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) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	27.2
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	25.6	25.7	27.3	26.9	7.35		-1.55	4.79	1.82		0.373	0.537	0.723	0.873	0.608
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	25.8	25.8	27.2	24.6			-1.43	4.64	1.09		0.379	0.559	0.849	0.852	0.640

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	20.4
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	25.2	25.2	20.4	22.5	10.3		4.76	6.51	0.646		0.404	0.618	0.941	0.826	0.681
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	21.6	21.6	20.4	17.8	12.8		1.19	5.00	0.509		0.515	0.654	0.942	0.680	0.689

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	20.3
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	24.2	24.2	20.3	24.2	13.8		3.84	5.76	0.922		0.422	0.666	0.882	0.891	0.705
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	22.0	22.0	20.3	21.8	12.0		1.68	5.18	0.949		0.455	0.703	0.897	0.964	0.744

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	31.4
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	42.5	42.7	31.4	39.4	28.6		11.1	12.5	0.521		0.211	0.358	0.957	0.431	0.463
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	41.4	41.5	31.4	40.3	28.3		9.96	11.2	0.588		0.216	0.348	0.950	0.479	0.468

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	34.5
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	38.7	39.1	34.7	38.1	25.6		4.52	7.10	1.71		0.229	0.440	0.747	0.759	0.523
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	34.1	35.0	34.5	32.6	29.7		0.210	6.51	2.03		0.221	0.393	0.682	0.697	0.477

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	31.8
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	37.2	37.3	31.7	32.6			5.59	8.41	0.556		0.288	0.295	0.924	0.656	0.491
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	34.8	34.8	31.8	33.8			2.93	7.29	0.543		0.333	0.295	0.928	0.618	0.493

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	23.3
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	27.4	27.6	23.4	27.5	24.2		4.30	5.69	1.94		0.332	0.521	0.686	0.981	0.608
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	26.7	26.8	23.3	27.0	24.1		3.59	6.00	2.05		0.350	0.467	0.676	0.985	0.589

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	24.6
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	27.7	27.2	24.7	30.9	23.8		2.56	5.66	0.947		0.481	0.570	0.887	0.942	0.690
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	25.3	24.9	24.6	27.6	27.1		0.358	5.05	0.962		0.503	0.607	0.888	0.965	0.714

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	33.9
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	53.6	53.6	33.9	53.1			19.8	21.5	0.654		0.0864	0.228	0.936	0.525	0.401
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	54.0	53.8	33.9	54.9			20.0	21.5	0.725		0.0683	0.193	0.922	0.513	0.378

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	15.7
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	22.8	22.7	15.8	25.4	26.6		7.00	7.28	0.781		0.268	0.695	0.903	0.876	0.687
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	21.3	21.2	15.7	23.5	12.9		5.71	6.42	0.906		0.329	0.673	0.895	0.883	0.691

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	28.6
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	32.7	33.1	28.5	29.2			4.29	7.00	0.629		0.374	0.461	0.944	0.725	0.593
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	31.0	31.5	28.6	28.0			2.55	7.22	0.669		0.420	0.361	0.941	0.670	0.551

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	23.9
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	28.9	28.8	23.9	29.8	15.9		5.00	7.67	1.05		0.296	0.486	0.860	0.879	0.602
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	27.8	27.8	23.9	28.2	17.3		3.98	7.22	1.06		0.327	0.480	0.860	0.871	0.604

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	10.4
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	16.1	16.0	10.4	17.5	8.39		5.61	6.35	1.33		0.182	0.488	0.814	0.856	0.566
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	15.3	15.2	10.4	16.9	8.37		4.89	5.51	1.41		0.175	0.543	0.801	0.891	0.590

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	30.6
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	47.1	47.8	30.6	42.8			17.1	18.2	0.820		0.0333	0.184	0.913	0.668	0.396
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	47.4	48.3	30.6	42.1			17.5	18.5	0.845		0.0363	0.164	0.911	0.680	0.391

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	21.9
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	28.7	28.7	22.1	28.8	21.3		6.76	7.63	0.869		0.287	0.625	0.894	0.985	0.684
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	25.7	25.9	21.9	25.0	12.3		4.39	6.18	1.10		0.380	0.600	0.844	0.978	0.680

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	30.1
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	32.5	32.7	30.1	31.3	17.8		2.55	5.64	0.712		0.383	0.475	0.934	0.983	0.650
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	29.6	29.7	30.1	29.9			-0.424	6.77	0.697		0.409	0.302	0.935	0.874	0.565

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	29.5
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	37.3	37.4	29.4	37.3			8.09	11.4	0.552		0.152	0.159	0.937	0.961	0.473
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	37.0	37.2	29.5	37.9	24.1		7.80	11.9	0.351		0.172	0.107	0.969	0.902	0.451

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	21.3
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	27.5	27.5	21.3	24.6			6.17	7.01	0.840		0.280	0.641	0.914	0.973	0.690
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	24.5	24.4	21.3	24.2			3.12	5.17	0.877		0.453	0.584	0.901	0.974	0.699

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	33.9
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	29.7	29.8	33.9	29.3			-4.10	7.16	0.735		0.301	0.357	0.920	0.867	0.561
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	32.8	33.0	33.9	28.2			-0.902	5.78	0.702		0.377	0.423	0.934	0.764	0.584

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	26.9
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	25.7	25.7	26.9	23.2	19.6		-1.31	4.81	0.963		0.453	0.643	0.879	0.989	0.721
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	26.0	25.9	26.9	25.3			-0.929	5.28	1.13		0.428	0.640	0.853	0.963	0.705

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [kg m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [kg m-2]		Bias [kg m-2]	RMSE [kg m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	19.1
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	26.9	27.0	19.0	27.7	10.5		7.80	8.71	0.895		0.219	0.507	0.898	0.941	0.614
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	27.3	27.6	19.1	25.4	24.3		8.47	9.40	0.930		0.194	0.548	0.893	0.949	0.626

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:

Observation-based global multilayer soil moisture products for 1970 to 2016

  Version:

1

  Institutions:

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Source:

Offline land surface models, reanalysis, and satellite soil moisture datasets combined using the Optimal Linear Combination technique of Hobeichi, 2018 (doi:10.5194/hess-22-1317-2018)

  History:

2021-09-14: downloaded https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-v8QmowHzZrvUHWUdmSJw5rtwfxYJnfA/view?usp=sharing

2021-09-14: selected top 10cm, converted unit from vol-% to kg m-2

  References:

Wang, Y. and Mao, J. and Jin, M. and Hoffman, F. M. and Shi, X. and Wullschleger, S. D. and Dai, Y. (2021), Development of observation-based global multilayer soil moisture products for 1970 to 2016, Earth System Science Data, 4385--4405, 10.5194/essd-13-4385-2021

  Comments:

time_period: 1970-01 through 2016-12

temporal_resolution: monthly

spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree

units: kg m-2

  Convention:

CF-1.8