Assimilation of Wave Imaging Radar Observations for Real-time Wave-by-Wave Forecasting Award Number: DE- EE-0006789 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.1 Water Power Program Date: 11/09/2015 Location(s): Oregon Office(s): Golden Field Office
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November 9, 2015
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Assimilation of Wave Imaging Radar Observations for Real-time Wave-by-Wave Forecasting
Award Number: DE- EE-0006789
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.1
Water Power Program
Date: 11/09/2015
Location(s): OR
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Oregon State University (OSU) to develop and assess the performance of a method for using wave-resolving marine radar to provide all weather, large-area, phase-resolved wave forecasts for wave energy converter control applications.
DOE completed a previous NEPA review (GFO-0006789-001 CX A9 9/10/2014) that authorized Budget Period 1 (Tasks 1-4) activities including program initialization, development of radar post-processing algorithms, GPU-based boussinesq model development and performance assessment, and forecast algorithm development and performance assessment. This NEPA determination applies to activities associated with Budget Period 2 including marine radar and in-situ data collection (Task 5), algorithm verification and tuning (Task 6), and completion of final reports (Task 7).