Visually summarising multiple diverse metric results I have a multivariate time series (climate fluxes), and I have a number of model outputs that I want to asses. I also have number of metrics that I can use to assess the performance of each variable in the series (e.g. RMSE, mean bias, correlation, difference in variance, differences in skewness and kurtosis, differences in the upper and lower tails of the distributions, and so on - at least 10 metrics for each variable for model output).
So I end up with many, many scalar statistics for each model. Each of these numbers is a random variable, with it's own distribution, and those distributions are extremely diverse (e.g. RMSE can go to infinity, correlation's domain is $[-1, 1]$; bias is "better" as it goes to zero, correlation is "better" as it goes to 1).
I'm looking for a good method of visually representing the performance of each model using all of those metric results at once. I know that there's no perfect way to do this, because once you hit the Pareto region, you ultimately have to weigh the value of improved performance in one metric against degraded performance in another metric in a totally subjective way, but I'm basically just looking for ideas.
 A: A possible visualisation could be tree maps.
For each variable you can use correlation for the area and bias for the color.
Variable that will be good with respect to both correlation and bias should be easy to spot.
In spite that, I'm not sure that visualisation in the most suitable direction here.
Visualisation is powerful when you are dealing with few objects and few dimensions.
Here you have many objects (your variables) and many dimensions (measures to apply on them).
You might find it more convenient to write all the measure into some database and just query all the variables that satisfy your constraints (correlation higher than x, variance lower than y, etc.)
A: This does not seem to be a very multi-dimensional visualization problem: simple 3D bar plots should suffice (model/variable*metric). Although you do not mention the number of units you are trying to compare. As for different ranges, those can be standardized (or even inverted if a general 'good' direction is desired), although admittedly some information will be lost. 
In addition, some of those metrics will be linearly related, so can be trimmed/simplified. Here's one example I find attractive, the one with transparency, although color can be reserved to be metric-specific, if this is the focus of the comparison.
