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) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	401.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	387.	387.	401.		417.		-12.1	15.8	2.31		0.291	0.396	0.635	0.916	0.527
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	401.	401.	401.		417.		2.30	10.7	2.31		0.434	0.433	0.629	0.947	0.575

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	391.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	375.	375.	392.		396.		-16.3	20.1	1.23		0.540	0.628	0.858	1.00	0.731
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	394.	394.	391.		396.		2.56	11.6	0.779		0.726	0.725	0.915	1.00	0.818

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	366.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	350.	350.	366.		381.		-12.9	17.0	1.57		0.550	0.667	0.790	0.999	0.735
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	364.	364.	365.		377.		0.727	9.88	1.11		0.760	0.697	0.867	0.996	0.803

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	241.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	235.	235.	241.		255.		-3.42	12.7	0.131		0.888	0.822	0.991	0.995	0.904
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	237.	237.	241.		254.		-0.526	11.9	0.323		0.915	0.824	0.978	0.999	0.908

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	413.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	412.	412.	412.		421.		2.67	10.1	1.56		0.317	0.535	0.765	0.597	0.550
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	418.	418.	412.		420.		8.37	11.4	2.32		0.280	0.495	0.628	0.697	0.519

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	265.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	260.	260.	265.		286.		-4.49	10.7	0.0650		0.898	0.870	0.996	0.979	0.923
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	267.	266.	265.		287.		1.46	11.7	0.0514		0.902	0.848	0.997	0.967	0.912

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	299.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	279.	279.	298.		378.		-14.9	19.9	0.100		0.729	0.805	0.992	0.992	0.865
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	290.	289.	298.		367.		-5.86	14.9	0.170		0.828	0.797	0.988	0.994	0.881

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	387.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	360.	361.	385.		412.		-17.5	23.8	1.02		0.548	0.607	0.878	0.980	0.724
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	374.	375.	386.		414.		-4.09	14.8	0.812		0.727	0.658	0.925	0.990	0.792

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	242.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	240.	240.	243.		264.		-1.74	11.3	0.314		0.935	0.822	0.979	0.994	0.910
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	246.	246.	242.		247.		5.68	13.5	0.132		0.892	0.827	0.991	0.978	0.903

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	353.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	340.	340.	352.		367.		-10.7	15.9	0.801		0.702	0.752	0.930	0.999	0.827
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	359.	359.	353.		359.		6.04	10.5	0.635		0.803	0.792	0.941	0.999	0.865

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	313.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	309.	309.	312.		331.		-0.443	10.3	0.330		0.812	0.793	0.978	0.988	0.873
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	311.	311.	312.		334.		1.01	10.5	0.499		0.826	0.788	0.966	0.960	0.866

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	317.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	299.	299.	315.		382.		-11.9	17.9	0.759		0.617	0.701	0.902	0.998	0.784
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	310.	309.	316.		379.		-2.00	13.3	0.673		0.720	0.719	0.919	0.996	0.815

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	347.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	326.	326.	348.		375.		-20.7	22.4	0.201		0.587	0.817	0.985	0.997	0.840
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	339.	339.	347.		372.		-6.06	12.9	0.402		0.753	0.817	0.964	0.997	0.869

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	247.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	241.	240.	246.		260.		-6.27	18.6	0.361		0.857	0.717	0.976	0.992	0.852
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	248.	248.	247.		267.		1.29	14.5	0.225		0.897	0.776	0.985	0.988	0.884

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	377.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	356.	356.	375.		406.		-8.17	16.0	1.49		0.535	0.653	0.793	0.998	0.727
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	360.	360.	375.		401.		-2.72	12.8	1.04		0.622	0.721	0.862	0.998	0.785

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	334.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	321.	322.	333.		375.		-7.75	11.3	0.252		0.838	0.844	0.983	0.994	0.901
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	326.	327.	333.		383.		-3.53	11.7	0.269		0.900	0.792	0.982	1.00	0.893

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	278.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	271.	271.	278.		307.		-4.87	13.2	0.328		0.833	0.796	0.978	0.993	0.879
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	277.	277.	278.		311.		1.45	11.0	0.131		0.871	0.826	0.991	0.999	0.903

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	297.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	283.	284.	297.		325.		-12.4	15.7	0.570		0.685	0.822	0.962	0.999	0.858
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	290.	291.	297.		328.		-5.00	12.1	0.468		0.780	0.789	0.968	0.994	0.864

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	413.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	397.	397.	411.		417.		-13.7	19.3	3.34		0.279	0.362	0.429	1.00	0.486
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	413.	413.	413.		418.		0.377	13.0	2.47		0.425	0.472	0.615	0.994	0.595

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	380.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	359.	358.	379.		376.		-20.4	22.7	1.24		0.416	0.707	0.830	0.992	0.731
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	378.	377.	380.		375.		-2.61	10.4	1.11		0.735	0.759	0.874	0.996	0.824

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	304.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	290.	290.	303.		345.		-5.93	23.5	0.667		0.457	0.589	0.946	0.990	0.714
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	298.	297.	303.		337.		-0.210	22.6	0.464		0.440	0.586	0.968	0.988	0.714

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:

CERES EBAF TOA and Surface Fluxes

  Version:

Ed4.1

  Institutions:

NASA Langley Research Center

  Source:

Monthly mean surface fluxes calculated by a radiative transfer model and constrained by the combined Terra and Aqua SSF1deg measurements

  History:

2019-06-25: downloaded source from https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/products-info.php?product=EBAF

2019-08-13: converted to netCDF with https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-llds-ceres.py

  References:

Loeb, N.G., D.R. Doelling, H. Wang, W. Su, C. Nguyen, J.G. Corbett, L. Liang, C. Mitrescu, F.G. Rose, and S. Kato (2018), Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) Top-of-Atmosphere (TOA) Edition-4.0 Data Product, Journal of Climate, 31(2), 895-918, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0208.1

Kato, S., F. G. Rose, D. A. Rutan, T. E. Thorsen, N. G. Loeb, D. R. Doelling, X. Huang, W. L. Smith, W. Su, and S.-H. Ham (2018), Surface irradiances of Edition 4.0 Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) data product, Journal of Climate, 31, 4501-4527, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0523.1

  Comments:

time_period: 2000-01 through 2018-12

original_temporal_resolution: monthly

original_spatial_resolution: 1 degree

original_units: W m-2

final_temporal_resolution: monthly

final_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree

final_units: W m-2

  Convention:

CF-1.7