Assessing the Capabilities of Three Regional Climate Models over CORDEX Africa in Simulating West African Summer Monsoon Precipitation

Table 1

Detailed output of the statistical analysis of the satellite and the CORDEX RCMS.

	Guinean Coast				Remarks		Savannah				Remarks
	MB	MGE	RMSE				MB	MGE	RMSE
TRMM		13.02	16.18	0.99	Most suitable	TRMM		35.29	35.89		Most suitable
CCLM		49.20	52.79	0.97	Most suitable	CCLM		88.73	110.49		Not suitable
RCA		29.94	35.01	0.66	Suitable	RCA		25.20	28.72		Most suitable
REMO		37.33	39.42	0.94	Most suitable	REMO		51.02	51.98		Not suitable
	Sahel				Remarks		West Africa				Remarks
	MB	MGE	RMSE				MB	MGE	RMSE
TRMM		2.47	3.25	1.00	Most suitable	TRMM		8.39	9.19		Most suitable
CCLM		33.72	35.78	0.62	Most suitable	CCLM		37.11	48.21		Not suitable
RCA		26.23	31.36	0.94	Most suitable	RCA		21.24	26.27		Not suitable
REMO		33.63	38.86	0.90	Most suitable	REMO		25.70	28.55		Not suitable