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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 15.
Published in final edited form as: Atmos Chem Phys. 2018 Jul 18;18(14):10199–10218. doi: 10.5194/acp-18-10199-2018

Table 4.

The three metrics relating modeled concentrations (M) with the observed values (O) used for evaluating model performance in the smile plots and standard deviation for the ensemble.

NMSE NMSE=(OM)2¯O¯M¯ < = 1.5
FB FB=2(M¯O¯)(O¯+M¯) |FB| < = 0.3
FAC2 Fraction of model estimates within a factor of 2 of the observed values 0.5 ≤ MO ≤ 2.0 FAC2> = 0.5
SD SD=1N1i=1N(MiM¯)2 N: number of models in the ensemble
M¯ : ensemble, mean of models