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	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	199.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	219.		19.9	27.9	1.02		0.48	0.50	0.93	0.63	0.61
GSWP3v1	[-]	222.		22.8	32.8	0.00		0.44	0.43	1.0	0.98	0.66
WATCH	[-]	166.		-35.0	46.6	0.983		0.29	0.33	0.94	0.58	0.49

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	242.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	246.		4.05	17.4	0.00		0.94	0.79	1.0	0.98	0.90
GSWP3v1	[-]	241.		-0.707	16.5	0.00		0.99	0.79	1.0	0.98	0.91
WATCH	[-]	245.		0.284	17.4	0.00		1.0	0.79	1.0	0.99	0.91

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	105.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	105.		-0.102	33.5	1.02		1.0	0.67	0.93	0.83	0.82
GSWP3v1	[-]	90.5		-14.7	16.2	1.02		0.84	0.75	0.93	0.96	0.85
WATCH	[-]	86.1		0.00	0.00	0.00		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	153.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	181.		28.2	30.3	1.36		0.44	0.80	0.81	0.68	0.70
GSWP3v1	[-]	163.		11.8	20.7	1.02		0.60	0.74	0.83	0.71	0.73
WATCH	[-]	163.		0.00	0.00	0.00		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	222.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	223.		0.815	24.0	0.258		0.84	0.63	0.98	0.88	0.79
GSWP3v1	[-]	222.		-0.488	27.4	0.258		0.78	0.62	0.98	0.83	0.77
WATCH	[-]	211.		-16.9	23.8	0.517		0.41	0.79	0.97	0.94	0.78

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	135.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	161.		25.8	29.4	0.254		0.73	0.84	0.98	0.95	0.87
GSWP3v1	[-]	137.		2.14	19.4	0.127		0.91	0.81	0.99	0.93	0.89
WATCH	[-]	118.		-9.05	26.7	0.407		0.50	0.79	0.97	0.57	0.72

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	181.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	181.		7.16	31.1	0.559		0.69	0.69	0.94	0.76	0.75
GSWP3v1	[-]	169.		-4.26	27.9	0.510		0.74	0.68	0.93	0.77	0.76
WATCH	[-]	162.		-8.42	30.6	0.529		0.40	0.71	0.96	0.49	0.65

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	249.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	251.		3.74	15.2	0.00		0.61	0.82	1.0	0.60	0.77
GSWP3v1	[-]	241.		-14.5	18.1	0.00		0.53	0.84	1.0	0.65	0.77
WATCH	[-]	217.		-27.9	30.8	0.00		0.20	0.81	1.0	0.31	0.62

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	151.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	98.9		-52.4	20.2	0.508		0.51	0.45	0.97	0.54	0.58
GSWP3v1	[-]	93.9		-57.4	27.3	0.508		0.48	0.42	0.97	0.50	0.56
WATCH	[-]	91.6		-108.	29.7	1.02		0.016	0.019	0.93	0.063	0.21

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	187.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	187.		0.608	30.3	0.290		0.82	0.75	0.98	0.89	0.84
GSWP3v1	[-]	174.		-13.3	28.4	0.00		0.87	0.75	1.0	0.86	0.85
WATCH	[-]	182.		-3.83	25.1	0.678		0.74	0.76	0.94	0.76	0.79

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	162.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	162.		0.0453	18.2	0.00		1.0	0.80	1.0	0.96	0.91
GSWP3v1	[-]	147.		-14.6	20.2	0.00		0.83	0.83	1.0	0.97	0.89
WATCH	[-]	154.		-9.07	15.3	1.02		0.89	0.84	0.93	0.99	0.90

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	193.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	188.		-5.01	19.0	0.00		0.90	0.81	1.0	0.95	0.90
GSWP3v1	[-]	190.		-3.52	14.9	0.00		0.94	0.83	1.0	0.96	0.91
WATCH	[-]	199.		6.76	15.0	0.00		0.89	0.85	1.0	0.97	0.91

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	195.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	209.		13.4	31.2	2.05		0.38	0.22	0.75	0.89	0.49
GSWP3v1	[-]	201.		5.34	25.7	3.07		0.68	0.15	0.49	0.91	0.48
WATCH	[-]	189.		0.00	0.00	0.00		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	208.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	212.		3.23	23.6	1.53		0.84	0.60	0.79	0.80	0.73
GSWP3v1	[-]	206.		-1.94	22.3	2.03		0.86	0.60	0.64	0.81	0.70
WATCH	[-]	188.		-2.72	18.8	0.00		0.24	0.68	1.0	0.48	0.62

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  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 23:48:40 PDT 2014

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

  source_file: This product is generated from monthly WRMC.BSRN observations

  title: derived WRMC BSRN

  Approach: First I used BSRN Toolbox to extract swdn (surface downward shortwave 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