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	[-]	272.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	273.	273.	272.				1.14	3.02	0.114		0.853	0.835	0.991	0.930	0.889
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	270.	270.	272.				-1.96	3.21	0.111		0.806	0.852	0.992	0.944	0.889
CanESM5	[-]	272.	272.	272.				0.360	3.04	0.150		0.826	0.845	0.990	0.772	0.856
CESM2	[-]	273.	273.	272.				1.01	2.94	0.162		0.880	0.818	0.989	0.960	0.893
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	271.	271.	272.				-0.920	2.62	0.0903		0.858	0.864	0.994	0.982	0.912
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	270.	270.	272.				-0.970	3.22	0.162		0.837	0.835	0.989	0.765	0.852
MeanCMIP6	[-]	271.	271.	272.				-0.492	2.06	0.0866		0.881	0.885	0.994	0.966	0.922
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	273.	273.	272.				1.68	3.83	0.103		0.767	0.841	0.993	0.784	0.845
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	272.	272.	272.				0.114	2.29	0.123		0.874	0.869	0.992	0.966	0.914
NorESM2-LM	[-]	272.	272.	272.				0.806	3.22	0.258		0.871	0.809	0.983	0.921	0.879
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	270.	269.	272.				-2.04	3.29	0.112		0.807	0.841	0.992	0.896	0.875

	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	[-]	283.	287.	287.	249.			0.596	2.55	0.496		0.686	0.726	0.944	0.999	0.816
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	282.	286.	287.	248.			-0.363	2.36	0.529		0.716	0.739	0.939	0.999	0.826
CanESM5	[-]	282.	286.	287.	249.			-0.0366	2.84	0.547		0.678	0.698	0.935	1.00	0.802
CESM2	[-]	283.	287.	287.	245.			0.929	2.28	0.538		0.724	0.758	0.944	0.999	0.837
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	282.	286.	287.	263.			-0.862	2.32	0.476		0.699	0.729	0.948	0.999	0.821
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	281.	285.	287.	245.			-1.19	2.70	0.622		0.668	0.750	0.931	0.999	0.819
MeanCMIP6	[-]	282.	286.	287.	249.			-0.0707	1.80	0.393		0.760	0.790	0.958	1.00	0.860
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	284.	288.	287.	260.			1.21	2.94	0.523		0.647	0.740	0.940	0.999	0.813
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	282.	287.	287.	241.			0.219	2.20	0.500		0.707	0.737	0.945	1.00	0.825
NorESM2-LM	[-]	283.	287.	287.	248.			0.786	2.63	0.614		0.692	0.739	0.938	1.00	0.822
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	281.	285.	287.	245.			-0.994	2.50	0.488		0.692	0.737	0.946	0.994	0.821

	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	[-]	297.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	296.	296.	297.				-1.03	2.38	0.563		0.718	0.748	0.947	1.00	0.832
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	297.	297.	297.				-0.0892	1.86	0.558		0.790	0.762	0.949	0.984	0.850
CanESM5	[-]	296.	296.	297.				-0.711	2.54	0.670		0.723	0.720	0.929	0.989	0.816
CESM2	[-]	297.	297.	297.				0.262	1.79	0.414		0.770	0.787	0.963	1.00	0.861
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	296.	296.	297.				-0.741	2.04	0.605		0.769	0.746	0.951	1.00	0.843
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	295.	295.	297.				-2.02	2.63	0.678		0.655	0.768	0.937	1.00	0.826
MeanCMIP6	[-]	297.	297.	297.				-0.153	1.59	0.453		0.790	0.806	0.965	1.00	0.873
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	299.	299.	297.				1.33	2.36	0.598		0.703	0.769	0.943	1.00	0.837
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	298.	298.	297.				0.744	1.99	0.504		0.758	0.749	0.958	0.992	0.841
NorESM2-LM	[-]	297.	297.	297.				-0.206	2.22	0.528		0.714	0.778	0.953	0.999	0.844
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	296.	296.	297.				-0.939	2.10	0.513		0.729	0.788	0.959	0.982	0.849

	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	[-]	283.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	283.	283.	283.				0.482	2.77	0.137		0.802	0.839	0.988	1.00	0.894
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	282.	282.	283.				-0.960	2.85	0.117		0.786	0.843	0.989	0.973	0.887
CanESM5	[-]	281.	281.	283.				-1.68	4.37	0.176		0.710	0.781	0.984	0.887	0.829
CESM2	[-]	284.	284.	283.				1.70	2.61	0.174		0.776	0.874	0.982	1.00	0.901
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	283.	283.	283.				-0.248	2.34	0.168		0.814	0.861	0.985	0.991	0.902
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	280.	280.	283.				-2.38	3.87	0.302		0.716	0.823	0.978	0.897	0.847
MeanCMIP6	[-]	283.	283.	283.				0.174	2.28	0.105		0.814	0.877	0.989	0.990	0.910
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	285.	285.	283.				2.28	4.12	0.124		0.686	0.836	0.987	0.942	0.857
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	284.	284.	283.				1.24	2.68	0.145		0.783	0.848	0.987	0.997	0.892
NorESM2-LM	[-]	285.	285.	283.				2.01	3.35	0.192		0.736	0.843	0.982	0.997	0.880
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	282.	282.	283.				-0.698	2.64	0.152		0.788	0.863	0.987	0.992	0.898

	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	[-]	283.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	282.	285.	282.				2.31	3.73	0.867		0.527	0.690	0.881	0.885	0.735
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	283.	284.	282.				0.711	3.65	0.757		0.500	0.685	0.920	0.839	0.726
CanESM5	[-]	283.	285.	282.				2.12	3.96	0.751		0.529	0.619	0.912	0.851	0.706
CESM2	[-]	284.	285.	282.				1.87	2.91	0.762		0.535	0.717	0.909	0.942	0.764
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	282.	282.	282.				-0.143	2.53	0.800		0.577	0.704	0.905	0.952	0.768
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	281.	283.	282.				0.397	3.35	0.943		0.530	0.683	0.865	0.881	0.728
MeanCMIP6	[-]	284.	284.	283.				1.22	2.77	0.684		0.572	0.760	0.922	0.909	0.785
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	284.	286.	282.				3.16	3.95	0.879		0.497	0.718	0.894	0.961	0.758
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	282.	282.	282.				0.100	2.76	0.767		0.547	0.711	0.910	0.891	0.754
NorESM2-LM	[-]	284.	285.	282.				2.04	3.61	0.641		0.520	0.690	0.940	0.855	0.739
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	284.	285.	282.				1.17	3.29	0.625		0.562	0.683	0.937	0.853	0.744

	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	[-]	282.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	283.	283.	282.				1.23	2.42	0.242		0.785	0.834	0.978	0.998	0.886
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	281.	281.	282.				-0.639	2.63	0.251		0.777	0.806	0.977	0.963	0.866
CanESM5	[-]	282.	282.	282.				0.516	2.44	0.257		0.789	0.825	0.977	0.985	0.880
CESM2	[-]	283.	283.	282.				1.37	2.24	0.444		0.788	0.844	0.963	0.994	0.887
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	280.	280.	282.				-1.55	2.34	0.238		0.776	0.856	0.978	0.998	0.893
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	281.	281.	282.				-0.732	2.49	0.421		0.806	0.806	0.965	0.985	0.873
MeanCMIP6	[-]	281.	282.	282.				-0.109	1.70	0.200		0.833	0.874	0.982	0.988	0.910
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	284.	283.	282.				1.46	2.96	0.231		0.741	0.821	0.979	0.978	0.868
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	281.	281.	282.				-0.504	1.85	0.339		0.820	0.862	0.970	0.998	0.902
NorESM2-LM	[-]	283.	283.	282.				1.41	2.50	0.613		0.778	0.832	0.954	0.974	0.874
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	281.	281.	282.				-0.973	2.60	0.331		0.789	0.815	0.973	0.964	0.871

	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	[-]	299.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	300.	300.	299.				1.52	2.13	1.84		0.165	0.403	0.736	0.970	0.535
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	299.	299.	299.				0.551	1.81	1.74		0.227	0.459	0.752	0.871	0.554
CanESM5	[-]	300.	300.	299.				1.08	2.27	1.84		0.152	0.366	0.719	0.873	0.495
CESM2	[-]	299.	299.	299.				0.155	1.23	1.96		0.374	0.521	0.719	0.978	0.623
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	298.	298.	299.				-1.28	1.92	1.97		0.205	0.466	0.687	0.966	0.558
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	297.	297.	299.				-0.947	1.58	2.11		0.269	0.568	0.671	0.894	0.594
MeanCMIP6	[-]	298.	298.	299.				-0.0793	1.29	1.54		0.357	0.561	0.774	0.982	0.647
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	298.	298.	299.				-0.637	1.88	2.11		0.229	0.415	0.689	0.948	0.539
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	297.	297.	299.				-0.936	1.94	1.93		0.183	0.515	0.698	0.858	0.554
NorESM2-LM	[-]	299.	299.	299.				0.297	1.43	1.85		0.337	0.498	0.737	0.990	0.612
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	299.	299.	299.				0.186	1.56	1.77		0.281	0.411	0.724	0.968	0.559

	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	[-]	298.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	299.	299.	298.				0.807	1.97	0.956		0.466	0.539	0.879	0.953	0.675
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	298.	298.	298.				0.327	1.71	1.10		0.514	0.576	0.855	0.958	0.696
CanESM5	[-]	298.	298.	298.				0.277	2.30	0.993		0.479	0.481	0.870	0.876	0.637
CESM2	[-]	298.	298.	298.				0.600	1.57	0.959		0.546	0.603	0.890	0.991	0.727
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	297.	297.	298.				-1.15	1.98	0.818		0.460	0.506	0.901	0.984	0.671
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	297.	296.	298.				-1.12	1.74	1.08		0.477	0.615	0.863	0.984	0.711
MeanCMIP6	[-]	298.	298.	298.				-0.0141	1.32	0.726		0.600	0.635	0.913	0.994	0.755
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	298.	298.	298.				-0.138	2.06	1.01		0.455	0.577	0.878	0.977	0.693
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	297.	297.	298.				-0.326	1.88	0.852		0.479	0.523	0.893	0.961	0.676
NorESM2-LM	[-]	298.	298.	298.				0.380	1.80	0.985		0.511	0.575	0.882	0.992	0.707
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	298.	298.	298.				0.0504	1.73	0.921		0.516	0.539	0.885	0.954	0.687

	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	[-]	262.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	263.	263.	262.				1.46	3.91	0.0711		0.852	0.819	0.994	0.990	0.895
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	261.	261.	262.				-0.205	3.72	0.103		0.882	0.806	0.993	0.992	0.896
CanESM5	[-]	262.	263.	262.				0.724	4.02	0.117		0.827	0.823	0.992	0.942	0.881
CESM2	[-]	263.	263.	262.				1.78	4.35	0.238		0.840	0.794	0.984	0.988	0.880
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	262.	262.	262.				0.640	3.35	0.0291		0.873	0.832	0.998	0.991	0.905
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	262.	262.	262.				0.891	4.11	0.0983		0.829	0.816	0.993	0.938	0.879
MeanCMIP6	[-]	262.	262.	262.				0.252	3.00	0.0482		0.892	0.852	0.997	0.998	0.918
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	264.	264.	262.				2.50	4.29	0.0289		0.805	0.834	0.998	0.998	0.894
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	263.	263.	262.				1.27	3.67	0.102		0.849	0.830	0.993	0.990	0.899
NorESM2-LM	[-]	263.	263.	262.				1.41	4.60	0.305		0.826	0.791	0.979	0.973	0.872
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	259.	259.	262.				-3.02	4.37	0.0635		0.786	0.823	0.996	0.984	0.883

	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	[-]	283.
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	284.	284.	283.				1.12	2.55	0.224		0.776	0.832	0.983	0.999	0.884
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	282.	282.	283.				-0.556	2.45	0.211		0.790	0.824	0.983	0.987	0.882
CanESM5	[-]	282.	282.	283.				-0.407	2.93	0.235		0.763	0.812	0.981	0.955	0.865
CESM2	[-]	284.	284.	283.				1.42	2.32	0.378		0.774	0.860	0.971	1.00	0.893
GFDL-ESM4	[-]	282.	282.	283.				-1.15	2.26	0.234		0.797	0.852	0.982	0.999	0.896
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	281.	281.	283.				-1.56	2.98	0.404		0.759	0.823	0.969	0.945	0.864
MeanCMIP6	[-]	283.	283.	283.				0.0513	1.83	0.193		0.824	0.878	0.985	0.995	0.912
MIROC-ESM2L	[-]	285.	285.	283.				1.98	3.33	0.208		0.714	0.824	0.980	0.989	0.866
MPI-ESM1.2-HR	[-]	283.	283.	283.				0.226	2.00	0.391		0.815	0.851	0.970	0.999	0.897
NorESM2-LM	[-]	285.	284.	283.				1.80	2.84	0.482		0.748	0.831	0.964	0.999	0.875
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	282.	281.	283.				-1.03	2.47	0.233		0.784	0.840	0.981	0.989	0.887

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/

2019-05-07: converted to netCDF with https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-tas-cru.py

  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: 1980-01 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