The impact of sea breezes on offshore wind energy resources in Australia

Brown, Andrew; Vincent, Claire

doi:10.5194/wes-11-2287-2026

Articles | Volume 11, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-11-2287-2026

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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-11-2287-2026

© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 6

Research article

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01 Jul 2026

Research article |

| 01 Jul 2026

The impact of sea breezes on offshore wind energy resources in Australia

Andrew Brown and Claire Vincent

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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-11-2287-2026-supplement

Data sets

A dataset of sea breeze objects over Australia (1979-2024) Andrew Brown and Claire Vincent https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18576337

Bureau of Meteorology Atmospheric high-resolution Regional Reanalysis for Australia - Version 2 (BARRA2 NCI Australia https://doi.org/10.25914/1x6g-2v48

Model code and software

andrewbrown31/sea_breeze_analysis: v1.2 Andrew Brown https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20082648

sea\_breeze: v1.1 Andrew Brown https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17220916

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Sea breezes are characterised in potential offshore wind development areas in Australia. For most areas in summer, there are more available wind resources in the afternoon on days with sea breezes (by 15 %–30 %), with higher operational energy demand due to warmer air temperatures. The afternoon peak in wind speeds occurs at around the same time as peak energy demand. These findings have implications for energy system planning and wind farm development.