Africa - Sahel Africa - South Asia - East Siberia Asia - South Central Asia and China Australia Europe Globe 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]		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	[-]	395.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	423.		27.9	27.7	4.08		0.168	0.445	0.244	0.851	0.430
GSWP3v1	[-]	398.		2.56	12.2	4.08		0.849	0.455	0.244	0.707	0.542
WATCH	[-]	409.		14.1	24.5	3.07		0.406	0.306	0.494	0.417	0.386

	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	[-]	315.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	320.		5.16	7.65	0.00		0.841	0.832	1.00	0.974	0.896
GSWP3v1	[-]	311.		-3.75	9.93	0.983		0.882	0.765	0.937	0.953	0.860
WATCH	[-]	313.		5.81	6.05	2.02		0.798	0.665	0.752	0.811	0.738

	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	[-]	319.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	195.		-125.	107.	0.00		0.141	0.450	1.00	0.864	0.581
GSWP3v1	[-]	229.		-90.2	83.7	0.00		0.242	0.509	1.00	0.875	0.627
WATCH	[-]	210.		nan	nan	nan		0.00	nan	nan	0.00	nan

	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	[-]	321.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	311.		-14.2	19.1	0.344		0.577	0.841	0.977	0.710	0.789
GSWP3v1	[-]	323.		-1.11	11.0	0.344		0.735	0.820	0.977	0.665	0.803
WATCH	[-]	316.		nan	nan	nan		0.00	nan	nan	0.00	nan

	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	[-]	364.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	362.		-2.39	19.0	0.737		0.535	0.696	0.953	0.931	0.762
GSWP3v1	[-]	359.		-4.98	9.46	0.517		0.838	0.748	0.965	0.936	0.847
WATCH	[-]	360.		-2.95	16.1	0.492		0.295	0.705	0.968	0.826	0.700

	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	[-]	317.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	299.		-17.8	23.7	0.517		0.545	0.590	0.965	0.746	0.687
GSWP3v1	[-]	312.		-5.17	15.3	0.517		0.831	0.640	0.965	0.817	0.779
WATCH	[-]	315.		0.497	16.9	0.258		0.412	0.715	0.983	0.887	0.742

	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	[-]	324.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	300.		-10.2	23.3	0.457		0.520	0.657	0.958	0.806	0.720
GSWP3v1	[-]	308.		-2.08	16.4	0.537		0.704	0.699	0.952	0.855	0.782
WATCH	[-]	304.		-5.30	17.4	0.595		0.378	0.697	0.943	0.628	0.669

	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	[-]	338.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	346.		13.3	18.6	0.00		0.437	0.696	1.00	0.835	0.733
GSWP3v1	[-]	343.		5.55	11.2	0.00		0.556	0.714	1.00	0.605	0.718
WATCH	[-]	334.		-3.56	9.91	0.00		0.301	0.784	1.00	0.458	0.665

	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	[-]	228.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	193.		-34.5	35.2	0.517		0.500	0.792	0.965	0.920	0.794
GSWP3v1	[-]	222.		-5.34	17.5	0.517		0.900	0.733	0.965	0.890	0.844
WATCH	[-]	213.		-9.30	10.0	1.03		0.418	0.864	0.930	0.497	0.715

	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	[-]	327.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	320.		-6.56	18.8	0.148		0.844	0.695	0.990	0.748	0.794
GSWP3v1	[-]	328.		1.16	9.73	0.443		0.951	0.814	0.970	0.940	0.898
WATCH	[-]	319.		-5.95	11.8	0.344		0.753	0.800	0.977	0.780	0.822

	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	[-]	278.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	265.		-13.1	19.4	0.00		0.748	0.728	1.00	0.794	0.800
GSWP3v1	[-]	283.		4.92	9.71	0.00		0.896	0.833	1.00	0.996	0.911
WATCH	[-]	275.		-4.05	8.26	0.00		0.914	0.845	1.00	0.925	0.906

	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	[-]	290.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	285.		-5.30	15.4	0.258		0.739	0.812	0.983	0.922	0.853
GSWP3v1	[-]	289.		-1.68	10.9	0.258		0.858	0.807	0.983	0.946	0.880
WATCH	[-]	276.		-15.0	20.3	0.517		0.642	0.847	0.965	0.951	0.850

	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	[-]	353.
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	379.		18.7	31.6	0.656		0.307	0.589	0.958	0.858	0.660
GSWP3v1	[-]	375.		15.6	27.4	0.994		0.353	0.627	0.935	0.981	0.705
WATCH	[-]	376.		-18.9	19.6	0.983		0.114	0.806	0.937	0.951	0.723

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 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 Interannual variability Interannual variability score Spatially integrated regional mean cycle Spatially integrated regional mean detrended cycle Spatially integrated regional mean

  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

  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 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