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

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.138
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.157	0.157		0.143	0.0572		0.0140	0.0297	3.11		0.288	0.309	0.486	0.945	0.517	0.476
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.156	0.155		0.143	0.0572		0.0121	0.0287	3.03		0.323	0.307	0.505	0.943	0.546	0.488
WATCH	[-]	0.154	0.153		0.144	0.0574		0.00910	0.0291	3.32		0.312	0.321	0.440	0.931	0.487	0.468

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.181
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.189	0.191		0.182	0.0612		0.00745	0.0324	3.11		0.420	0.271	0.484	0.978	0.690	0.519
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.186	0.187		0.182	0.0612		0.00407	0.0324	2.99		0.433	0.264	0.507	0.973	0.647	0.515
WATCH	[-]	0.182	0.184		0.183	0.0607		0.000290	0.0327	2.99		0.442	0.303	0.502	0.963	0.570	0.514

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.142
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.159	0.159		0.146	0.0640		0.0134	0.0325	2.77		0.387	0.261	0.549	0.911	0.611	0.497
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.157	0.157		0.146	0.0640		0.0106	0.0316	2.50		0.399	0.266	0.602	0.910	0.626	0.511
WATCH	[-]	0.154	0.154		0.144	0.0651		0.00869	0.0304	2.84		0.399	0.288	0.531	0.908	0.543	0.493

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.368
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.336	0.336		0.370	0.336		-0.0349	0.142	1.17		0.705	0.603	0.877	0.931	0.705	0.737
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.323	0.322		0.370	0.336		-0.0485	0.125	1.11		0.724	0.613	0.889	0.979	0.725	0.757
WATCH	[-]	0.343	0.342		0.367	0.367		-0.0259	0.126	0.873		0.755	0.634	0.926	0.987	0.607	0.757

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.0844
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.139	0.138		0.0928	0.0564		0.0454	0.0501	3.09		0.204	0.348	0.478	0.0316	0.396	0.301
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.136	0.136		0.0928	0.0564		0.0432	0.0484	3.07		0.220	0.346	0.478	0.0319	0.416	0.306
WATCH	[-]	0.135	0.135		0.0905	0.0556		0.0447	0.0483	3.01		0.148	0.339	0.493	0.0294	0.447	0.299

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.221
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.190	0.189		0.222	0.157		-0.0335	0.0832	0.941		0.779	0.641	0.908	0.986	0.688	0.774
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.200	0.199		0.222	0.157		-0.0233	0.0930	1.07		0.777	0.610	0.894	0.981	0.687	0.760
WATCH	[-]	0.193	0.192		0.213	0.168		-0.0208	0.0747	0.984		0.804	0.670	0.901	0.990	0.651	0.781

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.201
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.205	0.205		0.204	0.0927		0.000464	0.0700	1.04		0.681	0.457	0.853	0.955	0.652	0.676
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.201	0.202		0.204	0.0927		-0.00305	0.0621	1.09		0.681	0.491	0.843	0.942	0.699	0.691
WATCH	[-]	0.203	0.203		0.199	0.0874		0.00410	0.0661	1.34		0.636	0.446	0.813	0.963	0.554	0.643

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.138
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.159	0.159		0.144	0.0587		0.0146	0.0411	3.28		0.467	0.312	0.447	0.863	0.519	0.487
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.157	0.157		0.144	0.0587		0.0127	0.0399	3.25		0.469	0.316	0.453	0.848	0.523	0.488
WATCH	[-]	0.155	0.155		0.146	0.0585		0.00936	0.0402	3.17		0.435	0.328	0.468	0.887	0.459	0.484

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.367
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.348	0.345		0.366	0.392		-0.0207	0.117	1.26		0.772	0.625	0.867	0.977	0.687	0.759
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.339	0.337		0.366	0.392		-0.0292	0.111	1.40		0.787	0.617	0.849	0.983	0.762	0.769
WATCH	[-]	0.364	0.361		0.356	0.407		0.00576	0.0991	1.08		0.808	0.693	0.894	0.985	0.618	0.782

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.153
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.170	0.170		0.160	0.0616		0.00987	0.0342	2.46		0.442	0.317	0.608	0.779	0.664	0.521
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.167	0.167		0.160	0.0616		0.00755	0.0333	2.40		0.443	0.326	0.618	0.781	0.680	0.529
WATCH	[-]	0.162	0.162		0.147	0.0619		0.0152	0.0318	2.83		0.362	0.282	0.535	0.805	0.640	0.484

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.146
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.168	0.168		0.153	0.0665		0.0150	0.0649	1.36		0.577	0.406	0.808	0.973	0.668	0.640
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.164	0.165		0.153	0.0665		0.0115	0.0634	1.43		0.578	0.405	0.796	0.912	0.667	0.627
WATCH	[-]	0.164	0.165		0.143	0.0627		0.0217	0.0643	1.65		0.525	0.357	0.766	0.968	0.548	0.587

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.147
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.272	0.272		0.262	0.0914		0.00980	0.0619	2.23		0.503	0.396	0.645	0.990	0.598	0.588
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.268	0.268		0.262	0.0914		0.00606	0.0584	2.21		0.510	0.398	0.648	0.993	0.640	0.598
WATCH	[-]	0.270	0.270		0.261	0.0947		0.00918	0.0582	2.29		0.490	0.398	0.637	0.993	0.545	0.577

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.284
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.314	0.314		0.293	0.0694		0.0213	0.0510	3.48		0.310	0.296	0.415	0.979	0.634	0.488
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.313	0.313		0.293	0.0694		0.0202	0.0516	3.39		0.311	0.276	0.423	0.978	0.674	0.490
WATCH	[-]	0.314	0.314		0.294	0.0700		0.0193	0.0505	3.42		0.293	0.290	0.425	0.975	0.543	0.469

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.399
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.380	0.380		0.400	0.375		-0.0199	0.136	1.28		0.751	0.612	0.835	0.926	0.659	0.733
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.363	0.363		0.400	0.375		-0.0369	0.118	1.19		0.773	0.629	0.854	0.989	0.718	0.765
WATCH	[-]	0.383	0.383		0.403	0.391		-0.0197	0.127	1.17		0.756	0.637	0.856	0.975	0.636	0.750

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.113
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.152	0.151		0.125	0.0569		0.0255	0.0437	3.10		0.307	0.290	0.485	0.627	0.610	0.435
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.148	0.148		0.125	0.0569		0.0222	0.0432	3.04		0.295	0.298	0.494	0.616	0.600	0.433
WATCH	[-]	0.149	0.148		0.128	0.0574		0.0197	0.0425	3.07		0.290	0.308	0.486	0.597	0.523	0.419

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.154
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.163	0.163		0.159	0.0605		0.00434	0.0495	2.07		0.588	0.356	0.652	0.946	0.708	0.601
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.159	0.159		0.159	0.0605		0.000121	0.0454	2.03		0.579	0.379	0.659	0.892	0.680	0.594
WATCH	[-]	0.168	0.168		0.159	0.0600		0.00900	0.0552	1.70		0.584	0.339	0.738	0.977	0.505	0.580

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.193
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.176	0.176		0.197	0.0857		-0.0193	0.0858	0.743		0.733	0.590	0.927	0.981	0.611	0.739
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.174	0.175		0.197	0.0857		-0.0213	0.0864	0.732		0.729	0.589	0.933	0.981	0.640	0.743
WATCH	[-]	0.170	0.170		0.188	0.0826		-0.0167	0.0865	0.932		0.719	0.579	0.908	0.969	0.608	0.727

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.192
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.188	0.188		0.194	0.0720		-0.00582	0.0597	1.34		0.652	0.417	0.798	0.995	0.707	0.664
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.177	0.177		0.194	0.0720		-0.0170	0.0587	1.51		0.622	0.428	0.771	0.976	0.708	0.655
WATCH	[-]	0.188	0.188		0.196	0.0734		-0.00861	0.0641	1.38		0.609	0.400	0.797	0.979	0.521	0.618

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.134
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.137	0.137		0.136	0.0519		0.000639	0.0205	2.90		0.534	0.348	0.528	0.243	0.427	0.405
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.135	0.135		0.136	0.0519		-0.00112	0.0207	2.96		0.510	0.350	0.515	0.245	0.417	0.398
WATCH	[-]	0.135	0.135		0.136	0.0524		-0.000551	0.0203	2.99		0.514	0.344	0.514	0.183	0.402	0.383

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.144
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.152	0.151		0.147	0.0557		0.00397	0.0244	3.01		0.493	0.217	0.486	0.699	0.722	0.472
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.149	0.149		0.147	0.0557		0.00174	0.0238	3.18		0.475	0.230	0.458	0.649	0.638	0.446
WATCH	[-]	0.146	0.146		0.145	0.0562		0.000575	0.0227	3.10		0.455	0.255	0.476	0.624	0.539	0.434

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [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]	Interannual Variability Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.141
CRUNCEPv7	[-]	0.161	0.161		0.149	0.0759		0.0125	0.0471	2.21		0.433	0.326	0.653	0.861	0.621	0.537
GSWP3v1	[-]	0.159	0.160		0.149	0.0759		0.0109	0.0468	2.09		0.441	0.334	0.675	0.852	0.635	0.545
WATCH	[-]	0.159	0.160		0.155	0.0796		0.00480	0.0484	2.01		0.436	0.354	0.690	0.807	0.583	0.537

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 max month Temporally integrated mean phase shift Temporally integrated mean phase shift score Interannual variability Interannual variability 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

  creation_date: Wed May 14 11:10:39 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 1 degree CERES EBAF Radiation observations

  title: derived CERES EBAF Radiation

  Approach: To obtain albedo from CERES EBAF radiation data, I divided total surface upward shortwave (sfc_sw_down_all_mon) by total sky surface downward shortwave (sfc_sw_up_all_mon). Meanwhile, the data were also binned from original 1.0x1.0 resolution to final 0.5x0.5 resolution.

  Temporal resolution: monthly

  General information: This product was derived from CERES EBAF radiation dataset.

  Spatial resolution: 0.5x0.5 degree

  Derived data code: http://redwood.ess.uci.edu/mingquan/www/ILAMB/Download/CODES/CODES/subroutines/convert/convert-radiation-ceres.ncl