Model vs. observations for the whole Salish Sea Model domain for 2008. Scatter plots of model vs. observations for the whole water column and all stations shown in Figure 1a for a) Temperature (°C), b) Salinity, c) dissolved oxygen (mg L–1), d) nitrate (mg L–1), e) Chlorophyll (μg L–1), f) Dissolved inorganic carbon (μmol kg–1), g) Total alkalinity (μmol kg–1), and h) pH (total scale). Dark solid lines indicate the least-mean-squares regression slope (see R2 values and other metrics in Table 2) and thin dashed lines indicate the 1:1 slope. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.151.f3