[R] Description of profiles ?

[Klemens Barfus]

Hello together,
I am working on liquid water profiles of clouds and would like to describe
these profiles in relation to a reference profile.
What is the best way to do this ? RMSE would equal positiv and negativ
deviations. Is it better to use a correlation coefficient ?
What is the best way, espacially when I want to find out profiles with the
same behaviour / shape, which are just more or less shifted / just have a
different mean value ?
Thanks for your help in advance !

Klemens

Dipl.-Geogr. Klemens Barfus
Institute for Hydrology and Meteorology
Technical University of Dresden
Germany

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