultants and National Research Council, Canadian Hydraulics Centre
Publication_Date: 2006
Title: BC Wave Power Potential
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data
Other_Citation_Details: Funded by BC Hydro and Natural Resources Canada
Online_Linkage: \\POTTER\L$\Data Library\Post\Energy\Renewable\wavepower
Description:
Abstract:
This dataset illustrates the estimated potential energy resources available in ocean surface waves (mean annual wave power) within the Canadian Pacific EEZ.
Purpose:
The purpose of this dataset is to identify estimated potential energy resources available in ocean surface waves (mean annual wave power) within the Canadian Pacific EEZ for the BCMCA Atlas and Marxan analyses.
The British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA) is a collaborative project assembling and analyzing spatial information about Canada's Pacific Ocean. The overall goal of the BCMCA is to identify marine areas of high conservation value and marine areas important to human use. Results of the project are intended to inform and help advance marine planning initiatives in BC by providing collaborative, peer-reviewed scientific analyses based on the best ecological and human use spatial data at scales relevant to a BC coast-wide analysis.
Supplemental_Information:
The dataset was originally developed as part of a preliminary wave resource inventory for Canada's Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The estimates in this dataset are potential resources, not economically realisable resources. Energy calculations are based on preliminary estimates of existing wave regimes and no consideration has been given to the following factors: environmental impacts, technological developments and limitations in wave power extraction, climate related factors (e.g. global climate change), site location versus power grid accessibility and power demand, hydrogen economy developments, the effect of potential energy extraction schemes on existing wave regimes, and economic factors.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 2006
Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -8362.696790
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -7439.696790
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 3363.713045
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 2759.713045
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword: Wave power potential
Theme_Keyword: Wave power resources
Theme_Keyword: Mean annual wave power
Theme_Keyword: ocean energy
Place:
Place_Keyword: BC
Place_Keyword: Pacific Ocean
Access_Constraints: Free and open access to the public.
Use_Constraints:
The Data are provided 'as is', without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, with respect to performance, quality, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Michael Tarbotton
Contact_Organization: Triton Consultants
Contact_Position: Consultant
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 604 263-3500
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: mrtarbotton@triton.ca
Data_Set_Credit:
Dataset developed by Triton Consultants and the National Research Council, Canadian Hydraulics Centre. Funding for the dataset's development provided by BC Hydro and Natural Resources Canada.
NRC Contact: Andrew Cornett, Ph.D., P.Eng. Group Leader - Coastal, Ports & Offshore Canadian Hydraulics Centre, National Research Council Adjunct Professor, Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa] E-mail: Andrew.Cornett@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Voice: 613-993-6690 Fax: 613-952-7679
Native_Data_Set_Environment:
Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.1850
Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Logical_Consistency_Report:
BC Hydro funded the original BC work (2002). Triton Consultants and Canadian Hydraulics Centre, National Research Council (CHC) have leveraged years of modelling to create this data. CHS/DFO provided charting and tide data, NOAA provided WW3 data and MEDS stores wave data.
This 2006 version of the data was used to inform CHC's section of the Canada Ocean Energy Atlas and was funded by Natural Resources Canada.
Completeness_Report:
The accuracy of the wave energy data breaks down closer to shore, at water depths less than approximately 100-150 metres, due to sheltering and bathymetric effects such as wave shoaling, refraction and diffraction. The wave conditions at any one site are highly variable over several different time scales.
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
Points (nodes) from the WW3 model are situated 1 degree of latitude and 1 degree of longitude apart from each other; Closer towards the coastline, the density of sub-grid nodes increases to .25 degrees x .25 degrees.
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Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Publication_Date: 2006
Source_Contribution:
Canada Wave Power Resources - developed by Triton Consultants and the National Research Council, Canadian Hydraulics Centre. Funding for the dataset's development provided by BC Hydro and Natural Resources Canada. Cornett, A. 2006. Inventory of Canada's Marine Renewable Energy Resources. Canadian Hydraulics Centre, National Research Council. CHC-TR-041. Available from <http://www.oreg.ca/web_documents/chc-tr-041.pdf>
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Wave energy resources in Canada's Pacific waters were defined here by analysing a large quantity of data obtained from two main sources: direct wave measurements obtained from over 30 Pacific Ocean direct wave measurement stations (from Fisheries and Oceans Marine Environmental Data Services) ; and wind-wave hindcasts of the Northeast Pacific generated by the WAVEWATCH-III (WW3) model, a third generation spectral wind-wave model developed by Henrik Tolman, NOAA. Each direct observation station provided thousands of month-to-month observations over seven years. Only buoys with greater than 300 days of good records were used in the model.
Data were outputted in geographic projection (WGS84) as point shape (GIS) files using Manifold GIS. Data provided to BCMCA by: Michael Tarbotton, M.Sc., P.Eng TRITON CONSULTANTS LTD. Coastal, Dredging, Ocean, River and Port Engineers/Physical Oceanographers Granville Island 216-1650 Duranleau Street, Vancouver, B.C., V6H 3S4 office: 604-263-3500 mobile: 604-812-3501 fax: 604-676-2252 URL: <http://www.triton.ca> eMail: <mailto:mrtarbotton@triton.ca>
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Michael Tarbotton
Contact_Organization: Triton Consultants
Contact_Position: Consultant
Contact_Address:
Address: 215-1650 Duranleau Street
City: Vancouver
State_or_Province: BC
Postal_Code: V6H 3S4
Country: Canada
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 604-263-3500
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: mrtarbotton@triton.ca
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Data were received by the BCMCA as a float dataset (PacificWavesSurface). Points representing sub-grid nodes from the WW3 hindcast model were converted to a surface raster (ESRI grid) using the ArcToolbox Float to Raster tool. The projection was then defined in the resulting raster (surface_grs80) following the information found in the PacificWavesSurface.prj file which stipulated that the file was based on GRS80 with the angular units of Arc-minutes. The GRS 1980 projection was selected from the standard list in ArcCatalog and modified to use the angular units of minutes.
Process_Date: November 2008
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Carrie Robb
Contact_Organization: Living Oceans Society (for BCMCA)
Contact_Position: GIS Specialist
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The raster was clipped to the Canadian Pacific EEZ using the Extract by Mask tool in the Spatial Analyst toolbox.
The raster surface was generated without using break-points identifying land and therefore was not accurate where shown in inlets and bays (see General Data Quality notes). A mask was applied on the maps produced to accurately portray the data.
Process_Date: January 2011
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Carrie Robb
Contact_Organization: Living Oceans Society (for BCMCA)
Contact_Position: GIS Specialist
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Raster
Raster_Object_Information:
Raster_Object_Type: Grid Cell
Row_Count: 604
Column_Count: 923
Vertical_Count: 1
Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Geographic:
Latitude_Resolution: 0.000000
Longitude_Resolution: 0.000000
Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal minutes
Planar:
Planar_Coordinate_Information:
Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: row and column
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Ordinate_Resolution: 1.000000
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: D_GRS_1980
Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222
Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization:
The British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA), a Tides Canada Initiatives Project
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: info@bcmca.ca
Resource_Description:
Downloadable Data Free public access granted by: Melanie Nadeau, P.Eng. Manager, Marine Energy/Gestionnaire, Énergie des mers Renewable Energy Technologies/Technologies des énergies renouvelables CanmetENERGY/CanmetÉNERGIE Natural Resources Canada / Ressources naturelles Canada 580 Booth St, 13th Floor / 580, rue Booth, 13ième étage Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E4 Tel. (613) 947-2370 Fax. (613) 996-9416 Email. menadeau@nrcan.gc.ca
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Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20120214
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis
Contact_Person: Dave Nicolson
Contact_Position: Project Manager
Contact_Address:
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: info@bcmca.ca
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