Taylor Diagram

Plot a Taylor diagram from statistic values given by STD (standard deviation), RMS (centered root mean square difference) and COR (correlation)  

 

Ref: K. Taylor  

Summarizing multiple aspects of model performance in a single diagram. JGR 2001

Download the routine here:

http://guillaumemaze.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/matlab/codes/statistics/taylordiag.m

This is an example of output. It compares the sea surface heat flux daily time series from OCCA, MIXED, ECMWF and NCEP to datas from a mooring deployed in the Gulf Stream core for the CLIMODE project.