Abstract
The objective of this paper is to present the joint assessment of offshore wind and wave energy resources for the Portuguese Wave Energy Pilot Zone (PZ). Offshore wind conditions are computed by the mesoscale regional atmospheric model MM5 whose good accuracy for that area had already been assessed through comparison against data. Wave conditions were produced by the shallow-water wind-wave model SWAN using as forcing wind the fields produced by MM5 and initial and boundary wave conditions computed the 3rd generation wind-wave model MAR3G. These preliminary results for the PZ were compared against buoy data for a two-month period. It was found that the accuracy is reasonable for significant wave height, wave power and mean direction but the energy period and peak period were significantly under-calculated. It is planned to further develop this work using initial and boundary conditions produced by a different wind-wave model as well as different SWAN parameterization models for wave generation and white-capping.
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