caa a22 4500 605546487 CHVBK 20210128100941.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10236-015-0833-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10236-015-0833-y Climate change impact on wave energy in the Persian Gulf [Elektronische Daten] [Bahareh Kamranzad, Amir Etemad-Shahidi, Vahid Chegini, Abbas Yeganeh-Bakhtiary] Excessive usage of fossil fuels and high emission of greenhouse gases have increased the earth's temperature, and consequently have changed the patterns of natural phenomena such as wind speed, wave height, etc. Renewable energy resources are ideal alternatives to reduce the negative effects of increasing greenhouse gases emission and climate change. However, these energy sources are also sensitive to changing climate. In this study, the effect of climate change on wave energy in the Persian Gulf is investigated. For this purpose, future wind data obtained from CGCM3.1 model were downscaled using a hybrid approach and modification factors were computed based on local wind data (ECMWF) and applied to control and future CGCM3.1 wind data. Downscaled wind data was used to generate the wave characteristics in the future based on A2, B1, and A1B scenarios, while ECMWF wind field was used to generate the wave characteristics in the control period. The results of these two 30-yearly wave modelings using SWAN model showed that the average wave power changes slightly in the future. Assessment of wave power spatial distribution showed that the reduction of the average wave power is more in the middle parts of the Persian Gulf. Investigation of wave power distribution in two coastal stations (Boushehr and Assalouyeh ports) indicated that the annual wave energy will decrease in both stations while the wave power distribution for different intervals of significant wave height and peak period will also change in Assalouyeh according to all scenarios. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Wave energy nationallicence Climate change nationallicence CGCM3.1 nationallicence Persian Gulf nationallicence Kamranzad Bahareh Ocean Engineering and Technology Research Center, Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science, No. 3, Etemadzadeh St., Fatemi Ave., 1411813389, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran aut Etemad-Shahidi Amir Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, 4222, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia aut Chegini Vahid Ocean Engineering and Technology Research Center, Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science, No. 3, Etemadzadeh St., Fatemi Ave., 1411813389, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran aut Yeganeh-Bakhtiary Abbas School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 16765-163, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran aut Ocean Dynamics Springer Berlin Heidelberg 65/6(2015-06-01), 777-794 1616-7341 65:6<777 2015 65 10236 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-015-0833-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-015-0833-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kamranzad Bahareh Ocean Engineering and Technology Research Center, Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science, No. 3, Etemadzadeh St., Fatemi Ave., 1411813389, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Etemad-Shahidi Amir Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, 4222, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chegini Vahid Ocean Engineering and Technology Research Center, Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science, No. 3, Etemadzadeh St., Fatemi Ave., 1411813389, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yeganeh-Bakhtiary Abbas School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 16765-163, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ocean Dynamics Springer Berlin Heidelberg 65/6(2015-06-01), 777-794 1616-7341 65:6<777 2015 65 10236