diff --git a/docs/Users_Guide/grid-stat.rst b/docs/Users_Guide/grid-stat.rst index 8e93392a72..08392b5017 100644 --- a/docs/Users_Guide/grid-stat.rst +++ b/docs/Users_Guide/grid-stat.rst @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Differences are computed in both of the horizontal grid directions and is not a As described in :ref:`Ebert-Uphoff et al., 2024 `, statistics based on the magnitude of the forecast and observed gradients are also provided. Similiar to -the S1 score, the root-mean-squared error the magnitude of the gradients and their +the S1 score, the root-mean-squared error of the magnitude of the gradients and their divergence quantify the similarity in the texture of the fields, with 0 being a perfect score. These gradient-based statistics assess the difference in smoothness between the two fields but not the accuracy of the forecast.