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Offshore Wind Farms - the Need for Metocean Data

Introduction The wind power community has a long record for onshore design and construction of wind turbine foundations, whereas the offshore wind power is still in an embryonic phase but with aggressive and ambitious plans for developments. Despite the many and obvious differences between traditional oil and gas structures and wind turbine foundations, there are much more similarities than differences in the requirement to high quality metocean data. This paper outlines the methodologies for establishing the metocean data basis including examples from offshore wind farms. The aim is to present an overview rather than all the details, which are better found in text books and dedicated technical papers.