Modeling Sea Ice Effects for Wave Energy Resource Assessments
, Zhaoqing Yang 1,2,*, Taiping Wang 1, Fadia Ticona Rollano 1 and Lucia Hosekova 3
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Reviewer Comments to Energies-1248939: Sea Ice Effects on Wave Energy Resources Assessments ---by Branch et al
This manuscript uses the SWAN model to investigate the sea ice impacts on wave energy resources. The authors found that SWAN model with a sea-ice/wave damping parameterization scheme improves the wave height forecasts. Sea ice existence can cause a decrease of wave power up to 100 KW/m based on sensitivity experiments using SWAN. The manuscript is clearly written and well-structured. I recommend publication after minor comments. Please see below.
Minor Comments:
- Title: I suggest adding the model component in the title.
- Ln 178: Please write out PE and SI. I understand the definitions of those quantities are in Appendix A. It would help readers by adding some basic information in the main text.
- Ln 189-190: ‘and are expected to improve further with the future model improvement discussed in Section 4.’----Since this part of work is undone yet, I suggest removing this.
- Table 2: Can the authors add the sample number for the statistics?
- Ln 334: Section 4 reads more like a Conclusion section.
Author Response
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Reviewer 2 Report
Some remarks are in file.
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Reviewer 3 Report
The paper presents a case study on the sea ice effects on the wave energy resource assessment using SWAN . The paper is well written and provides good reference for the reliability of SWAN with/without considering the ice effect. The authors may consider the following comments when revising the paper.
(1) Introduction Section has stated the importance and necessity of the paper. However, literature review may be essential to acknowledge others' contribution in the field of ice effects on wave evolutions;
(2) Line 118-120 may be moved to Line 49 when the SWAN is firstly introduced in this paper.
(3) A sketch of the mesh may be illustrated.
Author Response
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