Global - Land

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	69.0
norman_atkin_ball-berry_acclim	[-]	68.3	68.2	66.0		94.4		2.20	14.7	1.94		0.451	0.384	0.708	0.984	0.582
norman_atkin_ball-berry_no-acclim	[-]	68.3	68.2	66.0		94.4		2.16	14.7	1.93		0.453	0.384	0.709	0.983	0.583
norman_atkin_medlyn_acclim	[-]	68.4	68.3	66.0		94.4		2.27	14.7	1.93		0.450	0.385	0.708	0.984	0.582
norman_atkin_medlyn_no-acclim	[-]	68.4	68.2	66.0		94.4		2.23	14.7	1.93		0.452	0.385	0.709	0.984	0.583
norman_ryan_ball-berry-acclim	[-]	68.4	68.3	66.0		94.4		2.27	14.7	1.93		0.449	0.384	0.709	0.984	0.582
norman_ryan_ball-berry_no-acclim	[-]	68.4	68.2	66.0		94.4		2.23	14.7	1.93		0.451	0.384	0.709	0.984	0.582
norman_ryan_medlyn-no-acclim	[-]	68.5	68.3	66.0		94.4		2.30	14.7	1.93		0.449	0.385	0.709	0.984	0.582
norman_ryan_medlyn_acclim	[-]	68.5	68.3	66.0		94.4		2.34	14.7	1.93		0.448	0.385	0.709	0.984	0.582
two-stream_atkin_ball-berry_acclim	[-]	68.2	68.1	66.0		94.4		2.08	14.7	1.92		0.454	0.384	0.711	0.983	0.583
two-stream_atkin_ball-berry_no-acclim	[-]	68.2	68.0	66.0		94.4		2.04	14.6	1.92		0.455	0.384	0.711	0.983	0.583
two-stream_atkin_medlyn_acclim	[-]	68.3	68.2	66.0		94.4		2.15	14.7	1.92		0.453	0.385	0.711	0.984	0.583
two-stream_atkin_medlyn_no-acclim	[-]	68.3	68.1	66.0		94.4		2.11	14.6	1.92		0.454	0.385	0.711	0.983	0.584
two-stream_ryan_ball-berry_acclim	[-]	68.3	68.1	66.0		94.4		2.14	14.7	1.92		0.452	0.384	0.712	0.984	0.583
two-stream_ryan_ball-berry_no-acclim	[-]	68.3	68.1	66.0		94.4		2.10	14.6	1.92		0.453	0.384	0.711	0.983	0.583
two-stream_ryan_medlyn_acclim	[-]	68.4	68.2	66.0		94.4		2.21	14.7	1.92		0.451	0.384	0.712	0.984	0.583
two-stream_ryan_medlyn_no-acclim	[-]	68.3	68.2	66.0		94.4		2.18	14.7	1.92		0.452	0.385	0.711	0.984	0.583

Global - Land 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/

2019-05-08: estimate saturated vapor pressure using temperature

2019-05-08: calculate relative humidity using saturated vapor pressure and vapor pressure

2019-05-08: converted to ILAMB required netCDF with https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-rhums-cru.py

  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

WMO CIMO Guide (2008), ANNEX 4.B. FORMULAE FOR THE COMPUTATION OF MEASURES OF HUMIDITY, MEASUREMENT OF HUMIDITY, Chapter 4, 163, https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=3151

  Comments:

time_period: 1980-01 through 2017-12

original_temporal_resolution: monthly

original_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree

original_units: hPa

final_temporal_resolution: monthly

final_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree

final_units: %

  Convention:

CF-1.7