Asia - East Siberia Asia - North Central Asia - South Central Asia and China Asia - Southeast Asia and India Asia - West Siberia 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

	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	[-]	4.43
Fullgrid	[-]	7.66	7.45	4.41	0.454	0.0247		1.36		0.394	0.646	0.520
Sparsegrid	[-]	10.4	9.43	4.41	1.22	0.0247		1.73		0.404	0.271	0.337

	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	[-]	40.1
Fullgrid	[-]	70.1	67.4	40.0	0.485	0.0558		3.26		0.484	0.544	0.514
Sparsegrid	[-]	65.7	62.2	40.0	1.15	0.0558		2.46		0.510	0.583	0.546

	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	[-]	28.0
Fullgrid	[-]	42.0	21.3	27.9	21.7	0.110		-0.134		0.522	0.560	0.541
Sparsegrid	[-]	52.9	29.9	27.9	22.5	0.110		0.262		0.486	0.488	0.487

	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	[-]	0.341
Fullgrid	[-]	34.7	0.0947	0.341	32.2			-1.62		0.495	0.853	0.674
Sparsegrid	[-]	50.3	0.513	0.341	46.1			1.16		0.333	0.0748	0.204

	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	[-]	3.80
Fullgrid	[-]	8.19	8.25	3.80	0.947	0.00129		1.80		0.340	0.588	0.464
Sparsegrid	[-]	7.90	7.75	3.80	1.38	0.00129		1.53		0.399	0.546	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	[-]	29.4
Fullgrid	[-]	18.2	17.3	29.4	0.866	0.0600		-1.32		0.617	0.875	0.746
Sparsegrid	[-]	28.7	24.7	29.4	3.53	0.0600		-0.798		0.599	0.825	0.712

	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	[-]	174.
Fullgrid	[-]	645.	204.	174.	433.	0.572		1.09		0.488	0.663	0.576
Sparsegrid	[-]	798.	224.	174.	554.	0.572		1.06		0.482	0.660	0.571

	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	[-]	4.88
Fullgrid	[-]	4.20	1.94	4.87	2.09	0.00647		-1.63		0.617	0.803	0.710
Sparsegrid	[-]	5.16	2.50	4.87	2.59	0.00647		-1.67		0.555	0.822	0.688

	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	[-]	9.77
Fullgrid	[-]	12.7	11.6	9.73	0.563	0.0399		0.642		0.420	0.780	0.600
Sparsegrid	[-]	15.9	14.1	9.73	1.64	0.0399		0.787		0.405	0.685	0.545

	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	[-]	0.211
Fullgrid	[-]	14.1	0.0661	0.211	13.3			-1.03		0.585	0.919	0.752
Sparsegrid	[-]	24.4	0.0480	0.211	22.3			-1.43		0.490	0.498	0.494

	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	[-]	16.1
Fullgrid	[-]	22.3	20.8	16.1	1.27	0.0564		1.65		0.591	0.527	0.559
Sparsegrid	[-]	26.4	20.9	16.1	3.88	0.0564		1.27		0.589	0.606	0.597

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Benchmark	[-]	24.5
Fullgrid	[-]	43.0	42.1	24.3	0.778	0.200		4.05		0.368	0.646	0.507
Sparsegrid	[-]	47.7	46.0	24.3	1.68	0.200		4.05		0.374	0.655	0.515

	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	[-]	12.8
Fullgrid	[-]	5.58	5.43	12.7	0.402	0.0175		-1.78		0.528	0.832	0.680
Sparsegrid	[-]	6.48	6.15	12.7	1.50	0.0175		-1.91		0.492	0.791	0.641

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:

2010 regridded 30N-80N forest biomass

  Source:

Retrievals from synthetic aperture radar data using existing databases of wood density and allometric relationships between biomass compartments

  History:

Mon May 14 13:03:28 2018: ncrename -v biomass_total,biomass -v uncertainty_biomass_total,uncertainty_biomass biomass_0.5x0.5.nc Mon May 14 13:03:05 2018: ncks -a -v time,time_bounds,lat,lat_bounds,lon,lon_bounds,biomass_total,uncertainty_biomass_total MPI-BGI_biomass0.5x0.5.nc biomass_0.5x0.5.nc Mon May 14 16:47:36 2018: ncl < step3-CF_convert_all.ncl Tue Oct 01 16:29:33 2013: cdo -f nc4c -z zip merge biomass_total.nc uncertainty_biomass_total.nc ./temp/biomass_total.nc Tue Oct 01 16:27:31 2013: cdo -f nc4c -z zip merge biomass_stem.nc uncertainty_biomass_stem.nc ./temp/biomass_stem.nc Tue Oct 01 16:25:47 2013: cdo -f nc4c -z zip merge biomass_roots.nc uncertainty_biomass_roots.nc ./temp/biomass_roots.nc Tue Oct 01 16:24:16 2013: cdo -f nc4c -z zip merge biomass_foliage.nc uncertainty_biomass_foliage.nc ./temp/biomass_foliage.nc Tue Oct 01 16:21:04 2013: cdo -f nc4c -z zip merge biomass_branches.nc uncertainty_biomass_branches.nc ./temp/biomass_branches.nc Tue Oct 01 16:00:25 2013: cdo -f nc4c -z zip merge biomass_agb.nc uncertainty_biomass_agb.nc ./temp/biomass_agb.nc

  Conventions:

CF-1.4

  Inistitute:

Max Planck Institute

  Created_date:

2018-05-14T16:47:36Z

  Contact:

Cheng-En Yang (yangc@ornl.gov) or Dr. Forrest M. Hoffman (forrest@climatemodeling.org)

  Database:

MPI-BGI data portal (https://www.bgc-jena.mg.de/geodb/projects/Home.php)

  Reference:

Thurner, M., C. Beer, M. Santoro, N. Carvalhais, T. Wutzler, D. Schepaschenko, A. Shvidenko, E. Kompter, B. Ahrens, S. R. Levick, and C. Schmullius (2014). Carbon stock and density of boreal and temperate forests. Global Ecol. and Biogeo., 23: 297-310. doi:10.1111/geb.12125.

  Nco:

netCDF Operators version 4.7.4 (http://nco.sf.net)