climpred.metrics._rmse

climpred.metrics._rmse(forecast, verif, dim=None, **metric_kwargs)[source]

Root Mean Sqaure Error (RMSE).

RMSE = \sqrt{\overline{(f - o)^{2}}}

The square root of the average of the squared differences between forecasts and verification data.

Parameters

  • forecast (xarray object) – Forecast.

  • verif (xarray object) – Verification data.

  • dim (str) – Dimension(s) to perform metric over.

  • metric_kwargs (dict) – see rmse()

Details:

minimum

0.0

maximum

∞

perfect

0.0

orientation

negative

See also