TY - JOUR N2 - In this study, atlases of wave characteristics and wave energy for the Barents Sea have been generated for the years from 1996 to 2015 based on ERA-Interim datasets from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). The wave power resources in the Barents Sea can be exploited with sea ice extent declining in recent years. The entire Barents Sea has been divided into multi-year sea ice zones, seasonal sea ice zones and open water zones according to the 20-year averaged sea ice concentration. In the entire domain, the spatial distributions of the annual averaged and mean monthly significant wave heights and wave energy flux are presented. For the open water zones, 15 points have been selected at different locations so as to derive and study the wave energy roses and the inter-annual wave power variation. Moreover, the correlations between the wave energy period and the significant wave height are shown in the energy and scatter diagrams. The maximum wave power occurs in the winter in the western parts of the Barents Sea with more than 60kW/m. The wave energy can therefore be exploited in the open water zones. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/103307/PDF/P.Polar%201-18%206-A.Sulikowska%20etal.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/103307 PY - 2018 IS - No 1 EP - 144 KW - Arctic KW - Svalbard KW - weather variability KW - air temperature KW - atmospheric circulation A1 - Ziaja, Wiesław A1 - Sulikowska, Agnieszka A1 - Wypych, Agnieszka A1 - Mitka, Krzysztof A1 - Maciejowski, Wojciech A1 - Ostafin, Krzysztof PB - Polish Academy of Sciences PB - Committee on Polar Research VL - vol. 39 DA - 2018.03.20 T1 - Summer weather conditions in 2005 and 2016 on the western and eastern coasts of south Spitsbergen SP - 127 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/103307 T2 - Polish Polar Research ER -