Africa - South Asia - East Siberia Asia - South Central Asia and China Australia Europe Global - Land Middle East and Sahara North America - Alaska and Northern Canada North America - Eastern United States North America - Southern Canada North America - Western United States South America - Southeast

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]	Period Mean (original grids) africasahel [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	Bias africasahel [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	RMSE africasahel [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]	Phase Shift africasahel [months]		Bias Score [1]	Bias Score africasahel [1]	RMSE Score [1]	RMSE Score africasahel [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score africasahel [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	315.
h0	[-]	303.			-11.7		19.8		0.983			0.676		0.646		0.937		0.726
h0a	[-]	303.			-11.7		19.8		0.983			0.676		0.646		0.937		0.726

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]	Period Mean (original grids) africasahel [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	Bias africasahel [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	RMSE africasahel [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]	Phase Shift africasahel [months]		Bias Score [1]	Bias Score africasahel [1]	RMSE Score [1]	RMSE Score africasahel [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score africasahel [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	319.
h0	[-]	222.			-97.3		89.6		0.00			0.216		0.504		1.00		0.556
h0a	[-]	222.			-97.3		89.6		0.00			0.216		0.504		1.00		0.556

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]	Period Mean (original grids) africasahel [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	Bias africasahel [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	RMSE africasahel [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]	Phase Shift africasahel [months]		Bias Score [1]	Bias Score africasahel [1]	RMSE Score [1]	RMSE Score africasahel [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score africasahel [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	321.
h0	[-]	314.			-9.04		18.6		0.344			0.848		0.770		0.977		0.841
h0a	[-]	314.			-9.04		18.6		0.344			0.848		0.770		0.977		0.841

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]	Period Mean (original grids) africasahel [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	Bias africasahel [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	RMSE africasahel [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]	Phase Shift africasahel [months]		Bias Score [1]	Bias Score africasahel [1]	RMSE Score [1]	RMSE Score africasahel [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score africasahel [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	364.
h0	[-]	354.			-9.90		17.8		0.983			0.686		0.604		0.937		0.708
h0a	[-]	354.			-9.90		17.8		0.983			0.686		0.604		0.937		0.708

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]	Period Mean (original grids) africasahel [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	Bias africasahel [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	RMSE africasahel [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]	Phase Shift africasahel [months]		Bias Score [1]	Bias Score africasahel [1]	RMSE Score [1]	RMSE Score africasahel [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score africasahel [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	319.
h0	[-]	309.			-9.77		20.0		0.388			0.719		0.530		0.974		0.688
h0a	[-]	309.			-9.77		20.0		0.388			0.719		0.530		0.974		0.688

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]	Period Mean (original grids) africasahel [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	Bias africasahel [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	RMSE africasahel [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]	Phase Shift africasahel [months]		Bias Score [1]	Bias Score africasahel [1]	RMSE Score [1]	RMSE Score africasahel [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score africasahel [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	314.
h0	[-]	305.	391.		-6.26		22.0		0.493			0.759		0.613		0.964		0.737
h0a	[-]	305.	391.		-6.26		22.0		0.493			0.759		0.613		0.964		0.737

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]	Period Mean (original grids) africasahel [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	Bias africasahel [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	RMSE africasahel [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]	Phase Shift africasahel [months]		Bias Score [1]	Bias Score africasahel [1]	RMSE Score [1]	RMSE Score africasahel [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score africasahel [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	338.
h0	[-]	336.			1.61		15.4		0.517			0.927		0.607		0.965		0.777
h0a	[-]	336.			1.61		15.4		0.517			0.927		0.607		0.965		0.777

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]	Period Mean (original grids) africasahel [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	Bias africasahel [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	RMSE africasahel [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]	Phase Shift africasahel [months]		Bias Score [1]	Bias Score africasahel [1]	RMSE Score [1]	RMSE Score africasahel [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score africasahel [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	227.
h0	[-]	210.			-16.9		28.1		0.00			0.715		0.656		1.00		0.757
h0a	[-]	210.			-16.9		28.1		0.00			0.715		0.656		1.00		0.757

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]	Period Mean (original grids) africasahel [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	Bias africasahel [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	RMSE africasahel [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]	Phase Shift africasahel [months]		Bias Score [1]	Bias Score africasahel [1]	RMSE Score [1]	RMSE Score africasahel [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score africasahel [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	327.
h0	[-]	329.			2.29		19.6		0.443			0.937		0.656		0.970		0.805
h0a	[-]	329.			2.29		19.6		0.443			0.937		0.656		0.970		0.805

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]	Period Mean (original grids) africasahel [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	Bias africasahel [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	RMSE africasahel [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]	Phase Shift africasahel [months]		Bias Score [1]	Bias Score africasahel [1]	RMSE Score [1]	RMSE Score africasahel [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score africasahel [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	277.
h0	[-]	278.			1.04		16.4		0.00			0.977		0.693		1.00		0.841
h0a	[-]	278.			1.04		16.4		0.00			0.977		0.693		1.00		0.841

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]	Period Mean (original grids) africasahel [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	Bias africasahel [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	RMSE africasahel [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]	Phase Shift africasahel [months]		Bias Score [1]	Bias Score africasahel [1]	RMSE Score [1]	RMSE Score africasahel [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score africasahel [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	290.
h0	[-]	287.			-2.83		15.4		0.258			0.883		0.706		0.983		0.819
h0a	[-]	287.			-2.83		15.4		0.258			0.883		0.706		0.983		0.819

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]	Period Mean (original grids) africasahel [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	Bias africasahel [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	RMSE africasahel [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]	Phase Shift africasahel [months]		Bias Score [1]	Bias Score africasahel [1]	RMSE Score [1]	RMSE Score africasahel [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score africasahel [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	355.
h0	[-]	370.			11.1		31.9		1.34			0.472		0.508		0.874		0.591
h0a	[-]	370.			11.1		31.9		1.34			0.472		0.508		0.874		0.591

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 Temporally integrated period mean max month Temporally integrated mean phase shift Temporally integrated mean phase shift 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:

derived WRMC BSRN

  Source_file:

This product is generated from monthly WRMC.BSRN observations

  Conventions:

Please contact Prof. James Randerson (Email: jranders@uci.edu) or Dr. Mingquan Mu (mmu@uci.edu) for any question

  Altitude:

BSRN

  Site_name:

ASP,BAR,BER,BIL,BON,BOS,BOU,BRB,CAB,CAM,CAR,CLH,CNR,COC,DAA,DAR,DOM,DRA,DWN,E13,EUR,FLO,FPE,FUA,GCR,GVN,ILO,ISH,IZA,KWA,LAU,LER,LIN,MAN,MNM,NAU,NYA,PAL,PAY,PSU,PTR,REG,RLM,SAP,SBO,SMS,SOV,SPO,SXF,SYO,TAM,TAT,TIK,TOR,XIA

  Creation_date:

Sun Jun 22 23:42:20 PDT 2014

  Approach:

First I used BSRN Toolbox to extract lwdn (surface downward longwave radiation) from raw data files, and saved the data in ascii format, then I organized all site data together for each month and year and saved them in a netcdf file.

  Temporal resolution:

monthly

  General information:

This product was derived from WRMC-BSRN radiation dataset.

  Spatial resolution:

site observations

  Derived data code:

http://redwood.ess.uci.edu/mingquan/www/ILAMB/Download/CODES/CODES/subroutines/convert/convert-WRMC.BSRN.ncl