Research Article

Evaluating the Performance of a Regional-Scale Photochemical Modelling System: Part I—Ozone Predictions

Table 2

Statistics corresponding to MM5 model evaluation taking into account the whole studied period.

Meteorological variableStatisticAQM.cat 2009AQM.cat 2010

Wind SpeedRMSE (ms−1)1.821.89
MB (ms−1)0.570.63
IOA0.660.65

Wind directionMAGE (°)69.3570.90
MB (°)0.622.11

TemperatureMAGE (K)1.971.87
MB (K)−0.88−0.56
IOA0.930.95

Specific humidityMAGE (g kg−1)1.261.42
MB (g kg−1)0.220.36
IOA0.890.86