Wednesday July 15, 2009

This week our mentor is Nate Hyde, he has us comparing the models of the RDFS website and the actual observations. The first day all four of us were assigned a different model to examine, I was assigned the model CORIE FDB21. Our task was to determine what the model did well and what it did poorly.My model did fairly good except when it came to predicting for salinity near the river.

On Tuesday we were paired up to examine another model then write a report about it. Maria and I got the model DB16. Our model did better during neap tides while Matthew's and Alma's model did better during spring tides. Today, we were introduced to MatLab and were asked to calculate the Root Mean Square  Error (RMS Error) for some raw data. MatLab was not working in my computer so Nate had me work on Excel and showed me how to calculate the RMS Error but when I tried to do it myself I was completely unsuccessful. After lunch Jim came in and fixed Matlab on my computer and now I am able to use MatLab but I'm not sure how to start.