Renewables

Workshop report; SPC-SOPAC Joint regional energy program design, 20-24 July 1998, Nadi, Fiji Islands

Report is an overview of the outcome from the regional energy program design workshop held in Nadi between 20 - 24 July 1998 so as to provide summary of regional energy sector priorities that can be considered during the 1998 energy program discussions between New Zealand and SOPAC.

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The wave climate of Western Samoa

In the present report data from the wave measurement programme, undertaken by Waverider buoys moored off the south coast of the two islands of Savai'i and Upolu, and directional wave measurements to the south east of Upolu are combined with satellite altimetric data and island wind measurements in building up a picture of the climatology of ocean waves off the shores of Western Samoa.

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Use of satellite remote sensing data for study of wave climate, 30 January - 17 February 1995, OCEANOR, Trondheim, Norway

Training at OCEANOR in Norway on the use of satellite remote sensing data for study of wave climate. This training attachment was part of extended NORAD assistance to SOPAC's Regional Wave Energy Assessment Program. The attachment was carried out from 30 January -17 February 1995. Under the program OCEANOR, an oceanographic company fromNorway, was hired to study the wave climate for the South Pacific. In Fiji the tidal potential of an inlet in Vanua Levu was investigated.

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