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EnvironmentAn ocean current is a continuous, directed movement of seawater generated by forces acting upon this mean flow, such as breaking waves, wind, the Coriolis effect, cabbeling, and temperature and salinity differences, while tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the Sun...
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This dataset comprises raw ocean current data collected from the SmartBay buoy moored in Cork Harbour. The Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) measures the speed and direction of ocean currents.
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Irish Wave Rider Buoy Network 30 minutes real time wave data collection. The parameters collected include; Longitude (decimal degrees), Latitude (decimal degrees), dateTime (yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.sss), Station ID, Peak Period (secs), Peak Direction (Degrees True), Upcross Period...
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The Accessible Wave Energy Resource Atlas 2005 describes an initial comparison between several years of hourly wave forecasts (using WAM) on a grid of points located off the Irish coast with corresponding records from a number of buoys installed in recent years. The report...
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The CMPS10 Tilt Compensated Compass sensor is a tilt compensated compass which calculates a bearing. Employing a 3-axis magnetometer , a 3-axis accelerometer and a 16-bit processor, the output of the three sensors measuring x, y and z components of the magnetic field,...
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EnvironmentThe Irish Tide Gauge Network (ITGN) is a network of operational and historical 19 tide gauges around the coastline of Ireland. A tide gauge (also known as a mareograph or marigraph or sea level recorder) is a device for measuring the daily changes in sea level relative to a...
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Department of Communications, Climate Action & Environment commissioned Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan Strategic Environmental Assessment Tidal Resource area for the development of tidal energy.
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The hydrodynamic model, ROMS (Regional Ocean Modeling System), is run for a domain that covers a significant portion of the northeast Atlantic at a resolution of 2.5 km and and with 40 vertical levels.7-day forecasts are generated for research purposes and for comparison with...
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This data comprises loadcell force data collected from the SmartBay buoy moored in Galway Bay. The Strainstalls load shackle measures tensile loads. This dataset contains measurements of load from mooring chains attached to the SmartBay buoy.