Boreal forest Global - Land Subtropical desert Temperate grassland/desert Temperate rain forest Temperate seasonal forest Tropical rain forest Tropical seasonal forest/savanna Tundra Woodland/shrubland

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	277.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	275.	276.	277.				-1.16	3.20	0.143		0.841	0.826	0.988	0.891	0.874
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	274.	274.	277.				-2.80	3.95	0.140		0.761	0.833	0.990	0.915	0.866
CanESM5	[-]	276.	276.	277.				-0.787	2.88	0.158		0.852	0.838	0.989	0.869	0.877
CESM2	[-]	276.	276.	277.		276.		-0.274	2.98	0.221		0.884	0.812	0.985	0.921	0.883
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	274.	274.	277.				-2.15	3.28	0.0972		0.810	0.856	0.993	0.991	0.901
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	274.	274.	277.				-2.01	3.45	0.163		0.810	0.837	0.989	0.931	0.881
MeanCMIP6	[-]	274.	275.	277.				-2.33	3.10	0.0908		0.814	0.875	0.994	0.632	0.838
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	276.	276.	277.				-0.491	3.79	0.0929		0.786	0.828	0.993	0.757	0.838
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	275.	275.	277.				-1.32	2.79	0.149		0.841	0.857	0.990	0.955	0.900
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	274.	274.	277.				-3.11	4.03	0.116		0.749	0.843	0.992	0.899	0.865

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	292.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	287.	291.	292.	252.			-1.09	3.05	0.524		0.664	0.690	0.940	1.00	0.797
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	287.	292.	292.	251.			-0.834	2.95	0.547		0.685	0.700	0.936	0.996	0.804
CanESM5	[-]	287.	292.	292.	253.			-0.465	3.28	0.660		0.648	0.659	0.920	0.998	0.777
CESM2	[-]	287.	292.	292.	248.	295.		-0.567	2.51	0.540		0.711	0.730	0.945	1.00	0.823
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	286.	290.	292.	265.			-2.22	3.26	0.477		0.595	0.716	0.949	0.999	0.795
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	285.	289.	292.	249.			-2.96	3.98	0.623		0.527	0.736	0.930	0.996	0.785
MeanCMIP6	[-]	286.	291.	292.	250.			-1.89	2.88	0.411		0.678	0.768	0.955	0.998	0.833
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	289.	292.	292.	263.			-0.122	3.40	0.526		0.611	0.717	0.939	1.00	0.796
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	287.	291.	292.	243.			-1.26	2.77	0.513		0.661	0.724	0.946	1.00	0.811
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	286.	291.	292.	249.			-1.81	3.15	0.534		0.632	0.718	0.939	0.991	0.800

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	304.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	302.	302.	304.				-2.54	3.43	0.561		0.595	0.725	0.942	0.991	0.796
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	304.	304.	304.				-0.266	2.45	0.553		0.735	0.718	0.951	0.951	0.815
CanESM5	[-]	305.	306.	304.				1.04	3.35	0.755		0.659	0.639	0.915	0.933	0.757
CESM2	[-]	303.	303.	304.		301.		-1.42	2.62	0.431		0.665	0.762	0.958	0.998	0.829
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	302.	302.	304.				-2.36	3.17	0.619		0.590	0.740	0.946	1.00	0.803
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	300.	300.	304.				-4.00	4.39	0.682		0.461	0.742	0.936	0.999	0.776
MeanCMIP6	[-]	303.	303.	304.				-1.72	2.86	0.479		0.718	0.772	0.957	0.704	0.785
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	306.	306.	304.				1.46	3.09	0.615		0.628	0.735	0.938	0.942	0.795
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	303.	303.	304.				-1.06	2.33	0.498		0.717	0.748	0.952	0.997	0.832
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	303.	304.	304.				-0.880	2.46	0.501		0.693	0.756	0.955	0.972	0.826

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	290.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	288.	287.	290.				-2.03	3.57	0.142		0.753	0.828	0.986	0.995	0.878
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	287.	288.	290.				-1.88	3.60	0.147		0.746	0.812	0.986	0.975	0.866
CanESM5	[-]	288.	288.	290.				-1.00	4.59	0.235		0.717	0.747	0.981	0.918	0.822
CESM2	[-]	289.	289.	290.		293.		-0.465	2.37	0.171		0.802	0.869	0.983	0.999	0.904
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	288.	288.	290.				-1.56	2.82	0.194		0.779	0.850	0.984	0.996	0.891
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	285.	285.	290.				-4.02	4.84	0.323		0.646	0.825	0.975	0.947	0.844
MeanCMIP6	[-]	288.	288.	290.				-1.57	2.96	0.136		0.772	0.858	0.988	0.965	0.888
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	290.	290.	290.				0.793	4.27	0.137		0.714	0.806	0.987	0.913	0.845
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	289.	289.	290.				-0.202	2.63	0.167		0.792	0.846	0.983	0.999	0.893
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	288.	288.	290.				-0.990	3.10	0.175		0.761	0.842	0.985	0.994	0.885

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	286.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	285.	288.	286.				0.545	3.45	0.611		0.573	0.673	0.938	0.916	0.755
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	287.	288.	286.				-0.0965	4.09	0.916		0.486	0.614	0.878	0.825	0.683
CanESM5	[-]	285.	289.	286.				0.533	3.88	0.839		0.548	0.588	0.899	0.882	0.701
CESM2	[-]	288.	289.	287.		285.		1.01	2.66	0.969		0.572	0.688	0.864	0.959	0.754
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	285.	285.	286.				-1.12	2.80	0.850		0.556	0.706	0.893	0.967	0.766
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	283.	285.	286.				-1.44	3.27	0.778		0.556	0.689	0.900	0.954	0.757
MeanCMIP6	[-]	286.	285.	286.				-5.69	7.85	0.771		0.461	0.733	0.902	0.374	0.641
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	286.	288.	286.				1.39	3.16	0.827		0.581	0.714	0.910	0.980	0.780
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	285.	285.	286.				-1.01	2.90	0.930		0.540	0.706	0.882	0.932	0.753
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	287.	288.	286.				-0.399	3.38	0.915		0.529	0.672	0.871	0.885	0.726

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	287.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	286.	286.	287.				-0.565	2.47	0.296		0.808	0.811	0.976	0.998	0.881
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	286.	286.	287.				-1.17	3.09	0.292		0.770	0.769	0.972	0.959	0.848
CanESM5	[-]	286.	286.	287.				-0.835	2.47	0.395		0.791	0.816	0.967	0.993	0.877
CESM2	[-]	287.	287.	287.		285.		0.312	2.01	0.454		0.837	0.841	0.965	0.992	0.895
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	284.	284.	287.				-2.86	3.39	0.242		0.684	0.837	0.979	0.999	0.867
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	284.	284.	287.				-2.33	3.16	0.446		0.726	0.813	0.963	0.997	0.862
MeanCMIP6	[-]	285.	285.	287.				-2.77	3.39	0.216		0.753	0.859	0.982	0.760	0.843
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	287.	286.	287.				-0.273	2.89	0.271		0.774	0.802	0.975	0.968	0.864
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	285.	285.	287.				-1.86	2.64	0.438		0.744	0.851	0.965	0.999	0.882
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	284.	284.	287.				-2.27	3.26	0.348		0.710	0.813	0.971	0.971	0.856

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	304.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	304.	304.	304.				-0.0848	2.07	1.69		0.280	0.358	0.754	0.799	0.510
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	304.	304.	304.				0.381	2.39	2.06		0.226	0.376	0.677	0.679	0.467
CanESM5	[-]	303.	303.	304.				-1.05	2.76	2.48		0.204	0.332	0.586	0.707	0.432
CESM2	[-]	303.	303.	304.		303.		-0.710	1.74	1.52		0.374	0.416	0.791	0.891	0.577
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	301.	301.	304.				-2.57	2.97	1.70		0.143	0.442	0.745	0.937	0.542
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	300.	300.	304.				-3.79	3.92	2.19		0.0659	0.556	0.656	0.810	0.529
MeanCMIP6	[-]	301.	301.	304.				-5.15	5.41	1.54		0.238	0.549	0.767	0.0715	0.435
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	301.	301.	304.				-2.97	3.27	1.78		0.119	0.435	0.738	0.914	0.528
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	301.	301.	304.				-2.66	3.14	1.60		0.122	0.478	0.764	0.812	0.531
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	302.	302.	304.				-2.05	2.53	2.20		0.203	0.414	0.658	0.938	0.526

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	303.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	303.	303.	303.				-0.263	2.62	1.00		0.465	0.461	0.874	0.854	0.623
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	304.	304.	303.				0.136	2.03	1.06		0.502	0.542	0.863	0.939	0.677
CanESM5	[-]	303.	303.	303.				-1.03	3.02	1.15		0.398	0.442	0.850	0.820	0.590
CESM2	[-]	303.	303.	303.		303.		-0.643	1.86	0.946		0.542	0.551	0.894	0.981	0.704
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	301.	301.	303.				-2.49	3.03	0.830		0.319	0.498	0.901	0.989	0.641
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	300.	300.	303.				-3.47	3.69	1.02		0.216	0.594	0.866	0.995	0.653
MeanCMIP6	[-]	302.	302.	303.				-3.59	4.10	0.743		0.440	0.615	0.911	0.235	0.563
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	302.	302.	303.				-1.66	3.11	1.01		0.336	0.556	0.872	0.888	0.642
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	302.	302.	303.				-1.74	2.67	0.849		0.399	0.507	0.898	0.953	0.653
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	302.	302.	303.				-1.21	2.55	1.01		0.412	0.517	0.873	0.891	0.642

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	266.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	265.	265.	266.				-1.10	4.17	0.0700		0.848	0.793	0.995	0.955	0.877
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	265.	265.	266.				-1.61	4.83	0.0972		0.835	0.765	0.993	0.988	0.869
CanESM5	[-]	266.	266.	266.				-0.563	4.31	0.123		0.828	0.791	0.992	0.892	0.859
CESM2	[-]	266.	266.	266.		264.		-0.406	4.70	0.266		0.841	0.768	0.982	0.916	0.855
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	265.	265.	266.				-0.647	4.13	0.0286		0.838	0.801	0.998	0.946	0.877
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	266.	266.	266.				0.0502	4.55	0.0887		0.815	0.789	0.994	0.901	0.858
MeanCMIP6	[-]	265.	265.	266.				-1.71	4.14	0.0425		0.841	0.821	0.997	0.773	0.850
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	266.	267.	266.				0.261	4.29	0.0338		0.815	0.810	0.998	0.986	0.884
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	266.	266.	266.				-0.432	4.39	0.119		0.828	0.798	0.992	0.915	0.866
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	262.	262.	266.				-4.14	5.43	0.0556		0.731	0.796	0.996	0.943	0.852

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [K]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [K]	Model Period Mean (complement) [K]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [K]		Bias [K]	RMSE [K]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	289.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	288.	288.	289.				-0.693	2.68	0.331		0.793	0.811	0.975	0.999	0.878
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	287.	287.	289.				-1.32	2.97	0.282		0.775	0.791	0.976	0.986	0.864
CanESM5	[-]	288.	287.	289.				-1.14	3.22	0.326		0.754	0.793	0.973	0.975	0.858
CESM2	[-]	288.	288.	289.		292.		-0.152	2.06	0.399		0.816	0.860	0.971	1.00	0.901
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	286.	286.	289.				-2.58	3.24	0.257		0.707	0.835	0.980	1.00	0.872
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	285.	285.	289.				-3.23	4.00	0.471		0.671	0.817	0.965	0.979	0.850
MeanCMIP6	[-]	287.	287.	289.				-2.34	3.12	0.233		0.766	0.860	0.983	0.899	0.874
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	289.	289.	289.				0.422	3.35	0.238		0.745	0.795	0.980	0.974	0.858
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	288.	288.	289.				-1.02	2.39	0.471		0.790	0.839	0.965	1.00	0.887
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	287.	287.	289.				-1.77	3.00	0.265		0.743	0.825	0.979	0.992	0.873

Boreal forest Global - Land Subtropical desert Temperate grassland/desert Temperate rain forest Temperate seasonal forest Tropical rain forest Tropical seasonal forest/savanna Tundra Woodland/shrubland 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:

CRU time series (TS) high-resolution gridded datasets

  Version:

4.02

  Institutions:

Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK

  Source:

monthly observations at meteorological stations across the world land areas

  History:

2019-05-06: downloaded source from https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/cru_ts_4.02/

2019-05-06: converted to netCDF with https://gist.github.com/nocollier/d73585731756fa472731065389af45dc

  References:

Harris, I., P.D. Jones, T.J. Osborn and D.H. Lister (2014), Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset, International Journal of Climatology, 34(3), 623-642, doi:10.1002/joc.3711

  Comments:

time_period: 1960-01 through 2017-12

original_temporal_resolution: monthly

original_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree

original_units: C

final_temporal_resolution: monthly

final_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree

final_units: K

  Convention:

CF-1.7