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	[-]	293.
CLM50	[-]	294.	294.	293.	297.	296.		0.771	1.07	0.563		0.430	0.647	0.941	0.999	0.733
CTSM51	[-]	294.	294.	293.	297.	296.		0.802	1.15	0.546		0.397	0.621	0.945	0.997	0.716
DeadVeg	[-]	294.	294.	293.	298.	296.		1.64	1.81	0.722		0.234	0.631	0.920	0.998	0.683

	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	[-]	293.
CLM50	[-]	294.	294.	293.	296.	295.		1.17	1.34	0.196		0.612	0.877	0.983	0.989	0.868
CTSM51	[-]	294.	294.	293.	296.	295.		1.05	1.37	0.236		0.626	0.847	0.981	0.986	0.857
DeadVeg	[-]	295.	295.	293.	298.	295.		1.95	2.25	0.364		0.479	0.766	0.969	0.973	0.791

	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	[-]	289.
CLM50	[-]	289.	289.	289.	293.	293.		0.943	1.18	0.539		0.663	0.894	0.934	1.00	0.877
CTSM51	[-]	289.	289.	289.	293.	293.		0.932	1.23	0.585		0.657	0.878	0.926	1.00	0.868
DeadVeg	[-]	290.	290.	289.	293.	293.		1.88	2.09	0.731		0.516	0.842	0.908	0.999	0.821

	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	[-]	257.
CLM50	[-]	257.	257.	257.	264.	262.		0.458	1.20	0.0290		0.931	0.961	0.998	0.999	0.970
CTSM51	[-]	256.	256.	257.	263.	262.		-0.0512	1.32	0.0289		0.930	0.952	0.998	1.00	0.966
DeadVeg	[-]	257.	257.	257.	261.	262.		0.563	2.09	0.0196		0.914	0.914	0.999	0.959	0.940

	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	[-]	294.
CLM50	[-]	295.	295.	294.	297.	295.		1.21	1.54	1.25		0.235	0.753	0.805	0.961	0.701
CTSM51	[-]	295.	295.	294.	297.	295.		1.19	1.54	1.50		0.252	0.689	0.765	0.935	0.666
DeadVeg	[-]	296.	296.	294.	297.	295.		1.84	2.13	1.73		0.144	0.631	0.737	0.965	0.622

	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	[-]	265.	265.	266.	272.	270.		-0.210	0.876	0.0213		0.945	0.970	0.999	0.997	0.976
CTSM51	[-]	264.	264.	266.	271.	270.		-1.34	1.81	0.0222		0.890	0.936	0.999	0.999	0.952
DeadVeg	[-]	266.	265.	266.	270.	270.		-0.181	1.41	0.0285		0.930	0.933	0.998	0.990	0.957

	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	[-]	274.
CLM50	[-]	275.	275.	274.	285.	284.		0.622	1.30	0.0194		0.881	0.957	0.999	0.999	0.959
CTSM51	[-]	275.	274.	274.	285.	284.		0.252	1.42	0.0667		0.877	0.944	0.996	0.999	0.952
DeadVeg	[-]	275.	275.	274.	284.	284.		0.649	1.74	0.0930		0.861	0.928	0.994	1.00	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	[-]	291.
CLM50	[-]	292.	292.	291.	297.	296.		0.771	1.43	0.264		0.707	0.905	0.978	0.999	0.899
CTSM51	[-]	291.	291.	291.	297.	296.		0.402	1.47	0.305		0.712	0.884	0.975	0.997	0.891
DeadVeg	[-]	292.	292.	291.	297.	296.		1.18	2.03	0.338		0.630	0.863	0.972	0.981	0.862

	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	[-]	260.
CLM50	[-]	259.	259.	259.	264.	260.		-0.112	0.832	0.0166		0.957	0.967	0.999	1.00	0.978
CTSM51	[-]	258.	258.	259.	263.	260.		-0.798	1.39	0.0165		0.926	0.954	0.999	1.00	0.967
DeadVeg	[-]	259.	259.	260.	261.	260.		-0.484	1.69	0.0267		0.929	0.921	0.998	0.987	0.951

	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	[-]	288.
CLM50	[-]	289.	289.	288.	290.	289.		1.08	1.17	0.145		0.782	0.945	0.990	1.00	0.932
CTSM51	[-]	289.	289.	288.	290.	289.		0.976	1.11	0.147		0.793	0.944	0.989	0.999	0.934
DeadVeg	[-]	290.	290.	288.	290.	289.		1.77	1.88	0.182		0.682	0.923	0.987	0.999	0.903

	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	[-]	278.
CLM50	[-]	277.	277.	278.	281.	282.		-0.0631	0.995	0.376		0.857	0.944	0.975	0.996	0.943
CTSM51	[-]	276.	276.	278.	280.	282.		-0.695	1.35	0.432		0.823	0.919	0.971	0.993	0.925
DeadVeg	[-]	277.	277.	278.	280.	282.		0.180	1.35	0.467		0.832	0.898	0.969	0.996	0.918

	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	[-]	281.
CLM50	[-]	277.	281.	281.	245.	286.		0.660	1.22	0.273		0.757	0.911	0.968	0.999	0.909
CTSM51	[-]	277.	281.	281.	245.	286.		0.394	1.35	0.314		0.750	0.893	0.963	0.998	0.899
DeadVeg	[-]	281.	281.	281.	275.	286.		1.02	1.88	0.410		0.685	0.866	0.952	0.998	0.873

	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	[-]	289.
CLM50	[-]	289.	289.	289.	292.	292.		0.640	1.09	0.265		0.849	0.938	0.979	1.00	0.941
CTSM51	[-]	289.	289.	289.	291.	292.		0.572	1.09	0.290		0.851	0.934	0.977	1.00	0.939
DeadVeg	[-]	290.	290.	289.	292.	292.		0.928	1.59	0.455		0.808	0.884	0.961	1.00	0.908

	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	[-]	260.
CLM50	[-]	261.	260.	260.	263.	262.		0.425	1.04	0.0470		0.937	0.957	0.997	0.999	0.970
CTSM51	[-]	260.	260.	260.	262.	262.		0.0239	1.18	0.0556		0.934	0.947	0.996	1.00	0.965
DeadVeg	[-]	260.	260.	260.	259.	262.		-0.0693	1.54	0.0510		0.933	0.917	0.997	0.994	0.952

	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	[-]	289.
CLM50	[-]	289.	289.	289.	294.	293.		1.37	1.85	0.291		0.561	0.866	0.975	0.999	0.853
CTSM51	[-]	289.	289.	289.	294.	293.		1.34	1.83	0.290		0.561	0.866	0.976	0.999	0.854
DeadVeg	[-]	291.	290.	289.	295.	293.		2.46	2.74	0.333		0.440	0.842	0.972	0.999	0.819

	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	[-]	281.	281.	280.	289.	287.		0.978	1.11	0.0389		0.884	0.959	0.997	1.00	0.960
CTSM51	[-]	281.	281.	280.	289.	287.		0.857	1.04	0.0504		0.894	0.956	0.997	1.00	0.960
DeadVeg	[-]	282.	281.	280.	289.	287.		1.67	1.78	0.0735		0.820	0.950	0.995	1.00	0.943

	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.	274.	275.		0.370	0.847	0.0369		0.924	0.959	0.998	0.998	0.967
CTSM51	[-]	268.	268.	269.	274.	275.		-0.0546	1.02	0.0540		0.921	0.937	0.996	0.996	0.957
DeadVeg	[-]	269.	269.	269.	274.	275.		0.602	1.29	0.0948		0.904	0.930	0.994	0.994	0.950

	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.	283.	281.		1.45	1.84	0.0651		0.792	0.926	0.996	0.998	0.927
CTSM51	[-]	277.	277.	276.	282.	281.		1.21	1.80	0.0807		0.802	0.914	0.995	0.999	0.925
DeadVeg	[-]	278.	278.	276.	284.	281.		2.13	2.51	0.0641		0.737	0.905	0.996	0.999	0.908

	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	[-]	294.
CLM50	[-]	295.	295.	294.	297.	295.		0.886	1.22	1.11		0.371	0.768	0.833	0.996	0.747
CTSM51	[-]	295.	295.	294.	297.	295.		0.958	1.36	1.30		0.332	0.715	0.802	0.999	0.712
DeadVeg	[-]	295.	295.	294.	298.	295.		1.57	1.90	1.86		0.196	0.740	0.716	1.00	0.679

	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	[-]	291.	291.	290.	293.	288.		0.956	1.11	0.495		0.649	0.897	0.933	0.999	0.875
CTSM51	[-]	291.	291.	290.	293.	288.		0.862	1.10	0.558		0.655	0.890	0.924	0.996	0.871
DeadVeg	[-]	292.	291.	290.	293.	288.		1.53	1.72	0.617		0.538	0.848	0.918	0.998	0.830

	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	[-]	278.
CLM50	[-]	279.	278.	278.	284.	281.		1.20	2.02	0.122		0.594	0.888	0.990	1.00	0.872
CTSM51	[-]	278.	278.	278.	284.	281.		1.01	2.02	0.175		0.597	0.866	0.986	1.00	0.863
DeadVeg	[-]	279.	279.	278.	285.	281.		1.76	2.80	0.290		0.502	0.821	0.978	0.976	0.820

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