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FIG. 10.1 The 2012 time series of (A) tidal elevation (at Newlyn tide gauge), (B) wind speed
(at WaveHub), (C) significant wave height (at WaveHub), and (D) UK electricity demand. The gap
in tidal elevation data during the first week of August is due to instrument failure. Tidal data are
from the National Tidal and Sea Level Facility, provided by the British Oceanographic Data Centre
and funded by the Environment Agency. (Wind speed is from the ECMWF ERA-Interim reanalysis
dataset, wave data are from a modified version of the wave model presented by S.P. Neill, M.R.
Hashemi, Wave power variability over the northwest European shelf seas, Appl. Energy 106 (2013)
31–46, forced with ERA-Interim data, and electricity data are from http://www.gridwatch.templar.
co.uk/.)