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) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	32.8
CESM3_092H	[-]	59.5	60.0	32.8	0.494	2.31e-06		7.03		0.409	0.661	0.535
CESM3_098bH	[-]	61.8	62.4	32.8	0.505	2.31e-06		7.63		0.391	0.641	0.516
CMIP6_001	[-]	48.0	48.6	32.8	0.257	0.0526		4.17		0.476	0.822	0.649
LE2_001	[-]	48.0	48.5	32.8	0.258	0.0526		4.15		0.476	0.821	0.649

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	8.35
CESM3_092H	[-]	5.31	4.47	8.35	0.192	0.00323		-0.663		0.440	0.847	0.644
CESM3_098bH	[-]	6.01	5.03	8.35	0.208	0.00323		-0.566		0.446	0.857	0.651
CMIP6_001	[-]	4.45	3.76	8.34	0.139	0.0114		-0.786		0.414	0.818	0.616
LE2_001	[-]	4.49	3.79	8.34	0.148	0.0114		-0.780		0.414	0.816	0.615

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	10.6
CESM3_092H	[-]	14.5	13.7	10.6	0.394	0.00201		0.470		0.387	0.534	0.461
CESM3_098bH	[-]	14.7	13.9	10.6	0.387	0.00201		0.493		0.384	0.509	0.446
CMIP6_001	[-]	20.9	20.1	10.6	0.397	0.0246		1.20		0.329	0.400	0.365
LE2_001	[-]	20.1	19.3	10.6	0.377	0.0246		1.11		0.334	0.416	0.375

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	4.69
CESM3_092H	[-]	11.8	11.7	4.69	0.264			2.56		0.190	0.792	0.491
CESM3_098bH	[-]	12.3	12.2	4.69	0.273			2.71		0.178	0.792	0.485
CMIP6_001	[-]	4.18	4.21	4.67	0.0241	0.0241		-0.0653		0.444	0.873	0.658
LE2_001	[-]	4.12	4.15	4.67	0.0237	0.0241		-0.0860		0.443	0.870	0.657

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	27.8
CESM3_092H	[-]	57.2	53.9	27.7	3.01	0.0497		14.0		0.211	0.798	0.505
CESM3_098bH	[-]	57.1	53.8	27.7	3.00	0.0497		14.0		0.214	0.787	0.500
CMIP6_001	[-]	45.8	43.9	26.8	1.68	0.921		9.85		0.320	0.915	0.618
LE2_001	[-]	45.2	43.3	26.8	1.65	0.921		9.64		0.328	0.910	0.619

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	43.5
CESM3_092H	[-]	89.9	88.0	43.5	0.432	3.68e-05		5.30		0.359	0.741	0.550
CESM3_098bH	[-]	91.1	89.3	43.5	0.431	3.68e-05		5.44		0.351	0.734	0.543
CMIP6_001	[-]	55.6	54.5	43.5	0.264	0.0288		1.36		0.562	0.907	0.734
LE2_001	[-]	55.9	54.7	43.5	0.269	0.0288		1.40		0.557	0.906	0.732

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	32.0
CESM3_092H	[-]	47.8	47.8	32.0	0.925	0.00351		1.33		0.306	0.768	0.537
CESM3_098bH	[-]	47.4	47.4	32.0	0.948	0.00351		1.30		0.306	0.771	0.539
CMIP6_001	[-]	34.3	34.4	31.9	0.748	0.0700		0.422		0.359	0.878	0.618
LE2_001	[-]	34.2	34.3	31.9	0.756	0.0700		0.417		0.360	0.875	0.618

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	21.1
CESM3_092H	[-]	27.7	26.3	21.1	0.769	0.00771		1.85		0.398	0.798	0.598
CESM3_098bH	[-]	28.1	26.6	21.1	0.778	0.00771		1.90		0.392	0.800	0.596
CMIP6_001	[-]	24.7	23.3	20.9	0.612	0.146		1.31		0.412	0.799	0.605
LE2_001	[-]	24.5	23.1	20.9	0.603	0.146		1.27		0.412	0.803	0.608

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	3.81
CESM3_092H	[-]	13.0	13.3	3.81	0.147	1.59e-06		2.91		0.111	0.658	0.385
CESM3_098bH	[-]	13.2	13.5	3.81	0.156	1.59e-06		2.97		0.108	0.658	0.383
CMIP6_001	[-]	2.61	2.75	3.81	0.0229	0.000319		-0.293		0.421	0.832	0.627
LE2_001	[-]	2.79	2.95	3.81	0.0260	0.000319		-0.233		0.421	0.843	0.632

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	9.16
CESM3_092H	[-]	12.7	11.6	9.14	0.961	0.0267		0.944		0.151	0.848	0.499
CESM3_098bH	[-]	11.8	10.7	9.14	0.909	0.0267		0.823		0.161	0.854	0.507
CMIP6_001	[-]	11.7	10.8	8.87	0.729	0.289		0.791		0.159	0.847	0.503
LE2_001	[-]	11.5	10.7	8.87	0.716	0.289		0.768		0.162	0.846	0.504

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	12.0
CESM3_092H	[-]	16.6	15.6	12.0	0.559	0.00608		1.33		0.444	0.526	0.485
CESM3_098bH	[-]	16.7	15.8	12.0	0.577	0.00608		1.38		0.440	0.525	0.483
CMIP6_001	[-]	14.6	14.0	12.0	0.335	0.0529		0.982		0.449	0.459	0.454
LE2_001	[-]	14.7	14.1	12.0	0.336	0.0529		1.00		0.449	0.446	0.447

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	364.
CESM3_092H	[-]	634.	621.	364.	11.5	0.125		2.74		0.320	0.677	0.498
CESM3_098bH	[-]	633.	620.	364.	11.5	0.125		2.73		0.319	0.675	0.497
CMIP6_001	[-]	485.	476.	362.	7.03	2.19		1.40		0.386	0.787	0.587
LE2_001	[-]	484.	475.	362.	7.00	2.19		1.38		0.386	0.788	0.587

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.24
CESM3_092H	[-]	1.91	1.56	1.24	0.375	0.000602		0.111		0.211	0.652	0.431
CESM3_098bH	[-]	1.99	1.60	1.24	0.411	0.000602		0.122		0.205	0.641	0.423
CMIP6_001	[-]	1.17	0.897	1.23	0.289	0.00652		-0.0478		0.229	0.365	0.297
LE2_001	[-]	1.24	0.952	1.23	0.303	0.00652		-0.0346		0.226	0.388	0.307

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	5.62
CESM3_092H	[-]	20.3	19.7	5.62	0.352	1.31e-05		2.67		0.142	0.360	0.251
CESM3_098bH	[-]	21.0	20.4	5.62	0.390	1.31e-05		2.80		0.130	0.361	0.245
CMIP6_001	[-]	10.0	10.2	5.59	0.0616	0.0265		0.868		0.316	0.440	0.378
LE2_001	[-]	10.4	10.6	5.59	0.0684	0.0265		0.939		0.311	0.427	0.369

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	8.21
CESM3_092H	[-]	11.9	10.9	8.19	0.616	0.0230		2.23		0.373	0.690	0.531
CESM3_098bH	[-]	11.1	10.1	8.19	0.569	0.0230		1.91		0.379	0.730	0.555
CMIP6_001	[-]	9.84	9.22	8.09	0.390	0.122		1.43		0.420	0.686	0.553
LE2_001	[-]	9.97	9.34	8.09	0.391	0.122		1.48		0.419	0.683	0.551

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	14.8
CESM3_092H	[-]	13.3	13.0	14.8	0.273	2.51e-05		-0.0657		0.518	0.763	0.641
CESM3_098bH	[-]	13.4	13.0	14.8	0.274	2.51e-05		-0.0607		0.521	0.765	0.643
CMIP6_001	[-]	9.53	9.30	14.8	0.156	0.0147		-1.03		0.538	0.837	0.688
LE2_001	[-]	9.33	9.09	14.8	0.156	0.0147		-1.08		0.534	0.837	0.686

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	20.1
CESM3_092H	[-]	51.9	51.5	20.1	0.499			6.53		0.238	0.721	0.480
CESM3_098bH	[-]	52.1	51.7	20.1	0.505			6.57		0.235	0.720	0.478
CMIP6_001	[-]	35.2	34.7	19.8	0.213	0.219		3.19		0.397	0.737	0.567
LE2_001	[-]	35.6	35.2	19.8	0.216	0.219		3.28		0.389	0.739	0.564

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	8.04
CESM3_092H	[-]	8.76	8.71	8.04	0.146	1.99e-06		0.400		0.329	0.835	0.582
CESM3_098bH	[-]	9.01	8.96	8.04	0.146	1.99e-06		0.461		0.323	0.836	0.580
CMIP6_001	[-]	1.65	1.64	7.99	0.0313	0.0515		-1.46		0.376	0.253	0.314
LE2_001	[-]	1.68	1.67	7.99	0.0317	0.0515		-1.45		0.374	0.255	0.315

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	88.9
CESM3_092H	[-]	141.	140.	88.9	0.492	0.00100		6.26		0.475	0.745	0.610
CESM3_098bH	[-]	136.	135.	88.9	0.452	0.00100		5.68		0.487	0.728	0.607
CMIP6_001	[-]	130.	129.	88.8	0.290	0.0655		5.10		0.513	0.890	0.702
LE2_001	[-]	129.	129.	88.8	0.286	0.0655		5.04		0.515	0.891	0.703

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	9.09
CESM3_092H	[-]	17.2	17.3	9.09	0.288	0.000333		1.40		0.391	0.389	0.390
CESM3_098bH	[-]	16.0	16.2	9.09	0.262	0.000333		1.21		0.402	0.383	0.392
CMIP6_001	[-]	13.6	13.8	9.08	0.211	0.0128		0.901		0.427	0.453	0.440
LE2_001	[-]	13.2	13.3	9.08	0.199	0.0128		0.829		0.425	0.452	0.438

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	2.45
CESM3_092H	[-]	11.9	11.6	2.45	0.232	0.000743		3.50		0.0765	0.293	0.185
CESM3_098bH	[-]	11.8	11.5	2.45	0.236	0.000743		3.47		0.0767	0.301	0.189
CMIP6_001	[-]	7.17	7.07	2.40	0.136	0.0496		1.98		0.142	0.382	0.262
LE2_001	[-]	7.12	7.01	2.40	0.136	0.0496		1.96		0.145	0.384	0.264

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 bias Temporally integrated period mean bias score

  Title:

Global forest live biomass carbon version 5.1

  Version:

5.1

  Institutions:

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

  Source:

A combination of data in situ inventory plots and satellite light detection and ranging (Lidar) samples

  History:

2017-10-31: downloaded source from https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Saatchi

2019-03-14: convert original tif files to netcdf data using gdal_translate

2019-11-06: converted to ILAMB required netCDF with https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-biomass-GlobalCarbon.py

  References:

Saatchi, S.S., N.L. Harris, S. Brown, M. Lefsky, E.T. Mitchard, W. Salas, B.R. Zutta, W. Buermann, S.L. Lewis, S. Hagen, S. Petrova, L. White, M. Silman, and A. Morel (2011), Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(24), 9899-9904, doi:10.1073/pnas.1019576108

  Comments:

time_period: climatology

original_temporal_resolution: climatology

original_spatial_resolution: 0.25 degree

original_units: kg/m2 biomass

final_temporal_resolution: climatology

final_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree

final_units: kg/m2 carbon

  Convention:

CF-1.7