TY - RPRT
TI - Variability in the Florida Current: Implications for Power Generation
AU - Hanson, H
AU - Smentek-Duerr, A
AU - VanZwieten Jr, J
AB - THE FLORIDA CURRENT—the  reach  of  the  Gulf  Stream System  in  the  Straits  of  Florida—offers  the  potential  for renewable  base-load  power  for  the  energy-hungry  southeast Florida  metropolitan  area,  the  seventh  largest  in  the  U.S. Realization  of  this  potential  requires,  among  other  things,  a better  understanding  of  both  the  structure  and  variations  of the  flow  in  order  to  provide  developers  of  marine hydrokinetic  energy  conversion  devices  with  information critical  to  the  design  process  and  to  quantify  more completely  the  resource  itself. To  this  end,  the  Southeast  National  Marine  Renewable Energy  Center  has  deployed  Acoustic  Doppler  Current Profilers  (ADCPs)  at  a  variety  of  locations  offshore  Fort Lauderdale.  Resulting  current  profiles  are  discussed  in  this paper,  with  particular  emphasis  on  observed  variability  and its  implications  for  power  generation. 
CY - Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center 
DA - 2015/01//
PY - 2015
SP - 9
PB - Florida Atlantic University
UR - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/J-Jr-4/publication/267705258_VARIABILITY_IN_THE_FLORIDA_CURRENT_IMPLICATIONS_FOR_POWER_GENERATION/links/54aea7ea0cf21670b35867a4/VARIABILITY-IN-THE-FLORIDA-CURRENT-IMPLICATIONS-FOR-POWER-GENERATION.pdf
LA - English
KW - Marine Energy
KW - Ocean Current
KW - Ecosystem Processes
KW - Physical Environment
KW - Human Dimensions
ER -