SeasonalSstLatRmse

Eastern Tropical SST Seasonality meridional RMSE

Description:

Computes the meridional root mean square error (RMSE) of eastern tropical Pacific mean annual cycle (time and zonal average) SST standard deviation between model and observations (the time averaging creates a 12 months mean annual cycle time series from which the standard deviation is computed)

Reference observations:

ERA-Interim, HadISST

Region:

Niño3.3_LatExt

Regridding:

model regridded toward observational grid (using cdms esmf linear method)

Steps (computation):

• detrending (if applicable)
• mean annual cycle computation
• standard deviation computation
• regridding (if applicable)
• zonal average
• RMSE computation

Time frequency:

monthly

Units:

°C

Variable name:

sea surface temperature (SST)

Example: