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Bias [kg m-2]
Bias Score [1]
Spatial Distribution Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 349.
bcc-csm1-1 [-] 475. 324. 144. 349. 0.356 0.349 0.654 0.831 0.742
bcc-csm1-1-m [-] 384. 268. 116. 347. 1.74 -0.938 0.620 0.804 0.712
BNU-ESM [-] 917. 708. 191. 348. 0.529 6.45 0.457 0.515 0.486
CanESM2 [-] 529. 326. 190. 349. -0.340 0.552 0.818 0.685
CESM1-BGC [-] 530. 445. 82.5 347. 2.11 2.11 0.501 0.556 0.528
GFDL-ESM2G [-] 655. 403. 243. 349. 1.76 0.611 0.853 0.732
HadGEM2-CC [-] 439. 344. 93.3 347. 1.94 0.643 0.629 0.881 0.755
HadGEM2-ES [-] 453. 349. 102. 347. 1.94 0.726 0.633 0.883 0.758
inmcm4 [-] 603. 378. 227. 330. 18.6 0.716 0.654 0.895 0.774
IPSL-CM5A-LR [-] 622. 299. 312. 347. 1.45 0.341 0.598 0.772 0.685
IPSL-CM5A-MR [-] 632. 291. 335. 347. 2.26 0.0525 0.599 0.788 0.694
MeanCMIP5 [-] 454. 314. 141. 349. 0.724 0.681 0.930 0.805
MIROC-ESM [-] 350. 210. 137. 318. 30.5 -1.72 0.581 0.694 0.637
MIROC-ESM-CHEM [-] 351. 216. 130. 318. 30.5 -1.62 0.584 0.734 0.659
MPI-ESM-LR [-] 335. 250. 83.1 319. 30.2 -1.08 0.597 0.860 0.729
MRI-ESM1 [-] 587. 413. 173. 349. 1.49 0.559 0.717 0.638
NorESM1-M [-] 537. 431. 98.6 349. 2.13 0.481 0.525 0.503
NorESM1-ME [-] 548. 440. 99.8 349. 2.30 0.477 0.508 0.493
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Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]
Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]
Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]
Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]
Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]
Bias [kg m-2]
Bias Score [1]
Spatial Distribution Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 100.
bcc-csm1-1 [-] 71.7 68.0 0.415 100. 0.0375 -3.43 0.675 0.830 0.752
bcc-csm1-1-m [-] 55.6 55.4 0.124 100. 0.132 -5.14 0.618 0.774 0.696
BNU-ESM [-] 151. 143. 0.651 100. 0.0632 5.62 0.634 0.675 0.654
CanESM2 [-] 41.7 37.3 0.310 100. -7.35 0.519 0.796 0.658
CESM1-BGC [-] 151. 150. 0.210 100. 0.0690 6.15 0.504 0.526 0.515
GFDL-ESM2G [-] 73.9 74.9 0.482 100. -2.60 0.694 0.898 0.796
HadGEM2-CC [-] 122. 121. 0.358 100. 0.0350 2.86 0.740 0.966 0.853
HadGEM2-ES [-] 122. 122. 0.354 100. 0.0350 2.96 0.745 0.964 0.855
inmcm4 [-] 88.0 87.6 0.753 99.3 0.905 -1.41 0.762 0.788 0.775
IPSL-CM5A-LR [-] 88.9 87.5 0.590 100. 0.0315 -1.02 0.681 0.865 0.773
IPSL-CM5A-MR [-] 81.8 80.6 0.498 100. 0.0750 -1.85 0.655 0.823 0.739
MeanCMIP5 [-] 84.3 83.9 0.356 100. -0.358 0.761 0.941 0.851
MIROC-ESM [-] 50.8 48.6 0.313 99.2 1.00 -6.10 0.587 0.780 0.684
MIROC-ESM-CHEM [-] 57.2 54.7 0.453 99.2 1.00 -5.35 0.606 0.880 0.743
MPI-ESM-LR [-] 56.5 55.2 0.139 98.2 1.93 -5.33 0.592 0.893 0.743
MRI-ESM1 [-] 140. 140. 0.437 100. 4.91 0.693 0.952 0.823
NorESM1-M [-] 139. 137. 0.759 100. 4.77 0.504 0.518 0.511
NorESM1-ME [-] 141. 140. 0.786 100. 5.04 0.505 0.512 0.509

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Data Information

  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)