Research Article

Regional Climate Model Sensitivity to Domain Size for the Simulation of the West African Summer Monsoon Rainfall

Table 1

Mean Bias (MB), Root Mean Square Difference (RMSD) and Pattern Correlation Coefficient (PCC) for each of the simulation with respect to TRMM over the analyzed domain (e.g., Figure 1(b)). MB is expressed as percentage of TRMM values while RMSD as mm/day.

Domain 1Domain 2Domain 3Domain 4

MB−7.53−5.42−2.954.07
RMSD1.971.881.801.93
PCC0.790.800.820.80