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Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]
Bias [Watt m-2]
RMSE [Watt m-2]
Phase Shift [months]
Bias Score [1]
RMSE Score [1]
Seasonal Cycle Score [1]
Interannual Variability Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 357.
LMBIRCH [-] 365. -15.4 17.3 0.00 0.174 0.810 1.00 0.632 0.685
PPE [-] 365. -16.3 19.5 0.00 0.170 0.771 1.00 0.466 0.635
PPE_FINAL [-] 364. -17.7 19.8 0.00 0.164 0.788 1.00 0.472 0.642
PPE_FINAL3 [-] 363. -17.5 19.2 0.00 0.165 0.794 1.00 0.472 0.645
R15 [-] 366. -14.7 16.5 0.00 0.177 0.814 1.00 0.484 0.658
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Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]
Bias [Watt m-2]
RMSE [Watt m-2]
Phase Shift [months]
Bias Score [1]
RMSE Score [1]
Seasonal Cycle Score [1]
Interannual Variability Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 359.
LMBIRCH [-] 370. -0.778 14.8 0.0689 0.260 0.818 0.995 0.480 0.674
PPE [-] 371. -0.382 16.1 0.0689 0.255 0.799 0.995 0.441 0.658
PPE_FINAL [-] 370. -1.58 15.5 0.0689 0.257 0.808 0.995 0.444 0.662
PPE_FINAL3 [-] 369. -1.63 14.9 0.0689 0.260 0.813 0.995 0.449 0.666
R15 [-] 372. 0.362 15.4 0.138 0.256 0.814 0.991 0.445 0.664
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Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]
Bias [Watt m-2]
RMSE [Watt m-2]
Phase Shift [months]
Bias Score [1]
RMSE Score [1]
Seasonal Cycle Score [1]
Interannual Variability Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 457.
LMBIRCH [-] 450. 7.58 9.35 0.00 0.287 0.905 1.00 0.328 0.685
PPE [-] 451. 7.56 9.33 0.00 0.287 0.904 1.00 0.328 0.685
PPE_FINAL [-] 450. 7.55 9.32 0.00 0.287 0.905 1.00 0.328 0.685
PPE_FINAL3 [-] 450. 7.55 9.32 0.00 0.287 0.905 1.00 0.328 0.685
R15 [-] 451. 7.63 9.39 0.00 0.286 0.905 1.00 0.328 0.685
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Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]
Bias [Watt m-2]
RMSE [Watt m-2]
Phase Shift [months]
Bias Score [1]
RMSE Score [1]
Seasonal Cycle Score [1]
Interannual Variability Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 273.
LMBIRCH [-] 259. 8.60 11.6 0.00 0.424 0.889 1.00 0.482 0.737
PPE [-] 258. 7.21 11.1 0.00 0.435 0.869 1.00 0.495 0.734
PPE_FINAL [-] 257. 6.63 10.4 0.00 0.440 0.875 1.00 0.499 0.738
PPE_FINAL3 [-] 257. 6.68 10.5 0.00 0.440 0.874 1.00 0.498 0.737
R15 [-] 259. 8.89 11.8 0.00 0.422 0.888 1.00 0.480 0.735
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Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]
Bias [Watt m-2]
RMSE [Watt m-2]
Phase Shift [months]
Bias Score [1]
RMSE Score [1]
Seasonal Cycle Score [1]
Interannual Variability Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 378.
LMBIRCH [-] 388. 3.62 6.38 0.00 0.658 0.902 1.00 0.697 0.832
PPE [-] 390. 5.72 9.00 0.00 0.629 0.873 1.00 0.674 0.810
PPE_FINAL [-] 388. 3.65 7.07 0.00 0.651 0.889 1.00 0.685 0.823
PPE_FINAL3 [-] 388. 2.65 6.13 0.00 0.666 0.898 1.00 0.698 0.832
R15 [-] 391. 6.30 8.62 0.00 0.628 0.892 1.00 0.689 0.820
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Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]
Bias [Watt m-2]
RMSE [Watt m-2]
Phase Shift [months]
Bias Score [1]
RMSE Score [1]
Seasonal Cycle Score [1]
Interannual Variability Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 379.
LMBIRCH [-] 372. -7.17 10.7 0.00 0.871 0.881 1.00 0.939 0.914
PPE [-] 372. -7.60 11.0 0.00 0.866 0.875 1.00 0.952 0.914
PPE_FINAL [-] 371. -8.59 11.6 0.00 0.859 0.877 1.00 0.940 0.911
PPE_FINAL3 [-] 372. -7.67 10.8 0.00 0.867 0.880 1.00 0.952 0.916
R15 [-] 373. -6.73 10.5 0.258 0.878 0.878 0.983 0.938 0.911

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Data Information

  Title:
derived WRMC BSRN

  Source_file:
This product is generated from monthly WRMC.BSRN observations

  Conventions:
Please contact Prof. James Randerson (Email: jranders@uci.edu) or Dr. Mingquan Mu (mmu@uci.edu) for any question

  Altitude:
BSRN

  Site_name:
ASP,BAR,BER,BIL,BON,BOS,BOU,BRB,CAB,CAM,CAR,CLH,CNR,COC,DAA,DAR,DOM,DRA,DWN,E13,EUR,FLO,FPE,FUA,GCR,GVN,ILO,ISH,IZA,KWA,LAU,LER,LIN,MAN,MNM,NAU,NYA,PAL,PAY,PSU,PTR,REG,RLM,SAP,SBO,SMS,SOV,SPO,SXF,SYO,TAM,TAT,TIK,TOR,XIA

  Creation_date:
Sun Jun 22 23:45:11 PDT 2014

  Approach:
First I used BSRN Toolbox to extract lwup (surface upward longwave radiation) from raw data files, and saved the data in ascii format, then I organized all site data together for each month and year and saved them in a netcdf file.

  Temporal resolution:
monthly

  General information:
This product was derived from WRMC-BSRN radiation dataset.

  Spatial resolution:
site observations

  Derived data code:
http://redwood.ess.uci.edu/mingquan/www/ILAMB/Download/CODES/CODES/subroutines/convert/convert-WRMC.BSRN.ncl