Site-specific Design Load Cases for floating offshore wind turbine applications II: Future scenarios

This deliverable includes a brief description of the updated database (extending the database released in D5.1 of the INF4INiTY project) on the site-specific Design Load Cases (DLCs) covering both historical and future metocean data. The dataset includes a complete description of the metocean data, including raw data and their statistical post-processing, and the definition of the most relevant site-specific DLCs across the three areas of study defined in the INF4INiTY project: Scottish Sea, Baltic Sea and Adriatic Sea. In addition to the dataset, this deliverable includes an updated and user-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the analysis of specific locations within these three areas and the generation of the site-specific DLCs. The original aim of the database is to provide a characterisation of the areas of interest in order to use the DLCs during the different design stages of the main innovations planned in various work packages (WPs) within INF4INiTY. However, the database can also serve for the design of any offshore technology beyond the INF4INiTY project. Following the same structure as in D5.1, this deliverable is divided into six brief sections describing the (i) the GUI, (ii) characteristics of the data, (iii) the three areas of study and considered technological requirements, (iv) description of the historical and future metocean data, (v) site-specific statistical analysis and reporting, and (vii) site-specific DLCs. The site-specific DLC database is a living database to be updated over the course of the project whenever the restrictions of the Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) technology analysed in INF4INiTY vary and/or more reliable data is obtained. Therefore, the reader is recommended to analyse the latest version of the database in the online repository.