Abstract:
This work aims to determine the exploitable wave energy resource at five potential sites close to harbour pro tection facilities at the Portuguese coast, namely at the Azores archipelago, at Madeira Island and at Sines, on the coast of mainland Portugal. For that purpose, a third-generation wave model SWAN is used to transfer the
offshore estimates of sea wave conditions to those points over the last 40 years. Sea states and wind fields are
provided by the climate reanalysis datasets ERA5
