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	[-]	2.66
default	[-]	3.07	2.78	2.66	2.12	0.248		1.16	1.61	2.97		0.255	0.362	0.523	0.831	0.466
handtune0011	[-]	2.12	1.75	2.66	2.19	0.248		-0.360	1.33	2.40		0.318	0.361	0.652	0.942	0.526

	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	[-]	1.13
default	[-]	0.977	1.21	1.14	5.14	1.30		-0.122	0.947	2.13		0.396	0.332	0.670	0.773	0.500
handtune0011	[-]	1.02	1.17	1.13	4.23	1.30		-0.197	0.953	1.87		0.377	0.318	0.718	0.875	0.521

	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	[-]	1.47
default	[-]	1.72	1.88	1.48	0.974	1.13		-0.0632	1.19	2.83		0.272	0.374	0.547	0.525	0.418
handtune0011	[-]	1.39	1.54	1.48	0.854	1.13		-0.313	1.10	2.32		0.284	0.400	0.654	0.642	0.476

	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	[-]	0.897
default	[-]	0.432	0.468	0.900	0.394	0.629		-0.323	0.848	0.748		0.427	0.279	0.929	0.802	0.543
handtune0011	[-]	0.254	0.289	0.897	0.169	0.629		-0.584	0.648	0.708		0.318	0.365	0.932	0.848	0.566

	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	[-]	3.82
default	[-]	6.02	5.95	3.84	6.05	3.33		2.33	2.46	2.54		0.0516	0.445	0.592	0.988	0.504
handtune0011	[-]	3.10	3.02	3.83	3.88	3.32		-0.232	1.13	2.54		0.341	0.441	0.601	0.803	0.526

	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	[-]	1.28
default	[-]	2.33	2.36	1.29	2.57	1.54		0.903	1.55	1.01		0.413	0.488	0.882	0.214	0.497
handtune0011	[-]	1.35	1.36	1.28	1.51	1.54		-0.0103	0.994	0.738		0.653	0.509	0.929	0.490	0.618

	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	[-]	0.905
default	[-]	1.87	2.18	0.906	0.465	1.70		1.18	1.53	1.33		0.377	0.361	0.833	0.331	0.453
handtune0011	[-]	1.27	1.50	0.904	0.322	1.70		0.491	0.900	1.39		0.470	0.383	0.820	0.662	0.543

	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	[-]	1.81
default	[-]	4.57	4.42	1.81	3.63	2.04		1.93	2.30	2.48		0.161	0.323	0.599	0.752	0.431
handtune0011	[-]	2.86	2.72	1.80	2.18	2.04		0.594	1.37	2.67		0.344	0.286	0.565	0.913	0.479

	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	[-]	0.849
default	[-]	0.933	0.931	0.852	1.26	0.470		-0.243	0.707	1.10		0.394	0.337	0.856	0.653	0.516
handtune0011	[-]	0.450	0.434	0.850	0.718	0.467		-0.575	0.526	1.02		0.319	0.466	0.861	0.850	0.592

	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	[-]	0.851
default	[-]	1.32	1.15	0.844	3.66	1.72		0.264	0.658	2.33		0.410	0.355	0.638	0.610	0.474
handtune0011	[-]	1.21	1.06	0.843	3.36	1.73		0.172	0.612	2.28		0.406	0.346	0.651	0.678	0.485

	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	[-]	1.41
default	[-]	2.36	2.48	1.42	2.41	1.11		1.15	1.58	2.26		0.307	0.379	0.664	0.458	0.437
handtune0011	[-]	1.89	2.00	1.41	1.73	1.11		0.579	1.21	2.53		0.416	0.376	0.608	0.576	0.470

	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	[-]	1.49
default	[-]	2.26	2.47	1.49	0.761	2.01		0.865	1.44	2.10		0.289	0.363	0.681	0.661	0.471
handtune0011	[-]	1.54	1.68	1.49	0.534	2.01		0.0992	1.04	2.05		0.369	0.376	0.691	0.877	0.538

	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	[-]	0.369
default	[-]	0.385	0.843	0.370	0.0958	0.363		0.427	0.773	3.02		0.171	0.190	0.507	0.472	0.306
handtune0011	[-]	0.328	0.749	0.369	0.0804	0.362		0.306	0.695	3.27		0.194	0.184	0.462	0.593	0.324

	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	[-]	0.597
default	[-]	0.649	0.717	0.599	0.200	0.492		0.0952	0.716	1.56		0.307	0.351	0.790	0.486	0.457
handtune0011	[-]	0.238	0.267	0.597	0.0618	0.491		-0.312	0.444	1.53		0.354	0.434	0.784	0.891	0.579

	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	[-]	1.98
default	[-]	4.83	4.95	1.99	4.21	2.06		0.734	1.52	3.33		0.273	0.306	0.446	0.745	0.415
handtune0011	[-]	3.52	3.71	1.98	2.64	2.06		0.0302	1.19	3.64		0.363	0.293	0.392	0.940	0.456

	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	[-]	1.79
default	[-]	3.54	3.48	1.80	4.12	1.38		1.66	2.00	1.76		0.261	0.426	0.753	0.767	0.527
handtune0011	[-]	3.10	3.01	1.79	3.59	1.37		1.44	1.84	1.60		0.306	0.423	0.780	0.819	0.550

	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	[-]	1.27
default	[-]	3.24	3.33	1.28	1.88	1.14		1.76	2.06	1.10		0.219	0.451	0.882	0.357	0.472
handtune0011	[-]	1.65	1.72	1.27	1.09	1.14		0.400	0.966	0.993		0.537	0.473	0.898	0.762	0.629

	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	[-]	0.744
default	[-]	1.62	1.65	0.745	6.37	0.738		0.529	0.903	2.46		0.289	0.292	0.604	0.605	0.416
handtune0011	[-]	1.10	1.10	0.744	3.60	0.739		0.186	0.662	2.73		0.361	0.304	0.563	0.913	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	[-]	3.93
default	[-]	5.83	5.88	3.94	4.98	2.63		1.68	2.02	2.67		0.172	0.438	0.575	0.923	0.509
handtune0011	[-]	3.09	3.07	3.93	3.73	2.63		-0.913	1.61	2.73		0.227	0.428	0.563	0.872	0.503

	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	[-]	1.97
default	[-]	3.06	3.11	1.97	2.49	3.20		1.05	1.96	2.78		0.174	0.359	0.550	0.393	0.367
handtune0011	[-]	2.68	2.70	1.97	2.22	3.20		0.585	1.60	2.76		0.209	0.366	0.557	0.503	0.400

	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	[-]	0.781
default	[-]	1.02	1.23	0.766	0.367	2.21		0.967	1.36	2.95		0.169	0.197	0.521	0.495	0.316
handtune0011	[-]	0.813	0.977	0.764	0.300	2.21		0.488	0.983	2.92		0.232	0.204	0.525	0.786	0.390

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	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.534		0.497	0.497
handtune0011	[-]	0.591		0.768	0.768

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.554		0.641	0.641
handtune0011	[-]	0.550		0.637	0.637

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.589		0.463	0.463
handtune0011	[-]	0.580		0.525	0.525

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.547		0.687	0.687
handtune0011	[-]	0.512		0.485	0.485

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.393		0.516	0.516
handtune0011	[-]	0.484		0.883	0.883

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.642		0.300	0.300
handtune0011	[-]	0.559		0.671	0.671

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.661		0.163	0.163
handtune0011	[-]	0.649		0.385	0.385

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.558		0.300	0.300
handtune0011	[-]	0.509		0.577	0.577

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.518		0.525	0.525
handtune0011	[-]	0.495		0.488	0.488

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.725		0.426	0.426
handtune0011	[-]	0.700		0.544	0.544

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.648		0.312	0.312
handtune0011	[-]	0.651		0.565	0.565

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.610		0.477	0.477
handtune0011	[-]	0.638		0.777	0.777

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.647		0.172	0.172
handtune0011	[-]	0.637		0.273	0.273

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.677		0.453	0.453
handtune0011	[-]	0.675		0.574	0.574

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.582		0.498	0.498
handtune0011	[-]	0.600		0.721	0.721

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.761		0.325	0.325
handtune0011	[-]	0.688		0.402	0.402

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.759		0.200	0.200
handtune0011	[-]	0.619		0.560	0.560

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.610		0.320	0.320
handtune0011	[-]	0.589		0.628	0.628

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.486		0.544	0.544
handtune0011	[-]	0.444		0.735	0.735

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.557		0.387	0.387
handtune0011	[-]	0.571		0.478	0.478

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
default	[-]	0.611		0.0520	0.0520
handtune0011	[-]	0.589		0.184	0.184

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 Relationship with Precipitation Relationship with func_Precipitation

  Title:

derived AVHRR BU leaf area index in 0.5x0.5

  Source_file:

This product is generated from monthly 1/12 degree AVHRR BU leaf area index observations

  Conventions:

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

  Creation_date:

Tue Mar 25 17:04:13 PDT 2014

  Approach:

I read this variable from original abl files using matlab and simply averaged 15-day (half monthly) data to get monthly data. I also interpolated data from 1/12 (0.0833) degree into 0.5 degree and saved the data in NetCDF format.

  Temporal resolution:

monthly

  General information:

This product was derived from half monthly AVHRR BU leaf area index from Boston University.

  Spatial resolution:

0.5x0.5 degree

  Derived data code:

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