Sensitivity of Sea Surface Temperature Simulation by an Ocean Model to the Resolution of the Meteorological Forcing

Table 4

Summary of differences between BADC and NCEP meteorological data.

		Winter			Spring			Summer			Autumn
		ME	RMSe	𝑅	ME	RMSe	𝑅	ME	RMSe	𝑅	ME	RMSe	𝑅
Meteo forcing	Air temperature (°C)	0.51	0.44	0.7	−0.81	0.34	0.57	0.01	0.30	0.38	0.35	0.37	0.51
	Total cloud cover (%)	16.77	9.9	0.2	19.63	10.6	0.2	23.3	8.96	0.13	22.5	8.46	0.2
	Pressure (Pa)	54.6	53.1	0.82	2.3	63.0	0.73	11.6	49.3	0.79	12.1	43.5	0.83
	Relative humidity (%)	−4.8	2.3	0.33	1.91	2.2	0.38	−1.2	2.2	0.2	−4.4	2.1	0.33
	Precipitation (kg/m^2/day)	0.02	1.98	0.31	0.9	2.46	0.28	0.43	2.87	0.30	0.2	2.4	0.31
	𝑈-wind (ms^−1)	−0.26	0.85	0.48	−0.19	0.82	0.46	−0.25	0.82	0.32	−0.4	0.75	0.5
	𝑉-wind (ms^−1)	−1.14	0.78	0.56	−0.48	0.83	0.47	−1.19	0.77	0.55	−0.6	0.86	0.54

Abbreviations: BoM is the bias of mean; RMSe is the root mean square error; 𝑅 is the correlation coefficient.