Introduction: special issue on New insights on tidal dynamicand tidal energy harvesting in the Alderney Race

Alexei Sentchev (1, 2) , Jérôme Thiebot (3) , Anne-Claire Bennis (4) , Matthew Piggott (5)

1 LOG - Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences (LOG) - UMR 8187
2 ULCO - Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale
3 LUSAC - Laboratoire Universitaire des Sciences Appliquées de Cherbourg
4 M2C - Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière
5 Imperial College London

The Introduction presents motivations, significance and some key points of the research activities performed in the Alderney Race.This article is part of the theme issue ‘New insights on tidal dynamics and tidal energy harvesting in the Alderney Race’.

Mots clés: tidal dynamics; tidal-stream energy; Alderney Race

Domaines: Océan, Atmosphère

Alexei Sentchev, Jérôme Thiebot, Anne-Claire Bennis, Matthew Piggott. Introduction: special issue on New insights on tidal dynamicand tidal energy harvesting in the Alderney Race. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2020, New insights on tidal dynamics and tidal energy harvesting in the Alderney Race, 378 (2178), pp.20190490. ⟨10.1098/rsta.2019.0490⟩. ⟨hal-02876676⟩