SMELT Evaluation (With Paired Physical Tracers)

Comparisons to DFO/IOS Observations

Nitrate, Dissolved Silica, Chlorophyll, Temperature, and Salinity

The following links point to annual notebooks comparing model output to observations from the IOS Ocean Sciences Data Archive.

2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012

2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018

Statistics

Variable

Year

Bias

RMSE

WSS

N

NO3 (\({\mu}\)M )

2007

-0.691

3.515

0.895

1060

2008

-0.572

4.201

0.904

1096

2009

0.371

3.711

0.915

1097

2010

-0.391

3.599

0.940

1461

2011

0.209

4.586

0.899

1345

2012

-0.298

3.552

0.944

1410

2013

-2.013

4.248

0.923

1031

2014

-2.833

4.456

0.921

1493

2015

-1.676

3.488

0.934

533

2016

-1.200

3.333

0.962

1675

2017

-0.071

4.144

0.923

1590

2018

-0.931

3.110

0.925

634

Dissolved Silica (\({\mu}\)M )

2007

-6.007

10.098

0.766

1060

2008

-6.411

11.323

0.762

1096

2009

-3.807

8.101

0.866

1099

2010

-3.587

10.418

0.826

1442

2011

-3.162

12.121

0.653

1345

2012

-2.909

9.399

0.792

1410

2013

-5.516

9.546

0.829

1031

2014

-6.799

10.635

0.811

1493

2015

-5.418

8.228

0.860

533

2016

-6.279

9.404

0.902

1675

2017

-3.035

10.567

0.782

1589

2018

-6.465

9.174

0.841

634

Chl a (µg L-1)

2007

-0.834

2.928

0.520

249

2008

0.412

4.729

0.488

222

2009

-2.129

7.556

0.352

240

2010

-0.062

3.234

0.609

268

2011

-2.984

8.912

0.334

224

2012

-0.856

5.715

0.222

245

2013

-2.051

5.066

0.422

179

2014

-1.544

4.895

0.633

259

2015

-0.186

3.461

0.581

125

2016

-0.364

2.473

0.661

387

2017

-1.266

4.872

0.453

428

2018

-1.264

3.952

0.493

191

log10[Chl a (µg L-1)]

2007

-0.161

0.423

0.742

249

2008

0.014

0.494

0.702

222

2009

-0.014

0.497

0.737

240

2010

-0.033

0.521

0.683

268

2011

-0.149

0.694

0.630

224

2012

-0.010

0.476

0.602

245

2013

-0.233

0.532

0.595

179

2014

-0.177

0.465

0.772

259

2015

-0.015

0.429

0.677

125

2016

-0.090

0.393

0.783

387

2017

-0.108

0.544

0.618

428

2018

-0.100

0.420

0.739

191

Conservative

Temperature (°C)

2007

-0.135

0.460

0.965

1103

2008

0.078

0.656

0.953

1107

2009

-0.054

0.796

0.953

1103

2010

-0.095

0.517

0.970

1941

2011

0.050

0.773

0.972

1465

2012

0.014

0.558

0.987

1569

2013

0.003

0.839

0.956

1035

2014

0.047

0.632

0.976

1505

2015

-0.005

0.551

0.978

566

2016

-0.102

0.652

0.974

1801

2017

-0.005

0.731

0.975

1835

2018

-0.100

0.480

0.958

685

Reference

Salinity (g kg-1)

2007

0.044

0.766

0.960

1103

2008

-0.119

0.839

0.951

1107

2009

0.019

0.935

0.944

1103

2010

0.037

1.059

0.942

1943

2011

0.143

1.229

0.968

1465

2012

0.039

0.884

0.980

1569

2013

-0.003

1.270

0.932

1036

2014

-0.168

0.821

0.954

1506

2015

0.022

0.679

0.983

566

2016

0.042

0.925

0.961

1801

2017

0.047

0.952

0.967

1835

2018

-0.057

0.795

0.956

685

Density (kg m-3)

2007

0.054

0.616

0.971

1103

2008

-0.104

0.697

0.965

1107

2009

0.025

0.798

0.958

1103

2010

0.041

0.817

0.961

1941

2011

0.103

0.982

0.975

1465

2012

0.028

0.712

0.985

1569

2013

-0.000

1.041

0.950

1035

2014

-0.137

0.690

0.968

1505

2015

0.020

0.576

0.987

566

2016

0.050

0.765

0.973

1801

2017

0.033

0.791

0.975

1835

2018

-0.031

0.632

0.967

685