Articles | Volume 15, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1517-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1517-2019
Research article
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19 Nov 2019
Research article |  | 19 Nov 2019

Sea level variability in the Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone and adjacent seawaters: influence on a point absorbing wave energy converter

Valeria Castellucci and Erland Strömstedt

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The work presented is part of the SWERM project on Swedish wave energy resource mapping. The project aims to generate and combine different layers of information for the Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone in order to identify the most suitable areas for wave energy conversion. This paper presents the results for the mean sea level variation layer. For the case study considered, the most suitable sites where to deploy WEC parks are found in the Gotland basins and in the Bothnian Sea.