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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Clim. 2017 Apr 4;30(No 8):2961–2988. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0699.1

Table 2.

Statistical comparisons of the MERRA-2 total ozone against TOMS data. The percent values are relative to TOMS averages.

Bias Error standard deviation
[DU] [%] [DU] [%]
90°S-60°S 1.80 0.63 15.15 5.32
60°S-30°S −4.49 −1.43 10.84 3.46
30°S-30°N −4.92 −1.83 7.44 2.77
30°N-60°N −2.60 −0.77 12.58 3.72
60°N-90°N 5.09 1.45 19.35 5.53