One of the most important activities of the ETWS, in support of Met-Ocean Information and Maritime Safety Services, in particular, continues to be the Operational Wave Forecast Verification Project. A Technical Report was produced on this activity in early 2006[Bidlot, J.R. and Holt, M.W., 2006: Verification of Operational Global and Regional Wave Forecasting Systems against Measurements from Moored buoys, JCOMM Technical Report No. 30].. The project now includes 12 centres, and the goal is to continue to add new participants, including regional participants (where appropriate), and to expand the scope of the intercomparison (if/as feasible).

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