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Note: Page numbers followed by f indicate figures and t indicate tables.

A Blue Kenue, 218–219
Acoustic current meter, 162 Boston, tidal elevation time series,
Acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) 61–62, 62f
hull-mounted, 170, 172f Boundary condition data, 197, 198f
modes of operation, 165–167
mooring, 167–170, 171f C
Acoustic Doppler velocimeter (ADV),
Capacity factor, 28–29, 28f,29t
163–165
Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), 8, 9f
Acoustic Waves and Currents (AWAC), 180
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis
Actuator disc theory, 73, 290
Center (CDIAC), 9
ADCIRC, 204–205, 207f
Carnot heat engine, 149–150
Agulhas Current, 143, 144f
Cauchy’s first law of motion, 35
Albedo, 8
Central difference, 203
Alternating current (AC), 12–14
Centrifugal force, 47–48, 49f
Amphidrome, 57–58
Chapman boundary condition, 212
Amphidromic points, 51 Clamped elevation, 212
Annual Energy Yield (AEY), 135
Clamped normal velocity, 212
Arrays, 73
Climate change
Attenuator, 125
albedo, 8
CO 2 emissions, 8, 9f,10f
B fossil fuel reserves, 11–12, 13f
Backward difference, 202 global warming, 8
Barrages greenhouse gases, 8
La Rance tidal power station, 76–77, 78f Milankovitch cycles, 7
tidal range, 76–81 radiation balance, 7
Bathymetry data, 197 solar radiation, 7
Bernoulli’s equation, 44, 44f,79 Closed cycle OTEC, 146–148, 148f
Betz limit, 76, 77f, 248 Closure problem, 210–211
horizontal axis wind turbines, Coal, global energy mix, 4–6, 6f
89–90, 89f Coastline data, 196–197
Bias, 216–217 CO 2 emissions, 8, 10f
Block Island Wind Farm Compound tides, 60–62, 61f,62f
capacity factor, 101–104, 102t Computational fluid dynamics (CFD),
energy production distribution, 101–104, 220–221
104f Conductivity, temperature, and depth
histogram of hourly wind speed, 99–100, (CTD), 185–187, 186f
100f Constraints, 245
power output, 101–104 Control variables, 238
probability density function, 100–101 Control volume
time series of hourly wind speed data, horizontal axis turbine, 74
99, 99f in space, 33–34, 34f
Wave Information Studies, 97–98, 98f Conventional fossil fuel-based
Weibull distribution, 100–101 energy, 276
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