Table 7. Validation of CAWCR wave hindcast for the Sydney waverider buoy.

	CAWCR WAVE HINDCAST VALIDATION
	Hs			Tp			Dir
Location	R	Bias	RMSE	R	Bias	RMSE	R	Bias	RMSE
Offshore	0.90	−0.03 m	0.32 m	0.51	−0.62 s	2.3 s	0.70	−8.4°	30.1°
PF1	0.87	0.01 m	0.25 m	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.69	−3.2°	12.5°
PF2	0.86	0.01 m	0.22 m	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.67	−1.7°	8.7°
PF4	0.84	0.02 m	0.27 m	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.68	−1.8°	9.6°
PF6	0.81	0.04 m	0.28 m	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.69	−2.1°	9.1°
PF8	0.80	0.06 m	0.24 m	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.67	>−1.5°	8.2°