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) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	30.2
CLM50	[-]	33.8	33.6	31.4		12.0		2.77	7.14	2.02		0.618	0.712	0.690	0.954	0.737
CTSM51	[-]	38.8	38.5	31.4		12.0		7.48	10.7	1.96		0.259	0.686	0.699	0.884	0.643
DeadVeg	[-]	44.1	43.8	31.2		12.0		12.9	14.0	1.78		0.169	0.701	0.742	0.976	0.658

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	43.2
CLM50	[-]	45.2	45.7	43.7		14.0		1.73	8.33	1.42		0.617	0.551	0.794	0.976	0.698
CTSM51	[-]	46.3	46.7	43.7		14.0		2.73	8.88	1.43		0.510	0.556	0.794	0.955	0.674
DeadVeg	[-]	50.2	50.6	43.6		14.0		6.83	10.6	1.40		0.346	0.695	0.809	0.951	0.699

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	32.7
CLM50	[-]	36.7	36.7	33.5		15.6		3.28	7.86	1.71		0.607	0.646	0.744	0.916	0.712
CTSM51	[-]	39.2	39.2	33.5		15.6		5.61	8.76	1.62		0.484	0.644	0.760	0.884	0.683
DeadVeg	[-]	43.0	43.1	33.5		15.6		9.53	10.7	1.27		0.283	0.765	0.826	0.919	0.712

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	39.3
CLM50	[-]	33.8	33.8	39.3		34.2		-4.89	17.9	0.212		0.470	0.470	0.986	0.950	0.669
CTSM51	[-]	38.4	38.4	39.3		34.2		-0.512	15.3	0.227		0.640	0.534	0.984	0.870	0.713
DeadVeg	[-]	33.3	33.2	39.8		33.8		-6.09	18.3	0.149		0.446	0.445	0.990	0.715	0.608

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	18.1
CLM50	[-]	27.7	27.6	19.7		13.0		8.65	9.45	1.79		0.411	0.823	0.722	0.371	0.630
CTSM51	[-]	34.6	34.5	19.7		13.0		15.3	15.6	1.80		0.0743	0.803	0.720	0.423	0.564
DeadVeg	[-]	43.4	43.4	19.6		13.0		23.9	24.2	2.20		0.000433	0.715	0.657	0.655	0.548

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	26.4
CLM50	[-]	24.5	24.3	26.3		20.8		-1.99	8.84	0.350		0.635	0.598	0.967	0.978	0.755
CTSM51	[-]	28.4	28.3	26.3		20.8		2.01	9.01	0.432		0.640	0.583	0.960	0.881	0.729
DeadVeg	[-]	26.9	26.8	26.4		20.7		0.413	10.5	0.668		0.661	0.478	0.919	0.794	0.666

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	34.3
CLM50	[-]	35.1	35.0	34.6		9.56		-0.160	7.77	0.747		0.587	0.632	0.910	0.934	0.739
CTSM51	[-]	36.7	36.7	34.6		9.56		1.60	9.00	0.715		0.463	0.619	0.913	0.838	0.690
DeadVeg	[-]	38.2	38.2	34.7		9.60		3.01	11.1	1.04		0.417	0.497	0.864	0.833	0.622

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	27.2
CLM50	[-]	33.4	33.3	28.3		13.1		4.55	8.47	1.27		0.531	0.639	0.848	0.877	0.707
CTSM51	[-]	36.7	36.6	28.3		13.1		7.97	11.1	1.03		0.292	0.616	0.881	0.762	0.633
DeadVeg	[-]	41.5	41.4	28.2		13.1		12.8	15.1	0.841		0.122	0.579	0.904	0.853	0.607

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	35.4
CLM50	[-]	30.1	30.0	35.1		35.2		-4.59	15.5	0.163		0.567	0.489	0.989	0.876	0.682
CTSM51	[-]	35.7	35.6	35.1		35.2		0.777	13.7	0.191		0.713	0.540	0.987	0.857	0.728
DeadVeg	[-]	31.4	31.3	35.5		34.8		-3.83	15.3	0.163		0.616	0.467	0.989	0.806	0.669

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	35.1
CLM50	[-]	39.7	39.7	37.0		13.0		1.86	6.45	0.487		0.680	0.822	0.957	0.846	0.825
CTSM51	[-]	42.5	42.5	37.0		13.0		4.79	7.25	0.498		0.622	0.833	0.957	0.800	0.809
DeadVeg	[-]	46.3	46.3	36.9		13.0		8.72	9.85	0.584		0.484	0.811	0.955	0.740	0.760

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	19.1
CLM50	[-]	22.2	22.2	19.8		10.3		2.35	6.74	0.754		0.621	0.659	0.916	0.890	0.749
CTSM51	[-]	25.5	25.5	19.8		10.3		5.65	8.44	0.662		0.459	0.630	0.918	0.821	0.692
DeadVeg	[-]	28.7	28.7	19.9		10.4		8.54	11.3	0.464		0.245	0.536	0.952	0.899	0.634

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	42.6
CLM50	[-]	45.1	45.1	44.0		18.2		0.247	10.1	0.798		0.595	0.652	0.896	0.991	0.757
CTSM51	[-]	47.8	47.8	44.0		18.2		2.96	11.2	0.761		0.478	0.651	0.902	0.987	0.734
DeadVeg	[-]	45.0	45.0	43.9		18.2		0.685	20.3	0.885		0.380	0.608	0.890	0.575	0.612

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	71.6
CLM50	[-]	78.4	78.1	73.9		17.2		2.46	11.6	0.571		0.556	0.696	0.942	0.984	0.775
CTSM51	[-]	78.7	78.4	73.9		17.2		2.78	11.6	0.522		0.559	0.701	0.947	0.981	0.778
DeadVeg	[-]	80.5	80.3	73.7		17.3		4.93	12.8	0.655		0.511	0.690	0.936	0.980	0.761

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	43.2
CLM50	[-]	38.2	38.2	43.2		41.1		-3.98	16.9	0.187		0.535	0.440	0.986	0.977	0.675
CTSM51	[-]	41.4	41.3	43.2		41.1		-1.12	16.6	0.217		0.564	0.444	0.984	0.936	0.674
DeadVeg	[-]	39.2	39.2	43.4		41.2		-3.38	16.2	0.140		0.562	0.448	0.989	0.937	0.677

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	25.3
CLM50	[-]	34.1	34.1	27.8		13.4		5.89	9.38	0.689		0.474	0.779	0.917	0.665	0.723
CTSM51	[-]	37.8	37.8	27.8		13.4		9.66	11.7	0.662		0.330	0.763	0.919	0.607	0.676
DeadVeg	[-]	41.3	41.3	27.7		13.5		12.9	14.9	1.16		0.259	0.674	0.861	0.541	0.602

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	25.4
CLM50	[-]	27.5	27.4	26.0		12.1		1.23	5.63	1.00		0.678	0.649	0.860	0.874	0.742
CTSM51	[-]	31.7	31.6	26.0		12.1		5.43	6.99	0.765		0.446	0.701	0.892	0.699	0.688
DeadVeg	[-]	34.3	34.2	26.0		12.2		7.98	9.82	0.788		0.230	0.580	0.889	0.556	0.567

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	24.0
CLM50	[-]	24.7	24.8	24.4		10.8		0.131	8.12	0.346		0.568	0.561	0.965	0.986	0.728
CTSM51	[-]	30.0	30.0	24.4		10.8		5.45	9.77	0.422		0.439	0.537	0.954	0.962	0.686
DeadVeg	[-]	31.1	31.2	24.5		10.9		6.62	11.8	0.578		0.376	0.435	0.939	0.927	0.622

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	37.1
CLM50	[-]	35.0	35.1	37.5		13.3		-2.83	7.20	0.912		0.588	0.656	0.872	0.965	0.747
CTSM51	[-]	37.6	37.6	37.5		13.3		-0.263	6.57	0.879		0.631	0.688	0.872	0.906	0.757
DeadVeg	[-]	38.4	38.4	37.5		13.3		0.568	6.90	1.16		0.645	0.646	0.828	0.887	0.730

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	25.5
CLM50	[-]	27.3	27.3	25.8		12.0		1.69	3.79	1.58		0.756	0.803	0.775	0.805	0.789
CTSM51	[-]	34.1	34.1	25.8		12.0		8.39	8.92	1.52		0.208	0.778	0.788	0.788	0.668
DeadVeg	[-]	37.9	37.9	25.8		12.0		12.2	12.7	1.67		0.115	0.711	0.760	0.968	0.653

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	29.8
CLM50	[-]	31.8	31.8	30.3		12.1		1.42	4.88	1.13		0.757	0.708	0.843	0.804	0.764
CTSM51	[-]	34.4	34.4	30.3		12.1		4.02	5.84	1.02		0.591	0.753	0.867	0.690	0.731
DeadVeg	[-]	36.9	36.9	30.4		12.1		6.45	7.60	1.17		0.441	0.748	0.857	0.637	0.686

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [W m-2]	Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]		Bias [W m-2]	RMSE [W m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	29.0
CLM50	[-]	33.5	33.5	30.9		13.3		2.11	8.38	0.736		0.501	0.730	0.913	0.953	0.765
CTSM51	[-]	36.1	36.1	30.9		13.3		4.70	9.58	0.735		0.434	0.703	0.916	0.910	0.733
DeadVeg	[-]	38.4	38.4	30.7		13.3		7.48	12.8	0.773		0.306	0.644	0.912	0.753	0.652

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:

CERES EBAF TOA and Surface Fluxes

  Version:

Ed4.1

  Institutions:

NASA Langley Research Center

  Source:

Monthly mean surface fluxes calculated by a radiative transfer model and constrained by the combined Terra and Aqua SSF1deg measurements

  History:

2019-06-25: downloaded source from https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/products-info.php?product=EBAF

2019-08-13: converted to netCDF with https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-rsus-ceres.py

  References:

Loeb, N.G., D.R. Doelling, H. Wang, W. Su, C. Nguyen, J.G. Corbett, L. Liang, C. Mitrescu, F.G. Rose, and S. Kato (2018), Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) Top-of-Atmosphere (TOA) Edition-4.0 Data Product, Journal of Climate, 31(2), 895-918, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0208.1

Kato, S., F. G. Rose, D. A. Rutan, T. E. Thorsen, N. G. Loeb, D. R. Doelling, X. Huang, W. L. Smith, W. Su, and S.-H. Ham (2018), Surface irradiances of Edition 4.0 Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) data product, Journal of Climate, 31, 4501-4527, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0523.1

  Comments:

time_period: 2000-01 through 2018-12

original_temporal_resolution: monthly

original_spatial_resolution: 1 degree

original_units: W m-2

final_temporal_resolution: monthly

final_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree

final_units: W m-2

  Convention:

CF-1.7