Africa - Central Africa - Sahel Africa - South Asia - Indonesia Asia - South Central Asia and China Asia - Southeast Asia and India Australia Global - Land Middle East and Sahara North America - Central America North America - Eastern United States North America - Western United States South America - Amazon South America - Southeast South America - Southwest

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	38.7
CLM50	[-]	45.6	46.0	38.7	0.237	0.0457		1.98		0.585	0.889	0.737
CTSM51	[-]	47.9	48.3	38.7	0.256	0.0457		2.53		0.575	0.869	0.722
DeadVeg	[-]	70.3	71.7	38.7	0.250	0.0457		7.76		0.437	0.603	0.520

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	11.9
CLM50	[-]	4.52	3.98	11.9	0.0493	0.0196		-1.17		0.457	0.758	0.607
CTSM51	[-]	5.05	4.43	11.9	0.0447	0.0196		-1.10		0.470	0.801	0.636
DeadVeg	[-]	9.49	8.29	11.9	0.0385	0.0196		-0.527		0.502	0.668	0.585

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	24.6
CLM50	[-]	15.2	14.5	24.5	0.428	0.0612		-0.880		0.491	0.744	0.618
CTSM51	[-]	15.1	14.4	24.5	0.441	0.0612		-0.897		0.475	0.712	0.593
DeadVeg	[-]	28.2	27.1	24.5	0.448	0.0612		0.482		0.453	0.445	0.449

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	36.8
CLM50	[-]	47.2	44.9	35.7	2.11	1.10		7.95		0.471	0.932	0.702
CTSM51	[-]	52.3	49.7	35.7	2.34	1.10		9.86		0.427	0.905	0.666
DeadVeg	[-]	68.5	65.2	35.7	2.95	1.10		15.8		0.295	0.794	0.544

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	38.4
CLM50	[-]	40.9	30.8	38.3	10.9	0.0891		-0.414		0.505	0.646	0.575
CTSM51	[-]	45.9	34.1	38.3	12.7	0.0891		0.0339		0.511	0.622	0.566
DeadVeg	[-]	51.4	33.7	38.3	18.7	0.0891		-0.0933		0.521	0.643	0.582

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	43.7
CLM50	[-]	30.7	28.8	43.4	0.791	0.257		-1.05		0.511	0.861	0.686
CTSM51	[-]	31.2	29.3	43.4	0.822	0.257		-0.919		0.515	0.853	0.684
DeadVeg	[-]	39.2	37.6	43.4	0.821	0.257		0.265		0.538	0.817	0.677

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	13.7
CLM50	[-]	13.0	4.86	13.5	7.99	0.139		-1.14		0.452	0.594	0.523
CTSM51	[-]	12.7	4.85	13.5	7.64	0.139		-1.16		0.456	0.610	0.533
DeadVeg	[-]	14.5	6.23	13.5	8.04	0.139		-0.934		0.460	0.517	0.489

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	349.
CLM50	[-]	562.	374.	347.	186.	2.11		1.08		0.501	0.765	0.633
CTSM51	[-]	611.	396.	347.	212.	2.11		1.44		0.493	0.722	0.607
DeadVeg	[-]	834.	552.	347.	280.	2.11		3.76		0.443	0.501	0.472

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	2.53
CLM50	[-]	1.98	0.270	2.53	1.73	0.00250		-1.01		0.467	0.0333	0.250
CTSM51	[-]	2.58	0.280	2.53	2.31	0.00250		-1.01		0.472	0.0407	0.256
DeadVeg	[-]	3.26	0.364	2.53	2.91	0.00250		-0.973		0.480	0.0613	0.271

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	11.1
CLM50	[-]	12.1	11.1	10.9	0.641	0.149		1.57		0.490	0.685	0.588
CTSM51	[-]	13.1	12.1	10.9	0.697	0.149		1.97		0.486	0.638	0.562
DeadVeg	[-]	15.5	14.5	10.9	0.656	0.149		2.81		0.468	0.536	0.502

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.55
CLM50	[-]	17.6	3.13	1.52	14.4	0.0247		3.01		0.375	0.567	0.471
CTSM51	[-]	18.7	3.94	1.52	14.6	0.0247		4.14		0.325	0.488	0.407
DeadVeg	[-]	20.5	5.28	1.52	15.1	0.0247		5.81		0.286	0.295	0.291

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.219
CLM50	[-]	4.57	0.136	0.219	4.48			-0.275		0.603	0.132	0.367
CTSM51	[-]	7.90	0.183	0.219	7.76			-0.130		0.596	0.272	0.434
DeadVeg	[-]	9.12	0.237	0.219	8.93			0.0377		0.580	0.487	0.534

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	100.
CLM50	[-]	152.	151.	100.	0.461	0.0690		6.49		0.543	0.837	0.690
CTSM51	[-]	159.	158.	100.	0.493	0.0690		7.33		0.519	0.779	0.649
DeadVeg	[-]	235.	234.	100.	0.561	0.0690		16.4		0.281	0.524	0.403

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	18.4
CLM50	[-]	27.4	27.5	18.4	0.402	0.0281		1.63		0.514	0.510	0.512
CTSM51	[-]	28.6	28.6	18.4	0.427	0.0281		1.81		0.492	0.502	0.497
DeadVeg	[-]	38.8	39.0	18.4	0.461	0.0281		3.35		0.409	0.481	0.445

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	7.28
CLM50	[-]	7.18	7.04	7.15	0.161	0.128		0.747		0.517	0.484	0.501
CTSM51	[-]	7.85	7.76	7.15	0.153	0.128		1.06		0.505	0.417	0.461
DeadVeg	[-]	8.33	8.22	7.15	0.162	0.128		1.40		0.494	0.330	0.412

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 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)

  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

  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.

  Conventions:

CF-1.6

  Institute_id:

NASA-JPL

  Creation_date:

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

  Product:

observations

  Data_structure:

grid

  Realm:

land

  Contact:

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