Africa - Central Africa - Sahel Africa - South Asia - East Siberia Asia - Indonesia Asia - North Central Asia - South Central Asia and China Asia - Southeast Asia and India Asia - West Siberia Australia Europe Global - Land Middle East and Sahara North America - Alaska and Northern Canada North America - Central America North America - Eastern United States North America - Southern Canada North America - Western United States South America - Amazon South America - Southeast South America - Southwest

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	304.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	306.	306.	304.	304.	304.		1.76	1.96	0.274		0.273	0.829	0.966	0.996	0.779
Control	[-]	303.	303.	304.	302.	304.		-0.725	1.83	1.20		0.477	0.470	0.830	0.992	0.647
Randomized	[-]	303.	303.	304.	302.	304.		-0.813	1.82	1.11		0.486	0.466	0.842	0.991	0.650

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	307.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	309.	309.	307.	305.	306.		2.11	2.22	0.170		0.464	0.878	0.986	0.998	0.841
Control	[-]	307.	307.	307.	303.	306.		-0.291	1.52	0.373		0.722	0.697	0.970	0.998	0.817
Randomized	[-]	307.	307.	307.	303.	306.		-0.390	1.56	0.389		0.715	0.690	0.968	0.999	0.812

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	301.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	303.	303.	301.	300.	302.		1.81	2.02	0.323		0.419	0.865	0.959	0.999	0.822
Control	[-]	301.	301.	302.	299.	302.		-0.837	1.93	0.702		0.531	0.638	0.912	0.999	0.744
Randomized	[-]	301.	301.	302.	299.	302.		-0.873	1.96	0.772		0.529	0.627	0.905	1.00	0.738

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	266.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	266.	266.	266.	270.	269.		0.541	1.28	0.0260		0.942	0.945	0.998	0.999	0.966
Control	[-]	267.	267.	267.	268.	270.		0.187	3.50	0.0857		0.908	0.843	0.994	0.962	0.910
Randomized	[-]	267.	267.	267.	269.	270.		0.395	3.41	0.0771		0.910	0.846	0.995	0.952	0.910

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	304.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	305.	305.	304.	304.	303.		1.28	1.71	0.708		0.139	0.718	0.895	0.907	0.675
Control	[-]	301.	301.	304.	302.	304.		-2.56	2.79	1.44		0.152	0.425	0.802	0.378	0.436
Randomized	[-]	301.	301.	304.	302.	304.		-2.52	2.77	1.56		0.158	0.423	0.778	0.371	0.431

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	276.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	277.	277.	276.	278.	278.		0.316	0.891	0.00745		0.960	0.960	0.999	1.00	0.976
Control	[-]	275.	275.	277.	277.	278.		-1.77	2.66	0.0318		0.872	0.897	0.998	0.996	0.932
Randomized	[-]	275.	275.	277.	277.	278.		-1.63	2.58	0.0378		0.879	0.894	0.997	0.995	0.932

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	286.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	287.	287.	286.	290.	292.		0.990	1.48	0.0691		0.865	0.956	0.995	1.00	0.954
Control	[-]	284.	284.	286.	290.	292.		-1.81	2.61	0.118		0.804	0.894	0.991	0.987	0.914
Randomized	[-]	284.	284.	286.	290.	292.		-1.81	2.67	0.115		0.804	0.887	0.991	0.985	0.911

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	303.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	304.	304.	303.	304.	304.		1.35	1.85	0.202		0.597	0.867	0.979	1.00	0.862
Control	[-]	301.	301.	303.	302.	304.		-1.54	2.49	0.402		0.576	0.735	0.961	0.953	0.792
Randomized	[-]	301.	301.	303.	303.	304.		-1.54	2.46	0.347		0.582	0.733	0.966	0.952	0.793

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	268.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	268.	268.	268.	269.	268.		-0.122	0.847	0.0108		0.966	0.957	0.999	1.00	0.976
Control	[-]	266.	266.	268.	267.	268.		-1.97	3.24	0.0262		0.870	0.868	0.998	0.989	0.919
Randomized	[-]	267.	267.	268.	268.	268.		-1.54	2.99	0.0937		0.894	0.865	0.994	0.984	0.920

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	301.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	303.	304.	301.	298.	299.		1.79	1.95	0.114		0.667	0.929	0.991	0.997	0.903
Control	[-]	301.	301.	301.	296.	300.		-1.16	1.47	0.227		0.761	0.874	0.982	0.999	0.898
Randomized	[-]	301.	301.	301.	296.	300.		-1.01	1.39	0.286		0.780	0.867	0.978	0.999	0.898

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	286.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	286.	286.	286.	287.	289.		0.565	1.16	0.304		0.877	0.932	0.980	0.997	0.943
Control	[-]	285.	285.	286.	286.	290.		-1.56	2.07	0.363		0.788	0.898	0.976	0.996	0.911
Randomized	[-]	285.	285.	286.	287.	290.		-1.43	2.00	0.360		0.798	0.893	0.976	0.996	0.911

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	292.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	289.	294.	292.	253.	295.		1.20	1.68	0.166		0.679	0.909	0.982	0.997	0.895
Control	[-]	287.	291.	293.	250.	295.		-1.44	2.39	0.382		0.689	0.772	0.957	0.999	0.838
Randomized	[-]	287.	291.	293.	249.	295.		-1.39	2.38	0.399		0.693	0.768	0.956	0.999	0.837

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	303.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	305.	305.	303.	299.	303.		1.78	2.06	0.120		0.729	0.946	0.990	0.998	0.922
Control	[-]	302.	302.	303.	299.	303.		-0.963	2.38	0.267		0.739	0.834	0.980	0.997	0.877
Randomized	[-]	302.	302.	303.	299.	303.		-0.868	2.35	0.297		0.745	0.831	0.978	0.997	0.876

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	269.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	269.	269.	269.	268.	270.		0.365	1.17	0.0160		0.939	0.938	0.999	1.00	0.963
Control	[-]	268.	268.	269.	266.	270.		-1.18	2.24	0.0783		0.891	0.890	0.995	0.991	0.931
Randomized	[-]	268.	268.	269.	266.	270.		-0.904	2.12	0.0765		0.902	0.890	0.995	0.989	0.933

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	302.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	304.	304.	302.	303.	303.		1.44	1.98	0.282		0.520	0.852	0.974	0.987	0.837
Control	[-]	299.	299.	302.	301.	304.		-2.74	3.08	0.509		0.409	0.752	0.948	0.945	0.761
Randomized	[-]	299.	299.	302.	301.	304.		-2.73	3.08	0.514		0.411	0.743	0.946	0.944	0.758

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	292.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	293.	293.	292.	299.	297.		1.03	1.20	0.0615		0.877	0.963	0.996	0.997	0.959
Control	[-]	290.	290.	292.	297.	297.		-1.90	2.20	0.163		0.802	0.891	0.989	1.00	0.915
Randomized	[-]	290.	290.	292.	297.	297.		-2.03	2.39	0.207		0.791	0.877	0.986	1.00	0.906

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	280.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	280.	280.	280.	281.	282.		0.653	1.01	0.0411		0.924	0.955	0.997	0.999	0.966
Control	[-]	278.	278.	280.	280.	282.		-1.72	2.13	0.155		0.851	0.910	0.990	0.993	0.931
Randomized	[-]	278.	278.	280.	280.	282.		-1.64	2.19	0.120		0.857	0.896	0.992	0.996	0.927

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	291.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	292.	292.	291.	293.	292.		1.27	1.62	0.0451		0.842	0.940	0.997	0.999	0.944
Control	[-]	289.	289.	291.	291.	292.		-1.78	2.45	0.148		0.794	0.887	0.989	0.993	0.910
Randomized	[-]	289.	289.	291.	291.	292.		-1.79	2.51	0.132		0.792	0.880	0.990	0.993	0.907

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	304.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	306.	306.	304.	304.	304.		1.69	1.93	0.431		0.214	0.834	0.941	1.00	0.765
Control	[-]	303.	303.	304.	302.	304.		-1.36	2.23	1.11		0.368	0.357	0.855	0.904	0.568
Randomized	[-]	303.	303.	304.	302.	304.		-1.42	2.25	1.14		0.360	0.360	0.851	0.903	0.567

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	301.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	303.	303.	301.	300.	297.		1.72	1.81	0.260		0.475	0.875	0.969	0.998	0.838
Control	[-]	301.	301.	302.	299.	297.		-0.792	1.65	0.681		0.598	0.681	0.911	1.00	0.774
Randomized	[-]	301.	301.	302.	299.	297.		-0.871	1.62	0.764		0.602	0.683	0.901	1.00	0.774

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	290.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	292.	292.	290.	293.	289.		1.73	2.28	0.287		0.548	0.846	0.963	0.996	0.840
Control	[-]	289.	288.	290.	292.	289.		-1.88	3.40	0.711		0.468	0.736	0.915	0.948	0.761
Randomized	[-]	289.	288.	290.	292.	289.		-1.85	3.37	0.733		0.472	0.727	0.913	0.954	0.758

Africa - Central Africa - Sahel Africa - South Asia - East Siberia Asia - Indonesia Asia - North Central Asia - South Central Asia and China Asia - Southeast Asia and India Asia - West Siberia Australia Europe Global - Land Middle East and Sahara North America - Alaska and Northern Canada North America - Central America North America - Eastern United States North America - Southern Canada North America - Western United States South America - Amazon South America - Southeast South America - Southwest Temporally integrated period mean Temporally integrated period mean max month Temporally integrated mean phase shift Temporally integrated mean phase shift score Temporally integrated period mean bias Temporally integrated period mean bias score Temporally integrated period mean rmse Temporally integrated period mean rmse score Spatially integrated regional mean cycle Spatially integrated regional mean detrended cycle Spatially integrated regional mean

  Title:

CRU time series (TS) high-resolution gridded datasets

  Version:

4.02

  Institutions:

Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK

  Source:

monthly observations at meteorological stations across the world land areas

  History:

2019-05-06: downloaded source from https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/cru_ts_4.02/

2019-05-06: converted to netCDF with https://gist.github.com/nocollier/d73585731756fa472731065389af45dc

  References:

Harris, I., P.D. Jones, T.J. Osborn and D.H. Lister (2014), Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset, International Journal of Climatology, 34(3), 623-642, doi:10.1002/joc.3711

  Comments:

time_period: 1960-01 through 2017-12

original_temporal_resolution: monthly

original_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree

original_units: C

final_temporal_resolution: monthly

final_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree

final_units: K

  Convention:

CF-1.7