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) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.141
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.183	0.182	0.139		0.0512		0.0430	0.0505	3.42		0.147	0.418	0.424	0.788	0.439
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.180	0.179	0.143		0.0532		0.0364	0.0449	3.63		0.196	0.389	0.387	0.828	0.438

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.178
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.184	0.185	0.177		0.0632		0.00694	0.0354	3.21		0.292	0.341	0.476	0.819	0.454
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.193	0.194	0.178		0.0571		0.0141	0.0369	3.09		0.297	0.288	0.468	0.897	0.448

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.141
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.166	0.166	0.141		0.0622		0.0247	0.0347	3.00		0.276	0.415	0.504	0.763	0.474
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.160	0.160	0.142		0.0616		0.0176	0.0317	3.02		0.343	0.396	0.497	0.814	0.489

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.360
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.385	0.386	0.358		0.345		0.0278	0.108	0.415		0.816	0.709	0.954	0.990	0.836
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.377	0.377	0.360		0.363		0.0168	0.0895	0.505		0.838	0.735	0.947	0.956	0.842

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.0894
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.169	0.169	0.0905		0.0566		0.0781	0.0789	2.86		0.0256	0.506	0.530	0.150	0.343
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.167	0.167	0.0930		0.0573		0.0740	0.0750	2.96		0.0410	0.480	0.516	0.0735	0.318

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.210
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.224	0.223	0.207		0.130		0.0164	0.0601	0.826		0.830	0.707	0.921	0.931	0.819
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.209	0.209	0.210		0.123		-0.00104	0.0618	1.02		0.869	0.691	0.897	0.869	0.803

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.190
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.216	0.217	0.193		0.0561		0.0233	0.0673	1.29		0.552	0.530	0.821	0.960	0.679
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.208	0.208	0.191		0.0563		0.0163	0.0707	1.39		0.559	0.493	0.799	0.903	0.649

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.131
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.182	0.181	0.132		0.0603		0.0490	0.0558	3.14		0.137	0.355	0.479	0.981	0.462
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.182	0.181	0.133		0.0572		0.0480	0.0561	3.43		0.136	0.343	0.423	0.928	0.435

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.372
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.402	0.398	0.361		0.239		0.0372	0.0869	0.574		0.823	0.743	0.950	0.994	0.851
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.389	0.385	0.371		0.406		0.0136	0.0778	0.598		0.858	0.752	0.946	0.984	0.858

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.147
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.173	0.173	0.150		0.0562		0.0230	0.0359	2.59		0.314	0.520	0.582	0.446	0.476
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.178	0.178	0.149		0.0581		0.0290	0.0361	2.45		0.263	0.490	0.608	0.649	0.500

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.139
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.184	0.184	0.141		0.0573		0.0433	0.0607	1.43		0.444	0.543	0.782	0.883	0.639
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.179	0.179	0.141		0.0581		0.0382	0.0599	1.33		0.469	0.532	0.815	0.882	0.646

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.252
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.284	0.284	0.253		0.0765		0.0311	0.0565	2.01		0.402	0.505	0.682	0.996	0.618
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.280	0.281	0.254		0.0778		0.0258	0.0552	2.16		0.418	0.485	0.656	0.997	0.608

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.284
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.303	0.302	0.285		0.0648		0.0168	0.0479	2.60		0.274	0.390	0.587	0.913	0.511
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.305	0.305	0.287		0.0618		0.0171	0.0479	2.88		0.263	0.386	0.534	0.919	0.497

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.388
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.432	0.432	0.384		0.365		0.0493	0.0992	0.564		0.749	0.739	0.943	0.988	0.832
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.418	0.418	0.388		0.336		0.0301	0.0968	0.569		0.779	0.726	0.939	0.994	0.833

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.111
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.165	0.165	0.113		0.0517		0.0508	0.0559	3.11		0.139	0.429	0.480	0.493	0.394
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.164	0.164	0.114		0.0549		0.0489	0.0552	3.20		0.140	0.434	0.462	0.416	0.377

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.143
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.178	0.178	0.146		0.0524		0.0315	0.0490	2.04		0.406	0.499	0.663	0.842	0.582
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.182	0.182	0.145		0.0533		0.0372	0.0542	2.16		0.354	0.454	0.666	0.932	0.572

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.176
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.217	0.217	0.178		0.0673		0.0402	0.0701	0.971		0.674	0.676	0.893	0.946	0.773
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.218	0.218	0.176		0.0739		0.0420	0.0739	0.749		0.663	0.670	0.931	0.971	0.781

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.181
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.205	0.204	0.184		0.0597		0.0202	0.0617	1.09		0.573	0.460	0.857	0.993	0.669
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.188	0.188	0.181		0.0953		0.00621	0.0402	1.23		0.650	0.520	0.832	0.950	0.694

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.128
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.168	0.168	0.128		0.0452		0.0404	0.0417	3.01		0.104	0.494	0.503	0.414	0.402
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.164	0.165	0.129		0.0517		0.0359	0.0381	3.32		0.148	0.468	0.442	0.399	0.385

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.137
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.167	0.166	0.140		0.0536		0.0263	0.0311	3.41		0.209	0.362	0.423	0.502	0.372
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.158	0.158	0.138		0.0560		0.0193	0.0278	3.52		0.312	0.343	0.402	0.350	0.350

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Benchmark	[-]	0.136
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.173	0.174	0.138		0.0645		0.0356	0.0540	1.98		0.239	0.438	0.698	0.781	0.519
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.157	0.158	0.139		0.0657		0.0187	0.0453	2.11		0.323	0.474	0.676	0.908	0.571

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:

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

  History:

Mon Sep 19 16:06:36 2022: ncatted -a units,albedo,o,c,1 albedo.nc 2019-06-25: downloaded source from https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/products-info.php?product=EBAF

2019-06-26: converted to netCDF with https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-albedo-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: unitless

  Convention:

CF-1.7