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	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	38.7
CLM5PHSOFF	[-]	47.1	46.4	0.867	38.7	0.0457		1.70		0.67	0.85	0.76
CLM5PHSON	[-]	38.5	38.7	0.202	38.7	0.0457		0.293		0.77	0.95	0.86

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	11.9
CLM5PHSOFF	[-]	2.31	1.97	0.0401	11.9	0.0196		-1.49		0.42	0.51	0.47
CLM5PHSON	[-]	3.25	2.85	0.0430	11.9	0.0196		-1.35		0.45	0.59	0.52

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	24.6
CLM5PHSOFF	[-]	10.4	8.53	1.41	24.5	0.0612		-1.72		0.44	0.72	0.58
CLM5PHSON	[-]	12.3	11.7	0.367	24.5	0.0612		-1.21		0.51	0.80	0.65

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	36.8
CLM5PHSOFF	[-]	78.2	66.6	9.40	35.7	1.10		8.86		0.61	0.92	0.76
CLM5PHSON	[-]	39.9	37.9	1.80	35.7	1.10		5.14		0.72	0.92	0.82

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	38.4
CLM5PHSOFF	[-]	27.7	22.1	5.53	38.3	0.0891		-2.14		0.55	0.81	0.68
CLM5PHSON	[-]	31.6	23.2	9.15	38.3	0.0891		-1.53		0.59	0.80	0.69

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	43.7
CLM5PHSOFF	[-]	32.8	27.7	3.21	43.4	0.257		-2.24		0.56	0.82	0.69
CLM5PHSON	[-]	24.8	23.2	0.670	43.4	0.257		-1.98		0.61	0.89	0.75

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	13.7
CLM5PHSOFF	[-]	18.2	3.44	14.2	13.5	0.139		-1.61		0.41	0.60	0.50
CLM5PHSON	[-]	11.0	3.66	7.16	13.5	0.139		-1.38		0.44	0.64	0.54

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	352.
CLM5PHSOFF	[-]	542.	370.	172.	348.	3.81		0.288		0.56	0.74	0.65
CLM5PHSON	[-]	486.	309.	178.	348.	3.81		0.0653		0.64	0.85	0.75

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	2.53
CLM5PHSOFF	[-]	0.976	0.0715	0.806	2.53	0.00250		-1.11		0.38	0.0030	0.19
CLM5PHSON	[-]	1.55	0.211	1.35	2.53	0.00250		-1.04		0.39	0.021	0.21

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	11.1
CLM5PHSOFF	[-]	16.3	13.5	1.99	10.9	0.149		0.792		0.54	0.67	0.60
CLM5PHSON	[-]	10.2	9.38	0.547	10.9	0.149		0.813		0.61	0.77	0.69

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.55
CLM5PHSOFF	[-]	7.10	1.11	5.64	1.52	0.0247		-0.473		0.50	0.72	0.61
CLM5PHSON	[-]	11.9	1.32	10.5	1.52	0.0247		0.434		0.55	0.68	0.62

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Benchmark	[-]	0.219
CLM5PHSOFF	[-]	1.45	0.0491	1.50	0.219	0.00		-0.542		0.42	0.020	0.22
CLM5PHSON	[-]	3.04	0.0844	2.99	0.219	0.00		-0.433		0.47	0.082	0.27

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Benchmark	[-]	100.
CLM5PHSOFF	[-]	149.	147.	1.94	100.	0.0690		5.46		0.59	0.72	0.65
CLM5PHSON	[-]	128.	128.	0.396	100.	0.0690		3.63		0.71	0.92	0.81

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Benchmark	[-]	18.4
CLM5PHSOFF	[-]	20.6	19.4	1.25	18.4	0.0281		0.100		0.50	0.52	0.51
CLM5PHSON	[-]	21.8	21.8	0.347	18.4	0.0281		0.735		0.55	0.58	0.56

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Benchmark	[-]	7.28
CLM5PHSOFF	[-]	8.11	7.83	0.482	7.15	0.128		0.290		0.48	0.50	0.49
CLM5PHSON	[-]	6.25	6.14	0.145	7.15	0.128		0.387		0.52	0.57	0.55

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 Globe 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 Tropical Forest Biomass

  institution: NASA-JPL (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, USA)

  institute_id: NASA-JPL

  source: 4079 in situ inventory plots, satellite light detection and ranging (LiDAR) samples of forest structure, and optical and microwave imagery (1-km resolution) to extrapolate estimates

  history: 2015-01-08-T06:37:41Z Converted from 1 km x 1 km to 0.5 degree x 0.5 degree by Mingquan Mu (mmu@uci.edu) on Fri Jan 9 10:37:41 PST 2015

  creation_date: 2015-01-08-T06:37:41Z

  Conventions: CF-1.6

  product: observations

  data_structure: grid

  realm: land

  contact: Prof. James T. Randerson (jranders@uci.edu) or Dr. Mingquan Mu (mmu@uci.edu)

  references: Saatchi, S. S., N. L. Harris, S. Brown, M. Lefsky, E. T. A. 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, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 108(24):9899-9904, doi:10.1073/pnas.1019576108.