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	[-]	215.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	215.	214.	214.		220.		-0.911	21.9	1.06		0.619	0.444	0.856	0.923	0.657
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	210.	209.	215.		216.		-6.28	19.8	1.31		0.621	0.501	0.803	0.947	0.675

	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	[-]	243.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	240.	241.	242.		238.		-0.653	22.3	0.568		0.730	0.434	0.952	0.944	0.699
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	224.	225.	243.		238.		-18.4	25.1	0.826		0.443	0.555	0.920	0.950	0.685

	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	[-]	233.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	243.	243.	233.		231.		8.70	19.5	0.904		0.645	0.610	0.876	0.959	0.740
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	240.	240.	233.		234.		6.42	17.5	1.19		0.688	0.639	0.828	0.990	0.757

	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	[-]	111.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	103.	103.	111.		106.		-6.71	16.1	0.276		0.907	0.851	0.981	0.984	0.915
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	107.	107.	111.		108.		-3.73	12.2	0.649		0.932	0.883	0.950	0.868	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	[-]	209.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	195.	195.	207.		219.		-6.05	16.6	1.39		0.652	0.578	0.812	0.997	0.723
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	206.	206.	208.		220.		6.12	18.9	1.93		0.591	0.529	0.707	0.945	0.660

	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	[-]	127.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	131.	131.	127.		148.		4.55	13.8	0.478		0.901	0.881	0.961	0.973	0.920
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	130.	130.	127.		147.		3.41	15.6	0.673		0.925	0.843	0.947	0.936	0.899

	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	[-]	174.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	199.	199.	175.		168.		23.1	29.6	0.601		0.698	0.790	0.944	0.997	0.843
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	192.	191.	174.		166.		16.3	24.9	0.656		0.769	0.770	0.940	0.998	0.850

	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	[-]	210.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	230.	230.	209.		217.		19.8	30.7	0.415		0.577	0.627	0.967	0.961	0.752
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	218.	218.	210.		216.		8.87	21.9	0.470		0.740	0.619	0.958	0.999	0.787

	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	[-]	101.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	94.9	95.2	99.2		80.2		-4.82	12.4	0.383		0.940	0.880	0.973	0.986	0.932
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	93.6	93.8	101.		87.0		-8.28	16.5	0.558		0.911	0.851	0.951	0.944	0.902

	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	[-]	235.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	244.	244.	235.		219.		3.67	15.2	0.477		0.859	0.815	0.967	0.945	0.880
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	226.	226.	235.		213.		-13.1	20.3	0.523		0.787	0.791	0.957	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	[-]	141.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	152.	152.	142.		161.		12.6	19.9	0.258		0.842	0.864	0.983	0.979	0.906
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	149.	149.	140.		169.		11.3	20.3	0.409		0.853	0.843	0.971	0.978	0.897

	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	[-]	186.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	199.	199.	186.		211.		11.2	21.1	0.562		0.745	0.762	0.943	0.988	0.840
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	192.	192.	186.		206.		5.62	19.2	0.641		0.773	0.764	0.930	0.997	0.846

	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	[-]	251.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	268.	268.	249.		244.		17.7	21.9	0.395		0.714	0.850	0.972	0.999	0.877
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	257.	256.	251.		241.		4.46	15.8	0.454		0.816	0.838	0.960	0.980	0.887

	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	[-]	114.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	111.	111.	113.		106.		-2.43	16.1	0.543		0.935	0.852	0.963	0.937	0.908
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	112.	111.	114.		109.		-3.02	14.8	0.399		0.926	0.869	0.971	0.872	0.901

	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	[-]	229.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	239.	239.	230.		228.		9.18	18.6	0.643		0.743	0.724	0.924	0.986	0.820
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	241.	241.	229.		230.		11.2	19.2	0.702		0.718	0.737	0.912	0.996	0.820

	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	[-]	176.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	204.	204.	177.		204.		27.4	30.5	0.640		0.661	0.865	0.954	0.973	0.864
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	201.	201.	176.		211.		26.0	29.7	0.432		0.668	0.850	0.964	0.998	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	[-]	135.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	150.	150.	135.		141.		14.3	19.2	0.599		0.831	0.885	0.958	0.821	0.876
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	150.	150.	135.		125.		14.0	20.5	0.255		0.835	0.854	0.982	0.864	0.878

	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	[-]	201.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	221.	222.	202.		186.		19.6	24.3	0.221		0.782	0.879	0.985	0.988	0.903
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	221.	222.	201.		204.		19.5	24.3	0.360		0.783	0.881	0.975	1.00	0.904

	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	[-]	201.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	224.	224.	201.		237.		22.9	30.2	1.24		0.344	0.452	0.841	0.993	0.617
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	208.	208.	200.		235.		8.44	20.1	1.27		0.547	0.512	0.830	0.996	0.680

	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	[-]	213.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	238.	239.	214.		220.		23.3	28.0	0.858		0.555	0.695	0.903	0.998	0.769
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	226.	227.	213.		213.		13.3	20.0	0.886		0.688	0.708	0.906	0.998	0.802

	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	[-]	205.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	216.	215.	207.		200.		5.66	30.3	0.869		0.721	0.717	0.892	0.962	0.802
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	219.	218.	206.		181.		9.04	30.2	0.828		0.708	0.729	0.909	0.951	0.805

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-rsds-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