Table 2: Number of the station observations considered for the average surrounded by the corresponding zones and the correlation coefficient values between the areas averaged daily mean temperatures at 2 m height from model and station observations.

S. No Name of the Zone Number of stations (observations) considered for comparison BIAS RMSE Standard deviation Correlation coefficient 1 Zone 1 7 0.8105 4.543 7.7829 0.9439 2 Zone 2 6 0.4971 3.733 6.7153 0.9398 3 Zone 3 8 0.204 3.5012 6.3889 0.9530 4 Zone 4 7 0.236 4.0652 5.6857 0.8996 5 Zone 5 6 1.3872 3.1706 5.8532 0.9504 6 Zone 6 7 1.7921 4.3078 6.4188 0.8987 7 Zone 7 10 1.166 3.1988 4.2399 0.9303 8 Zone 8 11 0.8273 3.8727 5.1576 0.9004 9 Zone 9 5 2.4651 3.7733 4.2653 0.8835 10 Zone 10 8 1.621 2.5082 2.9767 0.7659 11 Zone 11 14 0.6357 1.8848 2.5269 0.7824 12 TOTAL 89 0.6836 2.71 4.248 0.9447