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The Offshore Environment

Authors : Lucy Cradden, Pauline Laporte Weywada, Mairéad Atcheson

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Abstract

An accurate assessment of the offshore environment, including the meteorological, oceanographic and other relevant environmental conditions, is fundamental to the design of FOWTs.

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Metadata
Title
The Offshore Environment
Authors
Lucy Cradden
Pauline Laporte Weywada
Mairéad Atcheson
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Floating Offshore Wind Energy

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-29396-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-29398-1

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29398-1_2