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	[-]	-48.2
Fullgrid	[-]	-62.5	-63.4	-48.1		-49.5		-15.2	17.1	2.38		0.270	0.686	0.608	0.956	0.641
Sparsegrid	[-]	-67.1	-67.4	-48.2		-49.4		-19.4	22.2	3.14		0.187	0.550	0.484	0.968	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	[-]	-74.1
Fullgrid	[-]	-94.9	-94.1	-74.7		-49.0		-19.3	24.9	0.420		0.182	0.370	0.947	0.925	0.559
Sparsegrid	[-]	-96.5	-96.1	-74.2		-48.3		-21.9	30.5	1.81		0.159	0.241	0.706	0.974	0.464

	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	[-]	-73.7
Fullgrid	[-]	-86.3	-86.0	-73.2		-60.1		-11.1	18.6	1.75		0.317	0.500	0.741	0.939	0.599
Sparsegrid	[-]	-84.9	-85.2	-74.1		-60.9		-11.1	22.6	1.81		0.255	0.420	0.747	0.927	0.554

	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
Fullgrid	[-]	-42.2	-42.3	-43.8		-44.5		1.10	10.8	1.87		0.627	0.425	0.733	0.933	0.629
Sparsegrid	[-]	-44.3	-44.4	-43.2		-43.8		-1.28	12.2	1.79		0.584	0.368	0.753	0.991	0.613

	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	[-]	-42.1
Fullgrid	[-]	-42.6	-42.3	-41.5		-47.3		-2.54	9.15	1.96		0.500	0.828	0.714	0.964	0.767
Sparsegrid	[-]	-47.2	-46.7	-41.5		-47.7		-5.36	12.3	2.72		0.381	0.690	0.562	0.926	0.650

	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	[-]	-46.6
Fullgrid	[-]	-52.3	-52.1	-47.3		-49.9		-4.88	11.1	1.40		0.500	0.449	0.825	0.965	0.638
Sparsegrid	[-]	-51.5	-51.1	-46.5		-48.6		-4.52	13.0	2.01		0.469	0.383	0.722	0.976	0.587

	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	[-]	-65.7
Fullgrid	[-]	-77.0	-77.0	-66.9		-57.5		-8.95	14.1	0.938		0.403	0.547	0.888	0.993	0.675
Sparsegrid	[-]	-74.3	-74.5	-65.8		-57.3		-8.69	16.9	1.40		0.357	0.445	0.813	0.993	0.611

	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	[-]	-59.3
Fullgrid	[-]	-76.3	-77.2	-59.8		-53.2		-13.5	19.4	1.10		0.314	0.430	0.850	0.944	0.594
Sparsegrid	[-]	-73.6	-74.3	-59.5		-52.6		-14.8	24.2	2.20		0.245	0.334	0.659	0.982	0.511

	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	[-]	-40.0
Fullgrid	[-]	-41.3	-41.5	-40.4		-42.2		-0.759	10.3	2.07		0.690	0.450	0.708	0.903	0.640
Sparsegrid	[-]	-42.2	-42.6	-40.0		-41.0		-2.66	11.2	2.09		0.626	0.396	0.694	0.957	0.614

	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	[-]	-85.4
Fullgrid	[-]	-96.6	-96.8	-89.0		-65.5		-4.37	10.5	0.997		0.598	0.715	0.855	0.968	0.770
Sparsegrid	[-]	-96.2	-96.6	-86.3		-65.0		-10.4	17.5	1.32		0.380	0.557	0.787	0.993	0.655

	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	[-]	-53.4
Fullgrid	[-]	-58.1	-58.2	-53.4		-51.9		-6.34	13.7	1.63		0.401	0.502	0.773	0.995	0.635
Sparsegrid	[-]	-61.0	-61.2	-53.4		-52.7		-7.78	16.2	1.80		0.350	0.415	0.738	0.971	0.578

	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	[-]	-60.4
Fullgrid	[-]	-70.6	-70.7	-61.1		-52.5		-8.49	14.4	1.51		0.413	0.564	0.782	0.989	0.663
Sparsegrid	[-]	-72.5	-72.7	-63.2		-37.2		-9.55	18.4	1.90		0.345	0.459	0.711	0.986	0.592

	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	[-]	-104.
Fullgrid	[-]	-112.	-112.	-103.		-74.0		-7.87	14.9	1.05		0.529	0.619	0.840	0.986	0.718
Sparsegrid	[-]	-111.	-111.	-104.		-74.0		-7.46	18.7	1.17		0.458	0.515	0.826	0.989	0.661

	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	[-]	-40.3
Fullgrid	[-]	-44.3	-44.2	-41.2		-42.3		-3.22	10.6	2.03		0.503	0.510	0.693	0.993	0.642
Sparsegrid	[-]	-44.0	-44.0	-40.2		-41.8		-3.82	12.2	2.01		0.467	0.427	0.707	0.994	0.604

	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	[-]	-65.1
Fullgrid	[-]	-81.4	-82.1	-66.2		-51.3		-10.6	17.3	2.19		0.394	0.506	0.631	0.985	0.604
Sparsegrid	[-]	-76.0	-76.7	-66.0		-50.7		-10.8	24.1	3.05		0.294	0.313	0.491	0.978	0.478

	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	[-]	-49.7
Fullgrid	[-]	-59.7	-59.9	-50.3		-60.4		-9.63	12.9	2.72		0.250	0.614	0.523	0.897	0.580
Sparsegrid	[-]	-60.8	-61.3	-49.5		-59.9		-11.8	15.6	3.04		0.174	0.534	0.481	0.982	0.541

	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	[-]	-45.2
Fullgrid	[-]	-53.1	-53.1	-45.2		-46.5		-7.67	11.8	1.56		0.303	0.565	0.804	0.982	0.644
Sparsegrid	[-]	-53.2	-53.2	-45.2		-47.1		-8.06	13.0	1.29		0.316	0.527	0.834	0.912	0.623

	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	[-]	-79.5
Fullgrid	[-]	-85.3	-85.5	-78.6		-64.6		-5.91	12.9	0.860		0.474	0.571	0.913	0.987	0.703
Sparsegrid	[-]	-85.5	-85.2	-79.6		-63.4		-5.53	21.4	1.61		0.377	0.366	0.763	0.991	0.572

	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	[-]	-32.2
Fullgrid	[-]	-45.1	-45.2	-32.3		-45.4		-13.2	14.9	2.08		0.262	0.771	0.675	0.966	0.689
Sparsegrid	[-]	-47.0	-47.3	-32.0		-44.9		-15.2	18.3	3.18		0.199	0.650	0.474	0.967	0.588

	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	[-]	-54.3
Fullgrid	[-]	-65.1	-65.5	-54.8		-56.1		-10.3	13.9	1.82		0.419	0.661	0.737	0.962	0.688
Sparsegrid	[-]	-67.8	-67.9	-54.3		-55.7		-13.6	19.1	1.76		0.310	0.542	0.737	0.810	0.588

	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	[-]	-76.8
Fullgrid	[-]	-92.3	-92.2	-79.5		-46.7		-8.33	21.8	1.35		0.241	0.581	0.812	0.945	0.632
Sparsegrid	[-]	-84.6	-84.0	-78.2		-45.8		-5.79	29.1	2.15		0.189	0.412	0.659	0.949	0.524

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-rlns-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