Research Article

Applying a Mesoscale Atmospheric Model to Svalbard Glaciers

Table 3

Statistical evaluation of temperature in summer and winter 2009-2010. Bold numbers indicate the best result for each AWS. Vestfonna data are not used here because of the lack of data during the chosen period. Abbreviation corr denotes height corrected temperatures.

Bias (°C)MAE (°C)SSC
DJFJJADJFDJF corrJJAJJA corrDJFDJF corrJJAJJA corrDJFDJF corrJJAJJA corr

Kongsvegen24 km0.800.50−1.6−2.1−1.1−1.63.03.21.61.90.390.410.620.73
8 km0.810.54−2.2−1.8−1.7−1.33.33.12.01.80.420.390.760.67
2.7 km0.800.51−1.2−0.9−1.2−0.93.02.91.81.80.380.370.700.66

Nordenskiöldbreen24 km0.890.29−3.7−2.90.41.23.83.21.82.10.550.450.760.86
8 km0.880.30−1.5−2.41.91.02.22.72.42.00.320.391.000.84
2.7 km0.880.30−3.1−2.60.71.23.32.92.22.30.470.410.900.94