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

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	304.
CLM50	[-]	306.	306.	304.	304.	304.		1.76	1.96	0.274		0.273	0.829	0.966	0.996	0.779
CTSM51	[-]	305.	305.	304.	304.	304.		1.68	1.89	0.291		0.285	0.832	0.964	0.994	0.781
DeadVeg	[-]	302.	302.	304.	303.	304.		-1.53	1.82	0.830		0.354	0.681	0.915	0.983	0.722

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	307.
CLM50	[-]	309.	309.	307.	305.	306.		2.11	2.22	0.170		0.464	0.878	0.986	0.998	0.841
CTSM51	[-]	309.	309.	307.	305.	306.		2.12	2.23	0.175		0.462	0.882	0.986	0.998	0.842
DeadVeg	[-]	306.	306.	307.	304.	306.		-1.12	1.66	0.379		0.635	0.725	0.972	0.996	0.811

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	301.
CLM50	[-]	303.	303.	301.	300.	302.		1.81	2.02	0.323		0.419	0.865	0.959	0.999	0.822
CTSM51	[-]	303.	303.	301.	300.	302.		1.80	2.01	0.336		0.421	0.868	0.956	0.998	0.822
DeadVeg	[-]	300.	300.	301.	300.	302.		-1.11	1.70	0.559		0.525	0.706	0.930	0.989	0.771

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	266.
CLM50	[-]	266.	266.	266.	270.	269.		0.541	1.28	0.0260		0.942	0.945	0.998	0.999	0.966
CTSM51	[-]	266.	266.	266.	270.	269.		0.0609	1.37	0.0329		0.949	0.934	0.998	0.999	0.963
DeadVeg	[-]	263.	263.	266.	266.	269.		-2.66	3.47	0.0351		0.846	0.884	0.998	0.995	0.921

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	304.
CLM50	[-]	305.	305.	304.	304.	303.		1.28	1.71	0.708		0.139	0.718	0.895	0.907	0.675
CTSM51	[-]	305.	305.	304.	304.	303.		1.13	1.59	0.717		0.155	0.715	0.895	0.911	0.678
DeadVeg	[-]	302.	302.	304.	302.	303.		-1.72	1.95	1.14		0.216	0.630	0.837	0.663	0.595

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	276.
CLM50	[-]	277.	277.	276.	278.	278.		0.316	0.891	0.00745		0.960	0.960	0.999	1.00	0.976
CTSM51	[-]	276.	276.	276.	278.	278.		-0.217	1.23	0.00747		0.955	0.934	0.999	1.00	0.965
DeadVeg	[-]	274.	274.	276.	276.	278.		-2.73	2.97	0.0131		0.832	0.934	0.999	0.985	0.937

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	286.
CLM50	[-]	287.	287.	286.	290.	292.		0.990	1.48	0.0691		0.865	0.956	0.995	1.00	0.954
CTSM51	[-]	287.	287.	286.	290.	292.		0.831	1.49	0.0699		0.871	0.947	0.995	1.00	0.952
DeadVeg	[-]	284.	284.	286.	289.	292.		-1.62	2.20	0.0862		0.826	0.927	0.994	0.997	0.934

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	303.
CLM50	[-]	304.	304.	303.	304.	304.		1.35	1.85	0.202		0.597	0.867	0.979	1.00	0.862
CTSM51	[-]	304.	304.	303.	304.	304.		1.30	1.82	0.206		0.601	0.868	0.978	1.00	0.863
DeadVeg	[-]	301.	301.	303.	303.	304.		-1.31	1.98	0.242		0.629	0.795	0.976	0.997	0.838

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	268.
CLM50	[-]	268.	268.	268.	269.	268.		-0.122	0.847	0.0108		0.966	0.957	0.999	1.00	0.976
CTSM51	[-]	267.	267.	268.	269.	268.		-0.629	1.29	0.0326		0.948	0.938	0.998	1.00	0.964
DeadVeg	[-]	265.	265.	268.	266.	268.		-2.90	3.35	0.0114		0.828	0.904	0.999	1.00	0.927

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	301.
CLM50	[-]	303.	304.	301.	298.	299.		1.79	1.95	0.114		0.667	0.929	0.991	0.997	0.903
CTSM51	[-]	303.	303.	301.	298.	299.		1.75	1.92	0.110		0.672	0.930	0.991	0.997	0.904
DeadVeg	[-]	300.	300.	301.	296.	299.		-1.70	1.87	0.116		0.695	0.890	0.991	1.00	0.893

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	286.
CLM50	[-]	286.	286.	286.	287.	289.		0.565	1.16	0.304		0.877	0.932	0.980	0.997	0.943
CTSM51	[-]	286.	286.	286.	287.	289.		0.226	1.31	0.315		0.884	0.904	0.979	0.994	0.933
DeadVeg	[-]	285.	284.	286.	286.	289.		-1.36	1.82	0.202		0.807	0.919	0.986	0.997	0.926

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	292.
CLM50	[-]	289.	294.	292.	253.	295.		1.20	1.68	0.166		0.679	0.909	0.982	0.997	0.895
CTSM51	[-]	289.	293.	292.	252.	295.		1.03	1.71	0.168		0.685	0.902	0.982	0.996	0.893
DeadVeg	[-]	289.	290.	292.	278.	295.		-1.85	2.36	0.277		0.667	0.833	0.970	0.993	0.860

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	303.
CLM50	[-]	305.	305.	303.	299.	303.		1.78	2.06	0.120		0.729	0.946	0.990	0.998	0.922
CTSM51	[-]	305.	305.	303.	299.	303.		1.76	2.05	0.119		0.730	0.945	0.990	0.997	0.922
DeadVeg	[-]	302.	302.	303.	299.	303.		-1.09	1.94	0.262		0.775	0.877	0.980	0.999	0.901

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	269.
CLM50	[-]	269.	269.	269.	268.	270.		0.365	1.17	0.0160		0.939	0.938	0.999	1.00	0.963
CTSM51	[-]	269.	269.	269.	268.	270.		-0.0246	1.36	0.0203		0.942	0.919	0.999	1.00	0.956
DeadVeg	[-]	266.	266.	269.	264.	270.		-2.40	3.10	0.00825		0.831	0.869	0.999	0.996	0.913

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	302.
CLM50	[-]	304.	304.	302.	303.	303.		1.44	1.98	0.282		0.520	0.852	0.974	0.987	0.837
CTSM51	[-]	303.	303.	302.	303.	303.		1.37	1.93	0.280		0.527	0.854	0.974	0.988	0.840
DeadVeg	[-]	300.	300.	302.	302.	303.		-1.88	2.47	0.268		0.490	0.779	0.979	0.981	0.801

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	292.
CLM50	[-]	293.	293.	292.	299.	297.		1.03	1.20	0.0615		0.877	0.963	0.996	0.997	0.959
CTSM51	[-]	293.	293.	292.	299.	297.		0.776	1.16	0.0579		0.895	0.944	0.996	0.996	0.955
DeadVeg	[-]	290.	290.	292.	297.	297.		-1.68	1.77	0.0609		0.828	0.944	0.996	0.999	0.942

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	280.
CLM50	[-]	280.	280.	280.	281.	282.		0.653	1.01	0.0411		0.924	0.955	0.997	0.999	0.966
CTSM51	[-]	280.	280.	280.	281.	282.		0.291	1.03	0.0409		0.938	0.936	0.997	0.998	0.961
DeadVeg	[-]	277.	277.	280.	280.	282.		-2.04	2.31	0.0693		0.834	0.921	0.995	0.995	0.933

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	291.
CLM50	[-]	292.	292.	291.	293.	292.		1.27	1.62	0.0451		0.842	0.940	0.997	0.999	0.944
CTSM51	[-]	292.	292.	291.	293.	292.		1.03	1.60	0.0465		0.856	0.923	0.997	0.998	0.939
DeadVeg	[-]	288.	288.	291.	290.	292.		-2.55	2.92	0.0623		0.747	0.893	0.996	1.00	0.906

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	304.
CLM50	[-]	306.	306.	304.	304.	304.		1.69	1.93	0.431		0.214	0.834	0.941	1.00	0.765
CTSM51	[-]	306.	306.	304.	304.	304.		1.56	1.80	0.430		0.236	0.836	0.941	1.00	0.770
DeadVeg	[-]	302.	302.	304.	303.	304.		-2.03	2.30	0.924		0.198	0.700	0.880	0.999	0.696

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	302.
CLM50	[-]	303.	303.	301.	300.	297.		1.72	1.81	0.260		0.475	0.875	0.969	0.998	0.838
CTSM51	[-]	303.	303.	301.	300.	297.		1.67	1.76	0.243		0.482	0.876	0.971	0.998	0.841
DeadVeg	[-]	300.	300.	302.	299.	297.		-1.65	1.84	0.421		0.504	0.767	0.953	0.994	0.797

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	290.
CLM50	[-]	292.	292.	290.	293.	289.		1.73	2.28	0.287		0.548	0.846	0.963	0.996	0.840
CTSM51	[-]	292.	292.	290.	293.	289.		1.56	2.28	0.286		0.558	0.832	0.964	0.993	0.836
DeadVeg	[-]	290.	290.	290.	292.	289.		-0.560	2.11	0.374		0.601	0.755	0.952	0.999	0.812

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 max month Temporally integrated mean phase shift Temporally integrated mean phase shift 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

  Title:

CRU time series (TS) high-resolution gridded datasets

  Version:

4.02

  Institutions:

Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK

  Source:

monthly observations at meteorological stations across the world land areas

  History:

2019-05-06: downloaded source from https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/cru_ts_4.02/

2019-05-06: converted to netCDF with https://gist.github.com/nocollier/d73585731756fa472731065389af45dc

  References:

Harris, I., P.D. Jones, T.J. Osborn and D.H. Lister (2014), Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset, International Journal of Climatology, 34(3), 623-642, doi:10.1002/joc.3711

  Comments:

time_period: 1960-01 through 2017-12

original_temporal_resolution: monthly

original_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree

original_units: C

final_temporal_resolution: monthly

final_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree

final_units: K

  Convention:

CF-1.7