Africa - Central Africa - Sahel Africa - South Asia - Indonesia Asia - South Central Asia and China Asia - Southeast Asia and India Australia Global - Land Middle East and Sahara North America - Central America North America - Eastern United States North America - Western United States South America - Amazon South America - Southeast South America - Southwest

	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	[-]	38.7
Fullgrid	[-]	50.6	47.3	38.7	0.766	0.000568		2.58		0.530	0.807	0.668
Sparsegrid	[-]	50.8	47.2	38.7	1.65	0.000568		1.79		0.512	0.829	0.670

	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	[-]	11.9
Fullgrid	[-]	4.12	5.61	11.9	0.0731	0.000887		-0.921		0.489	0.836	0.663
Sparsegrid	[-]	8.36	8.62	11.9	0.696	0.000887		-0.500		0.506	0.621	0.563

	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	[-]	24.6
Fullgrid	[-]	18.3	17.6	24.5	0.939	0.0133		-0.416		0.484	0.645	0.564
Sparsegrid	[-]	21.9	19.7	24.5	2.10	0.0133		-0.511		0.496	0.775	0.635

	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	[-]	36.8
Fullgrid	[-]	49.9	44.1	36.4	4.38	0.356		9.80		0.400	0.897	0.649
Sparsegrid	[-]	97.1	74.4	36.4	17.4	0.356		10.2		0.389	0.898	0.644

	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	[-]	38.4
Fullgrid	[-]	42.0	25.6	38.3	17.4	0.0457		-0.901		0.535	0.729	0.632
Sparsegrid	[-]	52.9	28.0	38.3	24.3	0.0457		-1.37		0.506	0.687	0.597

	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	[-]	43.7
Fullgrid	[-]	34.7	30.8	43.7	1.61	0.0383		-0.353		0.548	0.875	0.711
Sparsegrid	[-]	50.6	40.1	43.7	6.79	0.0383		-0.538		0.522	0.828	0.675

	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	[-]	13.7
Fullgrid	[-]	13.1	4.83	13.6	7.60	0.0402		-1.19		0.475	0.736	0.605
Sparsegrid	[-]	23.7	6.54	13.6	15.7	0.0402		-1.10		0.468	0.700	0.584

	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	[-]	349.
Fullgrid	[-]	645.	415.	348.	222.	0.825		1.97		0.481	0.680	0.581
Sparsegrid	[-]	800.	493.	348.	287.	0.825		2.02		0.464	0.657	0.560

	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	[-]	2.53
Fullgrid	[-]	4.21	0.451	2.53	3.58	5.07e-05		-0.891		0.477	0.0900	0.284
Sparsegrid	[-]	5.21	0.485	2.53	4.65	5.07e-05		-0.886		0.443	0.124	0.284

	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	[-]	11.1
Fullgrid	[-]	14.1	11.7	11.0	1.55	0.0920		2.34		0.472	0.728	0.600
Sparsegrid	[-]	24.5	17.5	11.0	4.87	0.0920		1.93		0.457	0.656	0.557

	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	[-]	1.55
Fullgrid	[-]	22.4	4.37	1.54	17.8	0.00901		4.89		0.283	0.494	0.389
Sparsegrid	[-]	26.6	5.51	1.54	19.5	0.00901		4.91		0.257	0.626	0.442

	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	[-]	0.219
Fullgrid	[-]	5.60	0.210	0.219	5.65			0.00315		0.572	0.333	0.453
Sparsegrid	[-]	6.51	0.431	0.219	7.25			0.668		0.482	0.656	0.569

	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	[-]	100.
Fullgrid	[-]	183.	180.	100.	1.17	0.0486		10.1		0.421	0.732	0.576
Sparsegrid	[-]	197.	192.	100.	3.12	0.0486		10.8		0.405	0.701	0.553

	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	[-]	18.4
Fullgrid	[-]	34.0	33.7	18.4	0.484	0.0435		2.61		0.446	0.573	0.510
Sparsegrid	[-]	41.6	39.7	18.4	1.52	0.0435		3.16		0.386	0.468	0.427

	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	[-]	7.28
Fullgrid	[-]	9.30	8.69	7.14	0.270	0.137		1.59		0.497	0.337	0.417
Sparsegrid	[-]	14.7	12.5	7.14	0.795	0.137		1.65		0.445	0.369	0.407

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:

Global Tropical Forest Biomass

  Institution:

NASA-JPL (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, USA)

  Source:

4079 in situ inventory plots, satellite light detection and ranging (LiDAR) samples of forest structure, and optical and microwave imagery (1-km resolution) to extrapolate estimates

  History:

2015-01-08-T06:37:41Z Converted from 1 km x 1 km to 0.5 degree x 0.5 degree by Mingquan Mu (mmu@uci.edu) on Fri Jan 9 10:37:41 PST 2015

  References:

Saatchi, S. S., N. L. Harris, S. Brown, M. Lefsky, E. T. A. Mitchard, W. Salas, B. R. Zutta, W. Buermann, S. L. Lewis, S. Hagen, S. Petrova, L. White, M. Silman, and A. Morel (2011), Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 108(24):9899-9904, doi:10.1073/pnas.1019576108.

  Conventions:

CF-1.6

  Institute_id:

NASA-JPL

  Creation_date:

2015-01-08-T06:37:41Z

  Product:

observations

  Data_structure:

grid

  Realm:

land

  Contact:

Prof. James T. Randerson (jranders@uci.edu) or Dr. Mingquan Mu (mmu@uci.edu)