WAVEWATCH III Validation

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3-year rolling validation results for wave heights

Ocean buoy observations are separated into geographical regions and compared to model output from the same locations and times for the last three years.

For the hindcast, a BA analysis is performed to estimate biases and random errors as a function of the wave heights, and the distribution of observed and modeled wave heights is produced. For forecasts, only bulk statistics are presented.

Data	Wave Heights					Winds
Region	Global	NE Atl	Cent Atl	NW Atl	NE Pac	Gulf Mex	Carib	Hawaii	Alaska	All
Fcst	Hindcast	24H	48H	72H	96H	120H

Analysis
BIAS RMSE S.I.
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Notes and Comments on wave heights validation