Preliminary Hybrid Modeling of the Panama Canal: Operations and Salinity Diffusion

Table 3

Accuracy in salinity simulations.

Measure	Army corps of engineers model [9]	Delft hydraulics model [12]	Hybrid model
Mean absolute error (MAE)	0.021	0.032	0.007
Mean square error (MSE)	0.00116	0.00189	0.00008
Root mean square error (RMSE)	0.034	0.043	0.009
Percent bias (PBIAS)^1 [21]	34.66%	64.27%	−5%

¹Recommended by the american society of civil engineers (ASCE).