format: '1.1'
variable: PSAL
title: PSAL Profile Validation Statistics
created: '2026-05-04 13:29:52'
area: NS
experiment: Baseline
periods:
- period: 2016-2023
  is_all_period: true
  model: pyGETM
  analysed: '2026-05-04 20:55:50'
  datasets:
    ARGO floats:
      rmse: 0.707337
      bias: -0.257263
      mae: 0.481751
      correlation: 0.666843
      n_points: 9278
      mean_model: 34.571475
      mean_obs: 34.828738
      std_model: 0.493864
      std_obs: 0.875904
      n_profiles: 38
      error_distribution:
        min: -1.369647
        p05: -0.88319
        p25: -0.536067
        median: -0.354847
        p75: -0.168046
        p95: 0.497056
        max: 6.769621
      by_depth:
        0-10m:
          n: 190
          bias: 1.550375
          rmse: 2.377732
          correlation: 0.629871
        10-25m:
          n: 537
          bias: 0.663345
          rmse: 1.641828
          correlation: 0.453585
        25-50m:
          n: 861
          bias: -0.291236
          rmse: 0.834709
          correlation: 0.492862
        50-100m:
          n: 1730
          bias: -0.544601
          rmse: 0.645134
          correlation: 0.579102
        100-200m:
          n: 2809
          bias: -0.401634
          rmse: 0.457885
          correlation: 0.656943
        200-500m:
          n: 2940
          bias: -0.233114
          rmse: 0.265157
          correlation: -0.375299
        500-1000m:
          n: 211
          bias: -0.147949
          rmse: 0.149964
          correlation: 0.705406