Wave Kinetic Energy at the Seabed for the Greater North Sea and Celtic Seas (2000-2005)

GeoTiff datasets of average kinetic energy per square metre at the seabed due to waves in the Greater North Sea and Celtic Seas. The data was calculated for the period 2000-2005 with a raster cell size of 300 meters and units of N/m^2. It was produced for the EMODnet Seabed Habitats project by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, using wave models from the National Oceanographic Centre and DHI.

Use Cases

• Modeling seabed habitat suitability based on wave energy stress levels.
• Analyzing spatial patterns of wave energy percentile distributions (e.g., 90th, 100th).
• Assessing coastal wave energy exposure using the high-resolution (~300m) bespoke model data.
• Validating or augmenting lower-resolution (12.5km) offshore wave models for near-shore areas.

Strengths

• Covers a specific six-year time period from 2000 to 2005.
• Provides high-resolution (~300m) coastal wave model data where broader models are inadequate.
• Includes multiple percentile layers (e.g., ke90w.tif, ke100w.tif) for analyzing energy distribution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is over 20 years old; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and total file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Joint Nature Conservation Committee for the EMODnet Seabed Habitats project.

Collection Method

Built using data from the National Oceanographic Centre (NOC) ProWAM wave model (12.5km resolution) offshore, augmented with a high-resolution (~300m) bespoke DHI Spectral Wave model for coastal areas.

Time Range

2000-2005

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 09:47:45.076160; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Greater North Sea and Celtic Seas