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	[-]	449.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	448.	448.	449.		465.		0.680	8.29	1.06		0.683	0.758	0.879	0.990	0.814
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	454.	454.	449.		463.		7.06	10.6	1.04		0.421	0.786	0.878	0.994	0.773

	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	[-]	466.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	462.	462.	466.		451.		-4.38	14.3	0.497		0.430	0.604	0.956	0.947	0.708
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	467.	467.	466.		452.		0.749	10.7	0.465		0.605	0.644	0.959	0.984	0.767

	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	[-]	439.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	440.	440.	439.		440.		1.80	13.7	1.06		0.479	0.543	0.869	0.984	0.683
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	443.	442.	439.		438.		4.93	11.2	0.736		0.550	0.647	0.916	1.00	0.752

	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	[-]	284.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	275.	275.	285.		300.		-7.81	15.3	0.193		0.380	0.419	0.984	0.993	0.639
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	278.	278.	284.		298.		-3.35	14.3	0.215		0.564	0.394	0.983	0.996	0.666

	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	[-]	455.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	448.	448.	454.		469.		-1.56	9.99	1.17		0.476	0.878	0.829	0.817	0.776
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	454.	454.	453.		468.		5.49	11.6	1.71		0.301	0.866	0.752	0.905	0.738

	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	[-]	312.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	316.	315.	312.		346.		3.83	12.5	0.0426		0.525	0.524	0.997	0.954	0.705
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	322.	322.	312.		347.		10.4	17.2	0.0814		0.206	0.438	0.995	0.989	0.613

	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	[-]	365.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	364.	363.	365.		428.		1.31	16.7	0.204		0.341	0.524	0.984	0.970	0.668
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	372.	371.	364.		420.		8.91	17.4	0.236		0.301	0.523	0.983	0.998	0.665

	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	[-]	446.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	447.	447.	445.		465.		4.52	16.6	0.613		0.407	0.384	0.948	0.988	0.622
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	449.	450.	446.		464.		7.46	14.2	0.478		0.406	0.544	0.959	0.999	0.690

	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	[-]	282.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	277.	277.	284.		312.		-5.65	13.7	0.0991		0.536	0.399	0.993	0.976	0.660
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	281.	282.	282.		290.		0.405	14.1	0.132		0.585	0.347	0.990	0.971	0.648

	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	[-]	439.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	440.	440.	441.		434.		-3.64	11.7	0.375		0.608	0.678	0.968	0.998	0.786
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	444.	444.	440.		425.		1.23	10.9	0.510		0.697	0.635	0.960	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	[-]	366.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	372.	372.	365.		392.		10.6	18.0	0.580		0.241	0.512	0.961	0.969	0.639
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	370.	371.	365.		398.		8.50	15.2	0.586		0.264	0.617	0.961	0.995	0.691

	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	[-]	375.	375.	376.		437.		0.557	14.4	0.549		0.438	0.556	0.944	0.998	0.698
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	379.	379.	376.		433.		5.64	13.9	0.532		0.418	0.587	0.947	0.998	0.707

	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	[-]	451.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	448.	448.	452.		445.		-3.19	13.8	0.469		0.554	0.696	0.964	0.996	0.781
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	456.	455.	451.		442.		5.10	12.3	0.421		0.661	0.715	0.966	0.998	0.811

	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	[-]	288.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	280.	280.	287.		302.		-8.48	19.8	0.295		0.414	0.197	0.978	0.952	0.548
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	287.	287.	287.		309.		-0.815	15.7	0.334		0.484	0.342	0.976	0.951	0.619

	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	[-]	442.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	437.	437.	441.		459.		3.16	15.2	1.21		0.404	0.571	0.840	0.991	0.675
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	439.	439.	441.		455.		5.33	13.0	0.961		0.435	0.667	0.879	0.998	0.729

	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	[-]	384.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	397.	397.	383.		436.		16.9	21.7	0.641		0.0583	0.505	0.957	1.00	0.605
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	397.	397.	383.		443.		16.8	23.5	0.579		0.0673	0.324	0.961	1.00	0.535

	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	[-]	324.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	328.	328.	323.		353.		6.91	16.2	0.265		0.397	0.337	0.982	0.992	0.609
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	334.	334.	323.		358.		11.9	19.0	0.235		0.159	0.361	0.984	0.997	0.572

	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	[-]	376.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	379.	380.	376.		380.		4.56	14.2	0.186		0.451	0.533	0.987	0.996	0.700
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	387.	388.	376.		388.		11.5	16.9	0.316		0.280	0.574	0.979	0.990	0.679

	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	[-]	446.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	450.	450.	444.		463.		7.34	12.1	1.36		0.363	0.704	0.809	0.929	0.702
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	454.	454.	445.		464.		8.88	11.3	1.36		0.309	0.786	0.814	0.999	0.739

	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	[-]	435.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	441.	441.	434.		434.		6.61	11.8	0.831		0.410	0.608	0.893	0.993	0.702
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	445.	445.	435.		432.		10.1	12.0	0.652		0.300	0.697	0.928	0.991	0.723

	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	[-]	382.
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	378.	377.	382.		399.		0.281	15.4	0.756		0.417	0.636	0.926	0.989	0.721
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	387.	387.	381.		390.		8.79	15.2	0.559		0.331	0.693	0.941	0.997	0.731

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-rlus-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