Kinetic Energy from Currents in the Greater North Sea and Celtic Seas (2001)

GeoTiff datasets of average kinetic energy per square metre at 1m from the seabed due to currents in the Greater North Sea and Celtic Seas. The layers are built using data from National Oceanographic Centre (NOC) current models, with a raster cell size of 300m. The time series is based on 30-minute output from tidal models run for 2001, considered a typical year.

Use Cases

• Modeling seabed habitat suitability based on kinetic energy from currents.
• Assessing potential sites for tidal energy installations based on percentile energy values.
• Analyzing spatial patterns of near-bed current energy for marine spatial planning.
• Validating hydrodynamic models using percentile-based kinetic energy rasters.

Strengths

• Raster cell size of 300m provides a specific spatial resolution.
• Data is based on 30-minute output from tidal models for a full year (2001).
• Includes multiple percentile layers (e.g., ke100, ke90) for statistical analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the uk_data platform and the specific models used.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Joint Nature Conservation Committee, using data from National Oceanographic Centre (NOC) current models.

Collection Method

Built using output from tidal models (CS20, CS3, NEA) run for 2001.

Time Range

2001

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 09:47:44.123339; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Greater North Sea and Celtic Seas.