TY - CONF
TI - On the wave field as observed in the BTS (Todos Santos Bay, Ensenada, Mexico) Natural Laboratory
AU - Ocampo-Torres, F
AU - Esquivel-Trava, B
AU - Osuna, P
AU - Garcia-Nava, H
T2 - Pan American Marine Energy Conference (PAMEC 2024)
AB - A natural laboratory in the coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean in the Northwest of Mexico is being implemented (Natural Laboratory in Todos Santos Bay, Mexico) since the beginning of CEMIE-Oceano in 2017. The main objective is to provide a coastal region with specialized sensors to readily monitor the wave field and the most relevant environmental (and oceanographic) variables for future performance analysis and studies of ocean energy conversion devices. BTS coastal region was selected to build the natural laboratory, since the wave power was promising resources for future harvesting. Some details of spatial and temporal variability of the wave field are presented in this work, taking into consideration the advantages of the various measuring systems which properly combined they certainly provide a relatively fine both, spatial and temporal resolution.A. In-situ sensorsThe combination of measuring systems includes in-situ sensors, such as Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) and oceanographic buoys (BOC –Coastal Oceanographic Buoys, and BOMM –Oceanography and Marine Meteorology Buoys, for their Spanish definition).B. Remote sensorsBesides in-situ sensors, ocean surface images have been obtained from space borne synthetic aperture radars operating from ESA (Sentinel 1) and DLR (TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X) satellites. Furthermore, remote sensors (X-band and High Frequency radars) are also deployed in the coast and results of the wave field retrieval are shown. In particular, high frequency (HF) radar is used to estimate the wave height and the description of the spatial variations are provided with maps of the significant wave height as obtained every hour.View the Conference Paper here.View the Presentation Slides here.
DA - 2024/02//
PY - 2024
SP - 3
PB - PAMEC
UR - https://pamec.energy/events/pamec2024/conference-program/
LA - English
KW - Wave
KW - Field Data
KW - Lab Data
KW - Modeling
KW - Site Characterization
KW - Hydrodynamics
ER -