Taylor Diagram Example 2

How to create a simple Taylor diagram that also shows the observational standard deviation.

A second example of how to create a simple Taylor diagram, given one set of reference observations and multiple model predictions for the quantity.

This example is a variation on the first example (taylor1) where now the standard deviation of the observations is also shown.

This example shows how to calculate the required statistics and produce the Taylor diagram. All functions in the Skill Metrics Toolbox are designed to only work with one-dimensional arrays, e.g. time series of observations at a selected location. The one-dimensional data are read in as data structures via a mat file. The latter are stored in data structures in the format: ref.data, pred1.data, pred2.dat, and pred3.dat. The plot is written to a file in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format.

The reference data used in this example are cell concentrations of a phytoplankton collected from cruise surveys at selected locations and time. The model predictions are from three different simulations that have been space-time interpolated to the location and time of the sample collection.