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Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 108.
Fullgrid [-] 118. 119. 108. 112. 69.6 9.73 26.0 3.13 0.418 0.208 0.494 0.997 0.465
Sparsegrid [-] 120. 119. 108. 121. 62.9 11.5 27.4 2.92 0.412 0.210 0.526 0.989 0.470
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Benchmark [-] 98.2
Fullgrid [-] 103. 103. 98.5 109. 4.69 26.9 2.24 0.424 0.193 0.648 0.982 0.488
Sparsegrid [-] 104. 104. 98.2 105. 5.70 28.6 1.89 0.355 0.203 0.708 0.980 0.490
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Benchmark [-] 105.
Fullgrid [-] 107. 105. 105. 119. 81.7 0.763 17.1 1.79 0.466 0.514 0.738 0.988 0.644
Sparsegrid [-] 110. 109. 105. 116. 83.2 3.17 20.6 1.85 0.477 0.402 0.723 0.966 0.594
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Benchmark [-] 19.3
Fullgrid [-] 28.0 28.9 20.1 24.4 8.79 19.7 0.271 0.505 0.296 0.982 0.972 0.610
Sparsegrid [-] 26.3 27.8 19.3 23.8 8.63 21.4 0.725 0.492 0.260 0.950 0.946 0.582
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Bias [W m-2]
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Bias Score [1]
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Benchmark [-] 112.
Fullgrid [-] 148. 146. 112. 148. 124. 34.4 38.7 3.11 0.117 0.551 0.491 0.871 0.516
Sparsegrid [-] 148. 146. 112. 148. 124. 34.3 40.1 3.04 0.0931 0.445 0.498 0.760 0.448
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Bias Score [1]
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Benchmark [-] 37.1
Fullgrid [-] 45.4 45.4 37.0 44.1 27.6 8.46 19.8 0.393 0.428 0.307 0.972 0.859 0.575
Sparsegrid [-] 45.7 45.5 37.1 48.7 27.6 8.42 21.3 0.472 0.404 0.254 0.966 0.818 0.539
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Bias [W m-2]
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Bias Score [1]
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Benchmark [-] 54.4
Fullgrid [-] 64.0 63.1 54.8 75.4 63.0 8.58 20.7 0.757 0.311 0.382 0.930 0.986 0.598
Sparsegrid [-] 65.3 63.5 54.4 77.9 64.7 9.15 22.6 0.863 0.298 0.321 0.917 0.985 0.568
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Bias Score [1]
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Benchmark [-] 89.2
Fullgrid [-] 102. 98.5 90.0 120. 9.78 21.9 1.64 0.435 0.338 0.768 0.930 0.562
Sparsegrid [-] 108. 99.6 89.2 129. 10.4 27.6 2.28 0.430 0.255 0.637 0.962 0.508
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Benchmark [-] 18.7
Fullgrid [-] 20.5 22.6 18.4 15.0 4.01 17.9 0.442 0.676 0.317 0.970 0.931 0.642
Sparsegrid [-] 21.1 24.0 18.7 16.3 5.18 19.8 0.480 0.601 0.270 0.967 0.857 0.593
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Benchmark [-] 93.1
Fullgrid [-] 102. 101. 91.7 112. 91.2 9.66 15.0 0.685 0.516 0.608 0.944 0.998 0.735
Sparsegrid [-] 98.1 95.7 93.1 105. 88.8 2.58 19.5 0.864 0.575 0.479 0.901 0.991 0.685
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Bias [W m-2]
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Bias Score [1]
RMSE Score [1]
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Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 44.0
Fullgrid [-] 63.9 65.8 44.4 59.3 21.4 28.9 0.391 0.0289 0.177 0.973 0.981 0.467
Sparsegrid [-] 62.2 63.2 44.0 60.6 19.1 28.5 0.470 0.130 0.159 0.963 0.970 0.477
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Benchmark [-] 72.2
Fullgrid [-] 67.9 77.6 72.3 31.4 82.3 6.07 20.6 1.10 0.408 0.402 0.858 0.989 0.612
Sparsegrid [-] 78.6 77.9 72.2 78.8 80.7 5.79 25.1 1.32 0.378 0.323 0.820 0.986 0.566
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Bias [W m-2]
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Bias Score [1]
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Benchmark [-] 57.7
Fullgrid [-] 53.4 51.4 57.6 73.1 -5.13 17.9 1.03 0.394 0.609 0.873 0.789 0.655
Sparsegrid [-] 52.8 49.1 57.7 74.6 -8.37 23.1 1.04 0.318 0.534 0.879 0.725 0.598
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Bias Score [1]
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Benchmark [-] 23.2
Fullgrid [-] 27.8 31.3 23.5 20.6 34.0 7.36 23.3 0.186 0.493 0.179 0.987 0.826 0.533
Sparsegrid [-] 25.8 30.7 23.2 19.5 33.5 7.55 24.6 0.342 0.497 0.165 0.976 0.824 0.526
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Bias Score [1]
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Benchmark [-] 97.5
Fullgrid [-] 111. 104. 98.2 125. 90.9 8.84 24.9 1.60 0.414 0.371 0.773 0.579 0.502
Sparsegrid [-] 120. 114. 97.5 124. 89.2 17.3 50.5 3.83 0.304 0.125 0.356 0.643 0.311
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Bias Score [1]
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Benchmark [-] 74.7
Fullgrid [-] 85.9 85.5 75.4 87.6 10.7 18.8 0.505 0.319 0.346 0.966 0.999 0.595
Sparsegrid [-] 87.1 84.3 74.7 94.7 9.57 23.5 0.872 0.385 0.204 0.911 0.987 0.538
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Model Period Mean (complement) [W m-2]
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Bias Score [1]
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Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 43.9
Fullgrid [-] 60.0 59.3 44.3 62.5 15.1 24.7 0.292 0.185 0.196 0.980 0.982 0.508
Sparsegrid [-] 59.8 59.4 43.9 60.1 15.5 26.2 0.384 0.230 0.179 0.974 0.895 0.492
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Benchmark [-] 66.3
Fullgrid [-] 67.3 67.2 66.6 72.3 74.8 0.755 14.3 0.490 0.580 0.514 0.966 0.980 0.711
Sparsegrid [-] 73.0 72.9 66.3 79.6 75.3 6.56 31.3 1.49 0.473 0.303 0.771 0.838 0.538
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Bias Score [1]
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Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 116.
Fullgrid [-] 121. 121. 116. 129. 113. 5.11 21.1 1.60 0.452 0.447 0.771 0.845 0.592
Sparsegrid [-] 121. 120. 116. 126. 110. 4.27 27.9 1.81 0.301 0.354 0.736 0.771 0.503
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Bias Score [1]
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Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 112.
Fullgrid [-] 110. 110. 111. 110. -1.15 15.3 1.37 0.591 0.502 0.822 0.996 0.683
Sparsegrid [-] 110. 109. 112. 114. -2.16 22.4 2.23 0.532 0.343 0.653 0.976 0.569
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Bias Score [1]
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Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 80.6
Fullgrid [-] 86.2 84.6 80.4 87.8 64.5 5.15 24.3 0.874 0.368 0.377 0.904 0.966 0.598
Sparsegrid [-] 86.2 86.7 80.6 83.5 59.7 6.12 40.4 1.62 0.271 0.266 0.759 0.974 0.507

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Data Information

  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