Recent Changes in the Annual Mean Regional Hadley Circulation and Their Impacts on South America

Table 3

Area averaged root mean square error (RMSE) and bias and spatial correlation coefficient (CC) for the annual mean precipitation (mm day⁻¹) anomalies for HCSA strong cases over the last three regions of Figure 5 in the period 1996–2011.

Region	RMSE (mm day^−1)	BIAS (mm day^−1)	CC
5	0.47	0.11	0.74
6	0.25	−0.10	0.63
7	0.52	0.14	0.34