Hurricane impacts in the U.S. East Coast offshore wind energy lease areas

Included here: Time lapse videos of hub-height wind speed (HH WS) and capacity factor (CF) based on simulations with the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) and the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (COAWST) modeling system, without and with wind farm parameterization (WFP) active, for Hurricanes Irene and Sandy. The header file for the COAWST simulations, an initial (non-restart) WRF namelist.input file, an initial (non-restart) ROMS ocean.in file, and initial (non-restart) SWAN swan.in files. For more information about the files, refer to https://github.com/DOI-USGS/COAWST. This research was supported by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DE-SC0016605). Computing resources were provided by NSF Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) (award TG-ATM170024) and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DoE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.