CES UP:STREAM

Description

The purpose and main objective of the project is to work with CES to apply a systematic sector-wide assessment of barriers (both identified and to be identified) in commercialising the tidal sector. This work is aligned to CES’s latest published Corporate Plan. The project will develop a series of prioritised interventions including a multi-part research project to ensure that Scotland’s tidal sector maintains its position as world leader. Those identified interventions, that by their nature are not possible within the Project, will be targeted through other means, e.g., by forming appropriate consortia and developing major follow-on academic and joint industry partnership (JIP) projects targeting UKRI (InnovateUK, NERC, EPSRC) and international funding bodies (DoE, USA, EC Horizon Europe etc.).

By together helping the sector, CES will have grown and de-risked one of their key target markets. The project involves contributions from University of Edinburgh staff, across multi-disciplinary departments, including the School of Engineering, EPCC, and the School of Social and Political Science.

The project is led by Dr Brian Sellar of the Institute for Energy Systems.

Milestone 1 - Open Resource Model Data

An open resource model (ORM) that targets the European Marine Energy Centre's Tidal Energy Test Site (EMEC TETS) has been constructed, calibrated and validated using design methods developed across a series of previous projects. The model was solved using the Open Telemac-Mascaret tools, generating a stable model run covering 01 July 2014 to 01 August 2014 inclusive.

The model mesh has 205551 horizontal nodes and was run in 3D with 25 sigma layers. The mesh resolution across the EMEC TETS region is 20m. The model data were capture every minute generating large output files (178G per model day). To reduce the data volume and simplify usage, a subset of the data covering the TETS region has been extracted and gridded onto a regular 20m rectangular mesh, retaining the 25 vertical sigma layers. The data are stored in 12-hour fragments reducing the data content to 11G per 12-hour period. A sample of the data are provided below (see Data zips). The full 32-day extracted data set is currently being tested, archived, and doi'ed, and will be made available through the DATASETS page of this website.

NOTE: Downloading the zipped data file takes about 10 minutes through wired connection to ethernet, significantly longer across WIFI. The data can be downloaded using wget or curl with the associated URL that can be copied by right clicking on the file link.

Bathymetry

3D interactive bathymetry, exagerated depth scale, hover for coordinates