Weather Support for the 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Sailing Events

Table 2

Statistical analyses for four buoy stations during the period of August 9–21, 2008.

	Wind speed MAE (ms^−1)	Wind direction MAE (°)	Wind speed RMSE (ms^−1)	Wind direction RMSE (°)
Correction from forecasters	1.1	34	1.4	42
Ensembled forecasts	1.2	36	1.4	45
MOS (MM5)	1.3	37	1.6	45
WRF (500 m)	1.5	41	1.8	52
MM5RUC	1.6	38	1.9	49
DAMOS (MM5)	1.7	46	1.9	54
WRF (5 km)	1.9	49	2.2	57
WRF (3 km)	2.0	50	2.4	63

MAE: mean absolute error; RMSE: root mean square error.