Lincs Wind Farm: Wave Radar Measurements from Offshore Substation, 2021-2025

Wave height, period, and directional measurements from a wave radar installed at the offshore substation of the Lincs Wind Farm. The dataset covers December 2021 to April 2025, with a period from December 2021 to May 19, 2022 containing only wave height data due to a sensor malfunction. The data is provided by the Government Digital Service via the eu_open_data platform.

Use Cases

• Modeling wave energy potential for renewable energy planning based on wave height and period data
• Analyzing directional wave patterns for offshore structure design and maintenance
• Investigating sensor reliability and data recovery in marine environments based on the described head malfunction period

Strengths

• Provides a multi-year time series covering December 2021 to April 2025
• Contains three key oceanographic variables: wave height, period, and direction
• The description transparently notes a known data quality issue for a specific period

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data for the period from December 2021 to May 19, 2022 is limited to wave height only

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Measurements from a wave radar installed on an offshore wind farm substation.

Time Range

December 2021 to April 2025

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Geography

Lincs Wind Farm, North Sea (inferred from description)