Modeling the impacts of hurricanes on proposed offshore energy sites in northeastern US

April 2, 2019
Boma Kresning

Lead: M. R. Hashemi

Boma Kresning (PhD student at OCE department) is employing an advanced coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling system to better understand hurricane loadings on proposed offshore wind farms in northeastern US as his PhD thesis.

Kresning, B., Hashemi, M. R., & Gallucci, C. (2020, January). Simulation of Hurricane Loading for Proposed Offshore Windfarms off the US Northeast Coast. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 1452, p. 012026)

Modeling the impact of full blockage of Minas Passage on tidal amplitude in the Gulf of Maine
Modeling the impact of full blockage of Minas Passage (extreme tidal energy extraction) on tidal amplitude in the Gulf of Maine (Kresning et al. 2019)