“…Addicott and Whitmor (1987) concluded that any one method of measuring discrepancy between model output and observed data alone might be misleading, but several methods used together could summarize the closeness of a model's estimates and measurements with the observed values. So, in addition to graphical comparison, the following statistics and model performance indicators were used to indicate overall model performance: Coefficient of correlation, standard deviation, standard error, coefficient of variation, mean bias or average deviation, root mean square error (RMSE), scaled root mean square error (SRMSE), Relative error, model efficiency, and index of agreement (IA) [Ali et al, 2004, Dust et al, 2000Lecina et al, 2003;Loague and Green, 1991;Law, 1983]. where S and M are the simulated and measured values for the ith observation and N is the number of observations.…”