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	[-]	293.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	294.	294.	293.	297.	296.		0.771	1.07	0.563		0.430	0.647	0.941	0.999	0.733
Control	[-]	294.	294.	293.	298.	296.		1.52	1.88	1.22		0.241	0.542	0.852	1.00	0.636
Randomized	[-]	294.	294.	293.	298.	296.		1.53	1.89	1.31		0.239	0.543	0.836	1.00	0.632

	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	[-]	293.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	294.	294.	293.	296.	295.		1.17	1.34	0.196		0.612	0.877	0.983	0.989	0.868
Control	[-]	295.	295.	293.	298.	295.		1.47	2.17	0.566		0.565	0.647	0.954	0.967	0.756
Randomized	[-]	295.	295.	293.	298.	295.		1.52	2.18	0.566		0.561	0.646	0.953	0.966	0.754

	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	[-]	289.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	289.	289.	289.	293.	293.		0.943	1.18	0.539		0.663	0.894	0.934	1.00	0.877
Control	[-]	291.	290.	289.	295.	293.		1.96	2.32	1.20		0.498	0.747	0.836	0.996	0.765
Randomized	[-]	291.	291.	289.	295.	293.		2.00	2.36	1.22		0.493	0.742	0.834	0.996	0.761

	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	[-]	257.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	257.	257.	257.	264.	262.		0.458	1.20	0.0290		0.931	0.961	0.998	0.999	0.970
Control	[-]	260.	260.	257.	264.	262.		3.27	4.67	0.0828		0.817	0.843	0.994	0.820	0.863
Randomized	[-]	260.	260.	257.	264.	262.		3.37	4.67	0.0762		0.813	0.848	0.995	0.807	0.862

	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	[-]	294.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	295.	295.	294.	297.	295.		1.21	1.54	1.25		0.235	0.753	0.805	0.961	0.701
Control	[-]	295.	295.	294.	298.	295.		1.03	2.07	1.54		0.193	0.589	0.759	0.963	0.619
Randomized	[-]	295.	295.	294.	298.	295.		1.08	2.09	1.63		0.197	0.568	0.742	0.960	0.607

	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	[-]	265.	265.	266.	272.	270.		-0.210	0.876	0.0213		0.945	0.970	0.999	0.997	0.976
Control	[-]	268.	267.	266.	272.	270.		1.40	2.33	0.0375		0.890	0.909	0.997	0.931	0.927
Randomized	[-]	268.	268.	266.	272.	270.		1.53	2.47	0.0440		0.889	0.899	0.997	0.929	0.923

	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	[-]	274.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	275.	275.	274.	285.	284.		0.622	1.30	0.0194		0.881	0.957	0.999	0.999	0.959
Control	[-]	276.	276.	275.	286.	284.		1.79	2.59	0.0613		0.801	0.915	0.996	0.997	0.925
Randomized	[-]	277.	276.	275.	286.	284.		1.82	2.62	0.0546		0.801	0.910	0.996	0.998	0.923

	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.	297.	296.		0.771	1.43	0.264		0.707	0.905	0.978	0.999	0.899
Control	[-]	292.	292.	292.	298.	296.		1.06	2.41	0.386		0.628	0.791	0.967	0.974	0.830
Randomized	[-]	292.	292.	292.	298.	296.		1.10	2.42	0.382		0.626	0.791	0.967	0.973	0.829

	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	[-]	259.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	259.	259.	259.	264.	260.		-0.112	0.832	0.0166		0.957	0.967	0.999	1.00	0.978
Control	[-]	261.	261.	260.	263.	261.		0.883	2.61	0.0480		0.919	0.871	0.997	0.961	0.924
Randomized	[-]	261.	261.	260.	264.	261.		1.29	2.71	0.0814		0.909	0.871	0.995	0.956	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	[-]	288.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	289.	289.	288.	290.	289.		1.08	1.17	0.145		0.782	0.945	0.990	1.00	0.932
Control	[-]	291.	291.	288.	292.	289.		2.55	2.69	0.229		0.590	0.878	0.982	0.995	0.865
Randomized	[-]	291.	291.	288.	292.	289.		2.60	2.74	0.284		0.584	0.878	0.979	0.994	0.863

	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	[-]	278.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	277.	277.	278.	281.	282.		-0.0631	0.995	0.376		0.857	0.944	0.975	0.996	0.943
Control	[-]	278.	278.	278.	282.	282.		0.461	1.40	0.408		0.825	0.911	0.973	0.998	0.923
Randomized	[-]	278.	278.	278.	282.	282.		0.581	1.47	0.387		0.821	0.900	0.974	0.998	0.919

	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	[-]	281.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	277.	281.	281.	245.	286.		0.660	1.22	0.273		0.757	0.911	0.968	0.999	0.909
Control	[-]	278.	282.	281.	245.	286.		1.58	2.36	0.580		0.665	0.815	0.926	1.00	0.844
Randomized	[-]	278.	282.	281.	245.	286.		1.67	2.41	0.600		0.662	0.810	0.923	0.999	0.841

	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	[-]	289.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	289.	289.	289.	292.	292.		0.640	1.09	0.265		0.849	0.938	0.979	1.00	0.941
Control	[-]	290.	290.	289.	293.	292.		1.05	1.95	0.530		0.776	0.867	0.953	0.998	0.892
Randomized	[-]	290.	290.	289.	294.	292.		1.23	2.02	0.542		0.769	0.865	0.951	0.998	0.890

	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	[-]	260.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	261.	260.	260.	263.	262.		0.425	1.04	0.0470		0.937	0.957	0.997	0.999	0.970
Control	[-]	262.	262.	261.	261.	263.		1.40	2.21	0.107		0.890	0.898	0.993	0.997	0.935
Randomized	[-]	262.	262.	261.	262.	263.		1.67	2.40	0.115		0.876	0.894	0.992	0.996	0.930

	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	[-]	289.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	289.	289.	289.	294.	293.		1.37	1.85	0.291		0.561	0.866	0.975	0.999	0.853
Control	[-]	290.	290.	289.	296.	294.		2.21	2.92	0.559		0.450	0.773	0.951	0.999	0.789
Randomized	[-]	291.	290.	289.	296.	294.		2.29	2.98	0.693		0.443	0.766	0.937	0.999	0.782

	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	[-]	281.	281.	280.	289.	287.		0.978	1.11	0.0389		0.884	0.959	0.997	1.00	0.960
Control	[-]	282.	282.	280.	291.	287.		1.89	2.01	0.120		0.799	0.938	0.992	1.00	0.933
Randomized	[-]	282.	282.	280.	291.	287.		1.83	2.01	0.188		0.805	0.921	0.987	1.00	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	[-]	269.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	269.	269.	269.	274.	275.		0.370	0.847	0.0369		0.924	0.959	0.998	0.998	0.967
Control	[-]	270.	270.	269.	275.	275.		1.53	2.02	0.201		0.845	0.918	0.987	1.00	0.933
Randomized	[-]	270.	270.	269.	275.	275.		1.62	2.18	0.166		0.839	0.904	0.989	1.00	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	[-]	276.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	277.	277.	276.	283.	281.		1.45	1.84	0.0651		0.792	0.926	0.996	0.998	0.927
Control	[-]	279.	279.	276.	285.	281.		3.42	3.72	0.218		0.635	0.877	0.985	1.00	0.875
Randomized	[-]	279.	279.	276.	285.	281.		3.49	3.81	0.212		0.629	0.864	0.985	1.00	0.869

	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	[-]	294.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	295.	295.	294.	297.	295.		0.886	1.22	1.11		0.371	0.768	0.833	0.996	0.747
Control	[-]	295.	295.	294.	298.	295.		0.880	1.65	3.11		0.325	0.520	0.477	0.984	0.565
Randomized	[-]	295.	295.	294.	298.	295.		0.880	1.63	3.13		0.327	0.524	0.476	0.984	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	[-]	290.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	291.	291.	290.	293.	288.		0.956	1.11	0.495		0.649	0.897	0.933	0.999	0.875
Control	[-]	292.	292.	290.	294.	288.		1.76	2.07	0.762		0.505	0.775	0.895	0.999	0.790
Randomized	[-]	292.	292.	290.	294.	288.		1.71	2.03	0.838		0.511	0.773	0.890	0.999	0.789

	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	[-]	278.
CLM5_GSWP3V1	[-]	279.	278.	278.	284.	281.		1.20	2.02	0.122		0.594	0.888	0.990	1.00	0.872
Control	[-]	280.	279.	278.	286.	281.		2.11	3.20	0.568		0.483	0.789	0.936	0.946	0.788
Randomized	[-]	280.	279.	278.	286.	281.		2.13	3.22	0.668		0.479	0.780	0.930	0.949	0.784

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