- 1Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (soniaponcedeleon@tecnico.ulisboa.pt)
- 2ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
- 3COSPAR, Paris, France
The enhanced resolution of about 300 m in along-track direction that have satellite synthetic aperture radar altimetry missions — CryoSat-2, Sentinel-3A/B and Sentinel-6MF — reprocessed with the advanced SAMOSA+ retracker enables more precise wave power density estimations in coastal zones, where wave energy converters are typically deployed.
This investigation is conducted using high-resolution altimetry data from an EC-OCRE-EO database created in the frame of the Horizon 2020 program. In different coastal regions we investigate the influence of ocean currents in modifying the magnitude of the wave power density, which for regions characterized by strong currents could be a crucial information to extract abundant quantity of the wave resource to be transformed in clean energy. We perform along-track comparisons to find the correlation between wind, waves and ocean current and its relationship with the wave power density.
This study, conducted as part of ESA's ongoing WAPOSAL project (https://eo4society.esa.int/projects/waposal/), investigates the wave energy potential with CryoSat-2 and Sentinel-3A/B reprocessed data in regions of strategic importance for renewable energy exploration.
How to cite: Ponce de León, S., Orejarena, A., Panfilova, M., Restano, M., Sabia, R., and Benveniste, J.: Influence of ocean currents on the Wave Energy Potential inferred from High-Resolution Satellite Altimetry - preliminary results, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-3711, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-3711, 2025.
