Wave model forecast vs. satellite altimetry observations
North Sea-Baltic Sea region
Multi-season intercomparison
Dansk version
WAM model validation vs. satellite altimetry observations for the North Sea-Baltic Sea region
Multi-season intercomparison

Scatter plot
Error in 2 dimensions
Temporal error statistics
Information on the satellite observations

Scatter plot and mean errors

All pairs of WAM (0-6 hour) and satellite observations have been used.
The number of observations in each 5x5 cm box is shown with colors. The red line represents the best fit to the data whereas the green dashed line represents a one to one relationship.

2011_07-12 2012_01-06 2012_07-12
Statistics for period:2011_07-12 Statistics for period:2012_01-06 Statistics for period:2012_07-12
2013_01-06 2013_07-12 2014_01-12
Statistics for period:2013_01-06 Statistics for period:2013_07-12 Statistics for period:2014_01-12
2015_01-12 2016_01-12 2017_01-12
Statistics for period:2015_01-12 Statistics for period:2016_01-12 Statistics for period:2017_01-12

Errors in 2 dimensions

Average error statistics have been calculated over 100 km bins, to provide enough observations to obtain reliable 2D error estimates



Bias

2011_07-12 2012_01-06 2012_07-12
Statistics for period:2011_07-12 Statistics for period:2012_01-06 Statistics for period:2012_07-12
2013_01-06 2013_07-12 2014_01-12
Statistics for period:2013_01-06 Statistics for period:2013_07-12 Statistics for period:2014_01-12
2015_01-12 2016_01-12 2017_01-12
Statistics for period:2015_01-12 Statistics for period:2016_01-12 Statistics for period:2017_01-12


Standard deviation

2011_07-12 2012_01-06 2012_07-12
Statistics for period:2011_07-12 Statistics for period:2012_01-06 Statistics for period:2012_07-12
2013_01-06 2013_07-12 2014_01-12
Statistics for period:2013_01-06 Statistics for period:2013_07-12 Statistics for period:2014_01-12
2015_01-12 2016_01-12 2017_01-12
Statistics for period:2015_01-12 Statistics for period:2016_01-12 Statistics for period:2017_01-12


Scatter index

2011_07-12 2012_01-06 2012_07-12
Statistics for period:2011_07-12 Statistics for period:2012_01-06 Statistics for period:2012_07-12
2013_01-06 2013_07-12 2014_01-12
Statistics for period:2013_01-06 Statistics for period:2013_07-12 Statistics for period:2014_01-12
2015_01-12 2016_01-12 2017_01-12
Statistics for period:2015_01-12 Statistics for period:2016_01-12 Statistics for period:2017_01-12

Temporal error statistics:

Bias and stddev have been calculated for weekly averages

2011_07-12 2012_01-06 2012_07-12
Statistics for period:2011_07-12 Statistics for period:2012_01-06 Statistics for period:2012_07-12
2013_01-06 2013_07-12 2014_01-12
Statistics for period:2013_01-06 Statistics for period:2013_07-12 Statistics for period:2014_01-12
2015_01-12 2016_01-12 2017_01-12
Statistics for period:2015_01-12 Statistics for period:2016_01-12 Statistics for period:2017_01-12



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Jacob Woge Nielsen, Jacob L Høyer - May 16th 2018