Wave Resource Data Download

The Wave Resource Data Download accesses the NLR Hindcast Wave Energy Downoad web API that contains coastal wave data for the U.S. West Coast, U.S. East Coast, Hawaii, and Alaska. This three-hour time series data is available for multiple years.

Note

The web API may not always respond, so it may take several tries to successfully download a wave energy data file.

Select dataset

Choose a dataset as appropriate for your location. Data is only available for locations along the U.S. East and West coasts and Hawaii.

Latitude and Longitude

The latitude and longitude in decimal degrees of the location. You can use the NLR Marine Energy Atlas to help identify locations covered by the database.

Choose a single year

Use this option to download a weather file with one year’s worth of data.

Choose years

Use this option to download data for a range of years.

Download all years

Use this option to download data for all available years in the database.

Choose download folder

By default, SAM will download the file(s) to the <user>/SAM Downloaded Weather Files folder on your computer, where <user> is the user folder on your computer. Click the Ellipses button .