TAYLORDIAGRAM

Basic Information

Name of Program

taylordiagram

Version-Date

September 2015

Description-Date

September 2015

Catchwords

Taylor-Diagram
Model Performance
Model-Observation-Comparison
CF NetCDF format
MATLAB

Acknowledgment: This project took advantage of netCDF software developed by UCAR/Unidata (www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/).

Short Description of Functionality

This program has been replaced by TAYLORTARGETDIAGRAM!

The application taylordiagram allows to visualize the quantities that describe the model performance calculated by NCDELTA as a Taylor-Diagram and to list them as a table.

In the Taylor-Diagram standard deviation, correlation as well as pattern root mean square error (PRMSE) between model and observation are graphically displayed.

Figure GUI of the application taylordiagram.

Input-Files

NCDELTA-Output files format (cf-netcdf.nc).

Output-Files

(optional) Taylor-Diagram as bitmap (*.JPG,*.PNG), as a vector graphic (*.PDF,*.EPS) or as a MATLAB figure file (*.FIG).
(optional) Table of the model performance quantities (*.CSV,*.DAT)

Methodology

Visualization of the model performance in a Taylor-Diagram after Taylor (2001).
The table lists

Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)
Taylor Skill 4 (Equation 4 in Taylor (2001))
Taylor Skill 5 (Equation 5 in Taylor (2001))
Pattern Root Mean Square Error (PRMS)
Bias (Difference of the Means)
Means of the respective model quantity and observational quantity
Standard deviations of the respective model quantity and observational quantity
Correlation between the respective model quantity and observational quantity
Positional attributes of the quantity (GK-Coordinates, latitude and longitude, depth, position name) compared by NCDELTA
Filename of the NCDELTA-Output file
Number of data points used for the comparison

Program(s) to run before this Program

NCDELTA

Program(s) to run after this Program

MATLABFIGVIEWER, Excel

Additional Information

Language

MATLAB

Additional software

Linux: MATLAB Compiler Runtime MCR R2015a in directory /usr/local/MATLAB/R2015a

Original Version

L. Nickelsen

Maintenance