The study was commissioned to determine the wave resource around the island of Mauritius in order to identify priority sites for commercial wave energy device trials. To quantify the wave resource, a 10-year wave hindcast was conducted. The regional hindcast models were driven by output from The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate
Research’s global WAVEWATCH IIITM re-analysis, which outputs hourly gridded global wind and wave conditions. Three nested model domains were used to model the wave climate from Indian Ocean basin: (1) Mascarene domain, (2) Mauritius Island domain and (3) South East Coast domain - a high resolution domain that extended from Blue Bay to Souillac. The analysis was conducted using the numerical model Simulating WAves Nearshore (SWAN).
Keywords
wave energy,resource assessment,Mauritius
Language
English
Publisher
Mauritius Research and Innovation Council
Content Classification
Report
Funding Agency(ies)
Mauritius Research Council
Note/Remarks
For more information: http://www.mric.mu/English/Pages/High-Penetration-.aspx