WAM model validation against satellite altimetry observations
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WAM model validation against satellite altimetry observations for the North Sea-Baltic Sea region
Pilot study


Average SWH conditions 
Scatter plot 
Error in 2 dimensions 
Error vs. forecast length 
Error vs. waveheight 
Temporal error statistics 
Information on the satellite observations  


Significant wave height (SWH) conditions observed from satellite observations

Average satellite SWH

Histogram of all observations and 7 days averages of satellite SWH

Statistics for 2004
Statistics for 2004
Statistics for 2004

Validation: 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 white dashed line represents a one to one relationship.



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 (WAM - altimetry)

Stddev

Statistics for 2004
Statistics for 2004

Scatter index

Statistics for 2004

Error statistics vs. forecast length  

Bias, RMS and correlations have been calculated over the whole domain, for every  hour of WAM forecast, up to 54 hours
 

Bias and rms errors

Correlation and explained variance

Statistics for 2004
Statistics for 2004

Error statistics vs. waveheight 

The bin size is 1 meter

Bias, stddev and rms errors

Statistics for 2004

Temporal error statistics:

Bias stddev and RMS have been calculated for weekly averages
 

RMS (red), std (blue) and bias (green)

Statistics for 2004
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jacob l høyer - 2007-07-30