Site-specific Design Load Cases for floating offshore wind turbine applications I: Historical data

Resumen

This deliverable includes a brief description of the first database on the site-specific Design Load Cases (DLCs) based on historical metocean data. The dataset includes metocean data, statistical analysis and site-specific DLCs across the three areas of study defined in the INF4INiTY project: Scottish Sea, Baltic Sea and Adriatic Sea. In addition to the dataset, this deliverable includes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the analysis of specific locations within these three areas and the generation of the site-specific DLCs. The aim of this initial version of the database is to provide a first characterisation of the areas of interest in order to use the DLCs on the design of the different innovations planned in various work packages (WPs) INF4INiTY. As the project proceeds, the second database will extend the site-specific DLCs including forecasted data for different horizons and under diverse climate change scenarios. The deliverable is divided into six brief sections describing the (i) the GUI, (ii) characteristics of the data, (iii) the three areas of study and technological requirements, (iv) historical metocean data, (v) site-specific statistical analysis and reporting, and (vi) site-specific DLCs.