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) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	3.19
Fullgrid	[-]	3.70	3.62	3.28	3.98	0.0846		0.380	1.11	1.08		0.571	0.576	0.849	0.989	0.712
Sparsegrid	[-]	3.66	3.60	3.19	3.76	0.0935		0.398	2.35	1.94		0.505	0.266	0.707	0.974	0.544

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	2.19
Fullgrid	[-]	2.40	2.40	2.20	2.67			0.200	0.799	0.306		0.571	0.544	0.972	0.991	0.725
Sparsegrid	[-]	2.30	2.25	2.19	3.25			0.0599	2.05	1.68		0.533	0.291	0.735	0.982	0.566

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	2.00
Fullgrid	[-]	2.35	2.33	2.14	2.74	0.327		0.183	0.796	0.814		0.664	0.632	0.898	0.991	0.763
Sparsegrid	[-]	2.25	2.23	2.00	2.40	0.271		0.231	1.41	1.43		0.543	0.425	0.809	0.978	0.636

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.948
Fullgrid	[-]	0.984	0.972	0.973	1.04			0.0111	0.300	0.574		0.726	0.636	0.940	0.991	0.786
Sparsegrid	[-]	0.954	0.920	0.948	1.05			-0.0226	0.504	1.12		0.601	0.411	0.871	0.976	0.654

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	6.50
Fullgrid	[-]	7.88	8.47	6.71	7.20	6.32		1.63	2.45	1.53		0.416	0.656	0.766	0.962	0.691
Sparsegrid	[-]	7.58	8.21	6.50	7.33	6.34		1.71	3.99	2.61		0.390	0.307	0.585	0.981	0.514

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.33
Fullgrid	[-]	1.48	1.48	1.38	1.66	0.863		0.0976	0.332	0.591		0.734	0.684	0.941	0.995	0.807
Sparsegrid	[-]	1.43	1.42	1.33	1.72	0.863		0.0866	0.526	0.975		0.653	0.473	0.890	0.990	0.696

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.31
Fullgrid	[-]	1.39	1.34	1.28	2.04	3.94		0.0905	0.358	0.497		0.723	0.745	0.940	0.988	0.828
Sparsegrid	[-]	1.53	1.38	1.31	2.52	4.36		0.0682	0.695	1.15		0.604	0.520	0.848	0.979	0.694

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	3.12
Fullgrid	[-]	3.62	3.17	3.14	5.65			0.156	1.48	0.783		0.591	0.523	0.910	0.960	0.701
Sparsegrid	[-]	3.99	3.25	3.12	5.62			0.121	2.52	1.65		0.506	0.312	0.755	0.907	0.558

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.10
Fullgrid	[-]	1.12	1.15	1.13	1.01			0.0206	0.394	1.35		0.732	0.516	0.802	0.987	0.710
Sparsegrid	[-]	1.02	1.06	1.10	0.978			-0.0399	0.500	1.34		0.595	0.426	0.823	0.957	0.645

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.11
Fullgrid	[-]	1.36	1.19	1.14	2.51	0.576		0.104	0.410	0.851		0.692	0.693	0.886	0.975	0.788
Sparsegrid	[-]	1.55	1.17	1.11	2.73	0.616		0.0623	0.857	2.16		0.574	0.396	0.665	0.957	0.597

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.94
Fullgrid	[-]	2.11	2.06	2.00	2.32			0.0686	0.451	0.851		0.658	0.726	0.882	0.982	0.795
Sparsegrid	[-]	2.08	1.96	1.94	2.27			0.0291	0.774	1.63		0.566	0.471	0.757	0.947	0.642

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.99
Fullgrid	[-]	2.04	2.12	2.02	1.70	3.18		0.140	0.657	0.810		0.671	0.674	0.893	0.980	0.778
Sparsegrid	[-]	2.31	2.11	1.99	2.88	3.25		0.125	1.29	1.64		0.575	0.439	0.759	0.966	0.636

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.287
Fullgrid	[-]	0.397	0.362	0.278	0.741			0.0965	0.225	1.16		0.751	0.802	0.830	0.944	0.826
Sparsegrid	[-]	0.405	0.370	0.287	0.603			0.0839	0.340	1.85		0.716	0.688	0.714	0.899	0.741

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.16
Fullgrid	[-]	1.07	1.14	1.12	0.909	1.85		0.0292	0.358	0.693		0.680	0.657	0.924	0.969	0.777
Sparsegrid	[-]	1.06	1.11	1.16	1.01	1.84		-0.0425	0.541	1.18		0.595	0.453	0.847	0.954	0.660

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	2.71
Fullgrid	[-]	2.94	2.60	2.69	3.73	5.28		0.0576	1.03	0.810		0.564	0.592	0.892	0.979	0.724
Sparsegrid	[-]	3.28	2.67	2.71	3.88	5.65		-0.0314	2.73	3.73		0.467	0.145	0.352	0.969	0.415

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	2.96
Fullgrid	[-]	2.97	2.93	2.95	2.98			0.000813	0.366	1.06		0.777	0.777	0.842	0.998	0.834
Sparsegrid	[-]	2.97	2.80	2.96	3.38			-0.156	1.04	1.93		0.475	0.400	0.682	0.977	0.587

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.89
Fullgrid	[-]	2.14	1.96	1.88	2.85			0.117	0.475	0.873		0.670	0.681	0.881	0.978	0.778
Sparsegrid	[-]	2.25	1.92	1.89	3.25			0.0273	0.737	1.11		0.537	0.477	0.856	0.968	0.663

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.21
Fullgrid	[-]	1.18	1.17	1.16	1.68	0.934		0.0337	0.362	0.946		0.697	0.744	0.860	0.977	0.805
Sparsegrid	[-]	1.24	1.22	1.21	2.87	1.25		0.00924	0.783	2.24		0.598	0.420	0.642	0.964	0.609

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	6.16
Fullgrid	[-]	6.45	6.43	6.37	6.01	4.52		0.0893	1.84	0.831		0.547	0.542	0.898	0.987	0.703
Sparsegrid	[-]	6.54	6.54	6.16	5.98	4.63		0.374	4.05	1.93		0.424	0.233	0.714	0.978	0.517

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	3.00
Fullgrid	[-]	3.23	3.24	3.00	3.25			0.241	0.751	0.649		0.708	0.732	0.921	0.976	0.814
Sparsegrid	[-]	3.07	3.06	3.00	3.13			0.0652	1.59	1.43		0.600	0.448	0.799	0.945	0.648

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.18
Fullgrid	[-]	1.44	1.37	1.18	1.66	4.62		0.246	0.846	1.19		0.475	0.553	0.827	0.819	0.645
Sparsegrid	[-]	1.66	1.60	1.18	1.67	4.58		0.423	1.44	2.54		0.452	0.329	0.593	0.829	0.506

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:

Conserving Land-Atmosphere Synthesis Suite (CLASS) v1.1

  Version:

1.1

  Institution:

University of New South Wales

  Source:

Ground Heat Flux (GLDAS, MERRALND, MERRAFLX, NCEP_DOII, NCEP_NCAR), Sensible Heat Flux(GLDAS, MERRALND, MERRAFLX, NCEP_DOII, NCEP_NCAR, MPIBGC, Princeton), Latent Heat Flux(DOLCE1.0), Net Radiation (GLDAS, MERRALND, NCEP_DOII, NCEP_NCAR, ERAI, EBAF4.0), Precipitation(REGEN1.1), Runoff(LORA1.0), Change in Water storage(GRACE(GFZ, JPL, CSR))

  History:

2020-01-30: downloaded source from [http://dapds00.nci.org.au/thredds/fileServer/ks32/ARCCSS_Data/CLASS/v1-1/CLASS_v1-1_2003.nc,http://dapds00.nci.org.au/thredds/fileServer/ks32/ARCCSS_Data/CLASS/v1-1/CLASS_v1-1_2004.nc,http://dapds00.nci.org.au/thredds/fileServer/ks32/ARCCSS_Data/CLASS/v1-1/CLASS_v1-1_2005.nc,http://dapds00.nci.org.au/thredds/fileServer/ks32/ARCCSS_Data/CLASS/v1-1/CLASS_v1-1_2006.nc,http://dapds00.nci.org.au/thredds/fileServer/ks32/ARCCSS_Data/CLASS/v1-1/CLASS_v1-1_2007.nc,http://dapds00.nci.org.au/thredds/fileServer/ks32/ARCCSS_Data/CLASS/v1-1/CLASS_v1-1_2008.nc,http://dapds00.nci.org.au/thredds/fileServer/ks32/ARCCSS_Data/CLASS/v1-1/CLASS_v1-1_2009.nc] 2020-01-30: converted to ILAMB netCDF4 with https://github.com/rubisco-sfa/ILAMB-Data/blob/master/CLASS/CLASS_to_ILAMB.py

  References:

Sanaa Hobeichi (2019), Conserving Land-Atmosphere Synthesis Suite (CLASS) v1.1, doi:10.25914/5c872258dc183

Hobeichi, Sanaa and Abramowitz, Gab and Evans, Jason (2020), Conserving Land–Atmosphere Synthesis Suite (CLASS), Journal of Climate, 5, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0036.1