format: '1.1'
variable: PSAL
title: PSAL Profile Validation Statistics
created: '2026-05-04 13:57:01'
area: NS
experiment: SSRD_STRD
periods:
- period: 2016-2023
  is_all_period: true
  model: pyGETM
  analysed: '2026-05-04 21:02:51'
  datasets:
    ARGO floats:
      rmse: 0.707937
      bias: -0.253508
      mae: 0.48041
      correlation: 0.6645
      n_points: 9278
      mean_model: 34.57523
      mean_obs: 34.828738
      std_model: 0.489758
      std_obs: 0.875904
      n_profiles: 38
      error_distribution:
        min: -1.370063
        p05: -0.874713
        p25: -0.535399
        median: -0.348407
        p75: -0.170367
        p95: 0.507984
        max: 6.77882
      by_depth:
        0-10m:
          n: 190
          bias: 1.564747
          rmse: 2.389176
          correlation: 0.627545
        10-25m:
          n: 537
          bias: 0.672331
          rmse: 1.650948
          correlation: 0.442819
        25-50m:
          n: 861
          bias: -0.284042
          rmse: 0.838575
          correlation: 0.480138
        50-100m:
          n: 1730
          bias: -0.540154
          rmse: 0.640217
          correlation: 0.566664
        100-200m:
          n: 2809
          bias: -0.397453
          rmse: 0.45344
          correlation: 0.655484
        200-500m:
          n: 2940
          bias: -0.232216
          rmse: 0.263757
          correlation: -0.38571
        500-1000m:
          n: 211
          bias: -0.152633
          rmse: 0.154779
          correlation: 0.715229