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Floating Offshore Wind Energy

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An accurate assessment of the offshore environment, including the meteorological, oceanographic and other relevant environmental conditions, is fundamental to the design of FOWTs.

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Lucy Cradden would like to like to thank the following: The UK Met Office for permission to use data from the MIDAS dataset (© Crown Copyright, Met Office), made available via the Centre for Environmental Analysis (CEDA); Professor Gareth Harrison at the University of Edinburgh for permission to use the WRF mesoscale model data; the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) and the GES DISC for the dissemination of MERRA; the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) for provision of ERA-40 reanalysis data.

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