Africa - Sahel Africa - South Asia - East Siberia Asia - South Central Asia and China Australia Europe Global - Land Middle East and Sahara North America - Alaska and Northern Canada North America - Eastern United States North America - Southern Canada North America - Western United States South America - Amazon South America - Southeast

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	199.
I123	[-]	214.		15.1	27.9	1.02		0.577	0.434	0.933	0.594
post5.4	[-]	212.		13.0	29.6	1.02		0.623	0.383	0.933	0.580

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	242.
I123	[-]	246.		3.89	17.8	0.00		0.946	0.783	1.00	0.878
post5.4	[-]	246.		4.52	18.1	0.00		0.938	0.789	1.00	0.879

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	105.
I123	[-]	95.4		-9.84	21.4	1.02		0.887	0.725	0.933	0.817
post5.4	[-]	94.9		-10.3	18.3	1.02		0.882	0.742	0.933	0.825

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	153.
I123	[-]	174.		19.8	32.1	1.36		0.687	0.645	0.809	0.697
post5.4	[-]	167.		12.1	18.9	1.36		0.795	0.757	0.809	0.779

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	222.
I123	[-]	234.		12.1	33.3	0.258		0.766	0.552	0.983	0.713
post5.4	[-]	234.		12.4	30.8	0.517		0.754	0.583	0.965	0.721

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	135.
I123	[-]	151.		16.0	30.6	0.381		0.825	0.727	0.975	0.813
post5.4	[-]	150.		15.4	24.3	0.381		0.830	0.799	0.975	0.851

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	177.
I123	[-]	178.		2.37	31.5	0.721		0.805	0.666	0.927	0.766
post5.4	[-]	177.		0.959	27.2	0.672		0.808	0.715	0.935	0.793

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	249.
I123	[-]	253.		0.545	17.3	0.508		0.875	0.797	0.966	0.859
post5.4	[-]	250.		-1.56	15.0	0.508		0.891	0.821	0.966	0.875

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	151.
I123	[-]	91.1		-60.2	22.2	0.508		0.494	0.440	0.966	0.585
post5.4	[-]	91.1		-60.2	21.3	0.508		0.495	0.450	0.966	0.590

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	187.
I123	[-]	180.		-7.31	32.8	0.726		0.859	0.701	0.952	0.803
post5.4	[-]	180.		-6.86	29.5	0.436		0.840	0.742	0.971	0.824

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	162.
I123	[-]	158.		-3.49	22.3	1.02		0.958	0.759	0.933	0.852
post5.4	[-]	155.		-7.02	20.3	1.02		0.916	0.785	0.933	0.855

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	193.
I123	[-]	190.		-2.84	21.3	0.254		0.907	0.777	0.983	0.861
post5.4	[-]	190.		-3.38	19.2	0.254		0.911	0.803	0.983	0.875

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	195.
I123	[-]	205.		9.53	18.9	2.05		0.501	0.352	0.745	0.488
post5.4	[-]	186.		-9.11	7.88	2.05		0.516	0.392	0.745	0.511

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]		Bias [Watt m-2]	RMSE [Watt m-2]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	208.
I123	[-]	207.		-1.29	25.8	1.78		0.836	0.564	0.732	0.674
post5.4	[-]	206.		-1.94	18.7	1.53		0.803	0.661	0.794	0.730

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 Temporally integrated period mean max month Temporally integrated mean phase shift Temporally integrated mean phase shift 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:

derived WRMC BSRN

  Source_file:

This product is generated from monthly WRMC.BSRN observations

  Conventions:

Please contact Prof. James Randerson (Email: jranders@uci.edu) or Dr. Mingquan Mu (mmu@uci.edu) for any question

  Altitude:

BSRN

  Site_name:

ASP,BAR,BER,BIL,BON,BOS,BOU,BRB,CAB,CAM,CAR,CLH,CNR,COC,DAA,DAR,DOM,DRA,DWN,E13,EUR,FLO,FPE,FUA,GCR,GVN,ILO,ISH,IZA,KWA,LAU,LER,LIN,MAN,MNM,NAU,NYA,PAL,PAY,PSU,PTR,REG,RLM,SAP,SBO,SMS,SOV,SPO,SXF,SYO,TAM,TAT,TIK,TOR,XIA

  Creation_date:

Sun Jun 22 23:48:40 PDT 2014

  Approach:

First I used BSRN Toolbox to extract swdn (surface downward shortwave radiation) from raw data files, and saved the data in ascii format, then I organized all site data together for each month and year and saved them in a netcdf file.

  Temporal resolution:

monthly

  General information:

This product was derived from WRMC-BSRN radiation dataset.

  Spatial resolution:

site observations

  Derived data code:

http://redwood.ess.uci.edu/mingquan/www/ILAMB/Download/CODES/CODES/subroutines/convert/convert-WRMC.BSRN.ncl