Numerical Modelling of Oil Spills in the Area of Kvarner and Rijeka Bay (The Northern Adriatic Sea)

Table 2

Mean errors (AEs) and root mean squared errors (RMSEs) for modelled current components (𝑢,𝑣) with respect to the measured values, along with complex vector correlation coefficients between measured and modelled currents.

	S4		S5	S6	S7	S21
	Winter	Summer	Winter	Winter	Winter	Summer
AE (𝑢) [ms^−1]	0.001	0.006	0.010	0.022	0.010	0.024
AE (𝑣) [ms^−1]	0.053	0.018	−0.006	0.001	0.003	0.012
RMSE (𝑢) [ms^−1]	0.037	0.062	0.049	0.101	0.043	0.066
RMSE (𝑣) [ms^−1]	0.089	0.087	0.095	0.069	0.042	0.070
Correlation coefficient	0.490	0.621	0.776	0.343	0.606	0.424