SeasonalSstLonRmse

Equatorial SST zonal Seasonality zonal RMSE

Description:

Computes the zonal root mean square error (RMSE) of equatorial Pacific mean annual cycle (time and meridional average) SST standard deviation between model and observations (the time averaging creates a 12 months mean annual cycle time series from which the standard deviation is computed)

Reference observations:

ERA-Interim, HadISST

Region:

equatorial Pacific

Regridding:

model regridded toward observational grid (using cdms esmf linear method)

Steps (computation):

• detrending (if applicable)
• mean annual cycle computation
• standard deviation computation
• regridding (if applicable)
• meridional average
• RMSE computation

Time frequency:

monthly

Units:

°C

Variable name:

sea surface temperature (SST)