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	[-]	298.
CLM50	[-]	299.	299.	298.	300.	300.		0.310	0.674	0.329		0.632	0.789	0.969	1.00	0.836
CTSM51	[-]	299.	299.	298.	300.	300.		0.294	0.688	0.357		0.619	0.788	0.965	1.00	0.832
DeadVeg	[-]	298.	298.	298.	301.	300.		-0.566	1.16	0.688		0.407	0.676	0.934	0.962	0.731

	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	[-]	300.
CLM50	[-]	301.	301.	300.	301.	300.		0.524	0.822	0.178		0.729	0.875	0.986	0.992	0.891
CTSM51	[-]	301.	301.	300.	300.	300.		0.392	0.837	0.198		0.747	0.847	0.984	0.989	0.883
DeadVeg	[-]	300.	300.	300.	301.	300.		-0.303	1.21	0.422		0.726	0.696	0.970	0.984	0.814

	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	[-]	295.
CLM50	[-]	296.	296.	295.	296.	297.		0.483	0.835	0.278		0.702	0.872	0.967	0.999	0.882
CTSM51	[-]	295.	295.	295.	296.	297.		0.397	0.844	0.282		0.708	0.850	0.966	1.00	0.875
DeadVeg	[-]	295.	295.	295.	296.	297.		-0.332	1.08	0.481		0.673	0.763	0.940	1.00	0.828

	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	[-]	262.
CLM50	[-]	262.	262.	262.	267.	266.		0.242	1.08	0.0189		0.941	0.961	0.999	1.00	0.972
CTSM51	[-]	261.	261.	262.	267.	266.		-0.289	1.28	0.0185		0.936	0.952	0.999	1.00	0.967
DeadVeg	[-]	261.	260.	262.	264.	266.		-1.11	2.25	0.0191		0.908	0.901	0.999	0.994	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	[-]	299.
CLM50	[-]	299.	299.	299.	300.	299.		0.243	0.738	0.644		0.402	0.782	0.909	0.963	0.768
CTSM51	[-]	299.	299.	299.	300.	299.		0.192	0.748	0.696		0.400	0.756	0.902	0.957	0.754
DeadVeg	[-]	298.	298.	299.	299.	299.		-0.509	1.04	1.21		0.301	0.669	0.823	0.967	0.686

	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	[-]	271.
CLM50	[-]	271.	271.	271.	275.	274.		0.00946	0.595	0.00702		0.966	0.976	1.00	1.00	0.984
CTSM51	[-]	270.	270.	271.	275.	274.		-0.855	1.30	0.00702		0.931	0.944	1.00	1.00	0.964
DeadVeg	[-]	270.	270.	271.	274.	274.		-1.48	1.80	0.0118		0.896	0.941	0.999	0.999	0.955

	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	[-]	281.	280.	280.	288.	288.		0.278	1.06	0.0252		0.900	0.963	0.998	1.00	0.965
CTSM51	[-]	280.	280.	280.	288.	288.		-0.0159	1.19	0.0358		0.896	0.950	0.998	1.00	0.959
DeadVeg	[-]	280.	280.	280.	287.	288.		-0.685	1.56	0.0454		0.872	0.935	0.997	0.999	0.947

	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	[-]	297.
CLM50	[-]	297.	297.	297.	300.	300.		0.102	1.05	0.181		0.764	0.894	0.983	1.00	0.907
CTSM51	[-]	297.	297.	297.	300.	300.		-0.131	1.14	0.188		0.760	0.871	0.983	0.999	0.897
DeadVeg	[-]	296.	296.	297.	300.	300.		-0.366	1.27	0.218		0.748	0.859	0.980	0.989	0.887

	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	[-]	264.
CLM50	[-]	264.	264.	264.	267.	264.		0.137	0.661	0.0134		0.967	0.971	0.999	1.00	0.981
CTSM51	[-]	263.	263.	264.	266.	264.		-0.466	1.03	0.0178		0.951	0.958	0.999	1.00	0.973
DeadVeg	[-]	263.	263.	264.	264.	265.		-1.50	2.10	0.0126		0.900	0.919	0.999	0.999	0.947

	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	[-]	295.
CLM50	[-]	295.	295.	295.	294.	294.		0.414	0.640	0.0891		0.884	0.939	0.994	1.00	0.951
CTSM51	[-]	295.	295.	295.	293.	294.		0.271	0.614	0.0931		0.896	0.928	0.994	1.00	0.949
DeadVeg	[-]	295.	295.	295.	293.	294.		-0.241	0.709	0.102		0.882	0.927	0.993	1.00	0.946

	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	[-]	282.
CLM50	[-]	282.	282.	282.	284.	286.		0.125	0.812	0.116		0.897	0.949	0.992	1.00	0.957
CTSM51	[-]	281.	281.	282.	284.	286.		-0.400	1.14	0.173		0.876	0.913	0.988	0.999	0.938
DeadVeg	[-]	281.	281.	282.	283.	286.		-0.763	1.28	0.153		0.853	0.924	0.990	0.999	0.938

	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	[-]	287.
CLM50	[-]	283.	287.	287.	249.	291.		0.235	0.858	0.148		0.827	0.920	0.984	1.00	0.930
CTSM51	[-]	282.	287.	287.	249.	291.		-0.0192	0.980	0.160		0.822	0.903	0.983	0.999	0.922
DeadVeg	[-]	285.	286.	287.	277.	291.		-0.822	1.49	0.258		0.760	0.859	0.973	0.997	0.889

	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	[-]	296.
CLM50	[-]	296.	296.	296.	295.	298.		0.278	0.827	0.159		0.893	0.944	0.988	1.00	0.954
CTSM51	[-]	296.	296.	296.	295.	298.		0.216	0.827	0.170		0.894	0.943	0.987	1.00	0.953
DeadVeg	[-]	295.	295.	296.	296.	298.		-0.688	1.45	0.324		0.826	0.897	0.974	1.00	0.919

	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	[-]	265.
CLM50	[-]	265.	265.	265.	266.	266.		0.225	0.914	0.0175		0.942	0.960	0.999	1.00	0.972
CTSM51	[-]	265.	265.	265.	265.	266.		-0.219	1.14	0.0191		0.935	0.946	0.999	0.998	0.965
DeadVeg	[-]	263.	264.	265.	262.	266.		-1.47	2.15	0.0101		0.888	0.897	0.999	0.997	0.936

	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	[-]	296.
CLM50	[-]	296.	295.	296.	298.	299.		0.381	1.16	0.266		0.661	0.876	0.978	0.998	0.878
CTSM51	[-]	295.	295.	296.	298.	299.		0.250	1.16	0.255		0.664	0.863	0.979	0.999	0.874
DeadVeg	[-]	295.	295.	296.	298.	299.		-0.275	1.30	0.304		0.644	0.845	0.977	0.997	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	[-]	286.
CLM50	[-]	286.	286.	286.	294.	292.		0.263	0.521	0.0289		0.943	0.974	0.998	1.00	0.978
CTSM51	[-]	286.	286.	286.	294.	292.		0.0449	0.534	0.0378		0.947	0.965	0.997	1.00	0.975
DeadVeg	[-]	285.	285.	286.	293.	292.		-0.704	0.856	0.0343		0.913	0.964	0.998	1.00	0.968

	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	[-]	275.
CLM50	[-]	274.	274.	274.	278.	278.		0.132	0.645	0.0344		0.942	0.966	0.998	0.999	0.974
CTSM51	[-]	274.	274.	274.	278.	278.		-0.350	0.908	0.0519		0.932	0.943	0.997	0.997	0.962
DeadVeg	[-]	273.	273.	274.	277.	278.		-1.19	1.54	0.0970		0.885	0.931	0.993	0.991	0.946

	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	[-]	284.
CLM50	[-]	284.	284.	284.	287.	286.		0.371	1.05	0.0272		0.879	0.949	0.998	1.00	0.955
CTSM51	[-]	283.	284.	284.	287.	286.		0.0533	1.13	0.0408		0.881	0.932	0.997	1.00	0.948
DeadVeg	[-]	283.	283.	284.	287.	286.		-0.722	1.45	0.0542		0.858	0.917	0.996	1.00	0.938

	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	[-]	299.
CLM50	[-]	299.	299.	299.	300.	299.		0.115	0.651	0.470		0.643	0.818	0.936	0.999	0.843
CTSM51	[-]	299.	299.	299.	300.	299.		0.113	0.699	0.482		0.619	0.791	0.935	1.00	0.827
DeadVeg	[-]	298.	298.	299.	300.	299.		-0.870	1.26	0.778		0.339	0.709	0.891	0.999	0.729

	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	[-]	296.
CLM50	[-]	296.	296.	296.	296.	293.		0.340	0.606	0.221		0.770	0.902	0.973	1.00	0.909
CTSM51	[-]	296.	296.	296.	296.	293.		0.212	0.614	0.236		0.780	0.880	0.971	0.998	0.902
DeadVeg	[-]	295.	295.	296.	296.	293.		-0.581	0.914	0.376		0.708	0.837	0.957	0.999	0.868

	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	[-]	284.
CLM50	[-]	284.	284.	284.	288.	285.		0.460	1.51	0.190		0.659	0.878	0.977	1.00	0.879
CTSM51	[-]	284.	284.	284.	288.	285.		0.259	1.56	0.194		0.659	0.849	0.977	1.00	0.867
DeadVeg	[-]	284.	284.	284.	288.	285.		-0.153	1.82	0.325		0.631	0.811	0.965	0.997	0.843

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/

2019-05-07: converted to netCDF with https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-tas-cru.py

  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: 1980-01 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