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) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	48.4
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	109.	107.	48.3	0.182	0.0978		4.14		0.425	0.631	0.528
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	89.9	89.2	48.3	0.164	0.0978		2.86		0.431	0.663	0.547
CLM-Princeton	[-]	139.	138.	48.3	0.188	0.0978		6.26		0.322	0.529	0.426
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	56.8	57.4	48.4	0.0496	0.00568		0.647		0.602	0.904	0.753
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	50.9	51.5	48.4	0.0464	0.00568		0.238		0.623	0.898	0.761
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	76.7	77.7	48.4	0.0624	0.00568		2.07		0.553	0.799	0.676
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	24.6	24.7	47.5	0.0293	0.899		-1.66		0.456	0.709	0.582
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	37.0	36.7	47.5	0.123	0.899		-0.793		0.495	0.760	0.628
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	47.4	48.1	47.5	0.0601	0.899		0.0493		0.522	0.798	0.660
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	62.3	64.0	48.4	0.0963	0.00479		1.08		0.577	0.906	0.742
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	57.8	59.6	48.4	0.124	0.00479		0.773		0.571	0.888	0.730
Mean-Princeton	[-]	86.0	88.6	48.4	0.115	0.00479		2.79		0.536	0.870	0.703

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	364.
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	721.	684.	362.	31.7	2.19		2.62		0.507	0.698	0.602
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	577.	542.	362.	28.4	2.19		1.46		0.573	0.786	0.679
CLM-Princeton	[-]	812.	776.	362.	32.9	2.19		3.37		0.470	0.648	0.559
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	740.	671.	364.	62.1	0.203		2.48		0.551	0.750	0.650
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	663.	599.	364.	57.9	0.203		1.90		0.604	0.811	0.708
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	851.	775.	364.	68.3	0.203		3.33		0.519	0.695	0.607
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	354.	345.	337.	7.09	27.2		0.0790		0.579	0.843	0.711
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	387.	378.	337.	7.51	27.2		0.377		0.625	0.864	0.744
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	453.	443.	337.	7.83	27.2		0.963		0.613	0.853	0.733
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	673.	608.	364.	65.0	0.369		1.97		0.590	0.814	0.702
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	604.	544.	364.	60.5	0.369		1.46		0.641	0.872	0.756
Mean-Princeton	[-]	781.	710.	364.	70.3	0.369		2.80		0.563	0.788	0.676

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	2.80
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	7.32	5.73	2.73	1.03	0.0754		0.192		0.508	0.706	0.607
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	5.05	4.06	2.73	0.707	0.0754		0.0839		0.488	0.669	0.578
CLM-Princeton	[-]	6.55	5.07	2.73	0.871	0.0754		0.150		0.518	0.697	0.608
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	9.97	8.30	2.79	1.52	0.0125		0.356		0.454	0.270	0.362
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	9.20	7.90	2.79	1.18	0.0125		0.332		0.469	0.306	0.387
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	11.9	10.1	2.79	1.56	0.0125		0.470		0.415	0.212	0.314
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	9.92	8.72	2.52	1.18	0.279		0.435		0.473	0.439	0.456
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	12.1	11.1	2.52	1.05	0.279		0.602		0.465	0.323	0.394
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	8.97	8.01	2.52	0.817	0.279		0.386		0.493	0.446	0.469
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	10.5	8.44	2.80	1.86	0.00844		0.353		0.515	0.385	0.450
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	10.2	8.47	2.80	1.42	0.00844		0.355		0.514	0.482	0.498
Mean-Princeton	[-]	10.9	8.80	2.80	1.79	0.00844		0.376		0.498	0.327	0.412

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.35
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	2.73	2.41	1.35	0.340	0.00234		0.177		0.473	0.680	0.576
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	2.46	2.19	1.35	0.208	0.00234		0.150		0.476	0.639	0.557
CLM-Princeton	[-]	3.00	2.79	1.35	0.280	0.00234		0.242		0.486	0.642	0.564
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	2.96	2.23	1.35	0.194	7.30e-05		0.131		0.467	0.590	0.528
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	3.18	2.33	1.35	0.224	7.30e-05		0.151		0.467	0.537	0.502
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	3.56	2.68	1.35	0.236	7.30e-05		0.206		0.455	0.522	0.488
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	0.919	0.813	1.27	0.124	0.0869		-0.0811		0.437	0.266	0.351
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	3.64	3.12	1.27	0.449	0.0869		0.300		0.464	0.643	0.553
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	1.92	1.69	1.27	0.248	0.0869		0.0645		0.463	0.542	0.503
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	1.95	1.81	1.35	0.300	0.00237		0.0742		0.494	0.661	0.577
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	2.89	2.52	1.35	0.386	0.00237		0.188		0.515	0.673	0.594
Mean-Princeton	[-]	2.72	2.42	1.35	0.349	0.00237		0.172		0.504	0.699	0.602

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	3.92
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	7.62	7.11	3.70		0.217		5.43		0.551	0.879	0.715
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	7.08	6.56	3.70		0.217		4.62		0.570	0.892	0.731
CLM-Princeton	[-]	8.85	8.21	3.70		0.217		7.40		0.501	0.884	0.693
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	5.32	4.84	3.92		0.00461		1.67		0.580	0.834	0.707
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	5.30	4.62	3.92		0.00461		1.33		0.608	0.845	0.727
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	6.67	5.79	3.92		0.00461		3.05		0.625	0.842	0.733
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	3.11	3.02	2.93		0.994		0.234		0.576	0.805	0.690
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	2.72	2.66	2.93		0.994		-0.551		0.578	0.680	0.629
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	4.49	3.76	2.93		0.994		1.84		0.599	0.795	0.697
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	6.91	5.71	3.91		0.0123		2.69		0.603	0.861	0.732
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	6.47	5.34	3.91		0.0123		2.13		0.621	0.825	0.723
Mean-Princeton	[-]	8.28	6.84	3.91		0.0123		4.36		0.621	0.895	0.758

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	60.2
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	107.	106.	59.8	0.274	0.445		2.98		0.493	0.700	0.597
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	88.2	87.6	59.8	0.216	0.445		1.76		0.557	0.772	0.664
CLM-Princeton	[-]	127.	126.	59.8	0.269	0.445		4.22		0.493	0.653	0.573
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	122.	119.	60.2	0.831	0.0123		3.69		0.465	0.759	0.612
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	113.	110.	60.2	0.775	0.0123		3.12		0.507	0.804	0.656
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	158.	155.	60.2	1.12	0.0123		5.94		0.386	0.652	0.519
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	40.5	39.2	55.7	0.0758	4.48		-1.18		0.520	0.763	0.642
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	63.5	61.9	55.7	0.137	4.48		0.448		0.610	0.848	0.729
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	77.5	75.1	55.7	0.123	4.48		1.39		0.545	0.798	0.671
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	95.8	95.4	60.1	0.591	0.0858		2.23		0.555	0.843	0.699
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	93.7	93.0	60.1	0.564	0.0858		2.07		0.594	0.874	0.734
Mean-Princeton	[-]	128.	127.	60.1	0.766	0.0858		4.22		0.489	0.808	0.649

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	50.9
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	98.7	97.8	49.8		1.07		10.2		0.480	0.910	0.695
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	84.6	84.1	49.8		1.07		7.24		0.587	0.955	0.771
CLM-Princeton	[-]	103.	102.	49.8		1.07		11.1		0.445	0.886	0.665
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	90.1	89.1	50.8		0.0545		7.65		0.582	0.942	0.762
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	80.1	79.4	50.8		0.0545		5.73		0.663	0.947	0.805
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	88.4	87.4	50.8		0.0545		7.32		0.599	0.940	0.770
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	60.2	57.2	43.0		7.91		3.69		0.668	0.916	0.792
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	47.1	44.9	43.0		7.91		0.508		0.778	0.963	0.871
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	55.2	52.5	43.0		7.91		2.47		0.716	0.949	0.833
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	88.2	90.8	50.8		0.0566		7.93		0.576	0.949	0.763
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	76.2	78.2	50.8		0.0566		5.44		0.681	0.952	0.816
Mean-Princeton	[-]	88.5	90.9	50.8		0.0566		7.95		0.579	0.945	0.762

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	156.
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	295.	292.	153.	0.301	2.33		3.92		0.520	0.766	0.643
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	220.	217.	153.	0.255	2.33		1.79		0.627	0.864	0.746
CLM-Princeton	[-]	305.	302.	153.	0.329	2.33		4.21		0.492	0.734	0.613
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	330.	332.	156.	1.12	0.251		4.87		0.546	0.821	0.683
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	285.	287.	156.	0.948	0.251		3.62		0.621	0.873	0.747
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	357.	359.	156.	1.16	0.251		5.61		0.517	0.798	0.657
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	189.	190.	142.	0.110	13.9		1.55		0.654	0.903	0.779
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	176.	177.	142.	0.0994	13.9		1.13		0.670	0.894	0.782
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	207.	209.	142.	0.123	13.9		2.18		0.658	0.902	0.780
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	301.	294.	155.	1.11	0.348		3.84		0.602	0.869	0.735
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	254.	248.	155.	0.946	0.348		2.56		0.680	0.914	0.797
Mean-Princeton	[-]	322.	315.	155.	1.12	0.348		4.42		0.571	0.856	0.714

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	22.0
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	27.0	30.2	22.0	0.353	0.00951		0.708		0.657	0.918	0.788
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	18.2	19.5	22.0	0.225	0.00951		-0.197		0.549	0.777	0.663
CLM-Princeton	[-]	43.6	47.9	22.0	0.516	0.00951		2.20		0.522	0.836	0.679
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	15.6	15.9	22.0	0.0307	0.00142		-0.496		0.634	0.810	0.722
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	13.9	14.2	22.0	0.0274	0.00142		-0.641		0.627	0.722	0.674
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	21.1	21.6	22.0	0.0326	0.00142		-0.0191		0.644	0.920	0.782
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	7.90	7.93	21.8	0.0221	0.147		-1.22		0.455	0.298	0.376
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	12.1	12.1	21.8	0.0451	0.147		-0.857		0.470	0.478	0.474
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	19.2	18.8	21.8	0.0398	0.147		-0.255		0.591	0.793	0.692
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	17.6	18.3	22.0	0.156	4.20e-06		-0.307		0.644	0.692	0.668
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	14.9	15.5	22.0	0.118	4.20e-06		-0.540		0.576	0.514	0.545
Mean-Princeton	[-]	29.0	29.9	22.0	0.227	4.20e-06		0.658		0.697	0.938	0.817

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]	Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [Pg]		Bias [kg m-2]		Bias Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	22.0
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	25.2	25.1	21.9	0.139	0.140		0.200		0.541	0.794	0.668
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	23.5	23.0	21.9	0.135	0.140		0.0681		0.557	0.815	0.686
CLM-Princeton	[-]	34.3	33.8	21.9	0.148	0.140		0.710		0.561	0.765	0.663
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	43.1	43.0	22.0	0.204	0.00748		1.23		0.517	0.730	0.623
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	43.4	42.9	22.0	0.207	0.00748		1.22		0.526	0.744	0.635
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	57.6	57.0	22.0	0.244	0.00748		2.04		0.468	0.613	0.540
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	11.7	11.2	20.5	0.0389	1.55		-0.573		0.479	0.564	0.522
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	27.8	26.6	20.5	0.103	1.55		0.397		0.532	0.779	0.656
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	24.4	23.3	20.5	0.0777	1.55		0.191		0.532	0.777	0.655
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	29.8	29.2	21.9	0.212	0.0925		0.425		0.580	0.813	0.696
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	34.3	33.6	21.9	0.232	0.0925		0.683		0.598	0.835	0.716
Mean-Princeton	[-]	42.2	41.4	21.9	0.255	0.0925		1.14		0.560	0.801	0.680

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 bias Temporally integrated period mean bias score

  Title:

Global forest live biomass carbon version 5.1

  Version:

5.1

  Institutions:

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

  Source:

A combination of data in situ inventory plots and satellite light detection and ranging (Lidar) samples

  History:

2017-10-31: downloaded source from https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Saatchi

2019-03-14: convert original tif files to netcdf data using gdal_translate

2019-11-06: converted to ILAMB required netCDF with https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-biomass-GlobalCarbon.py

  References:

Saatchi, S.S., N.L. Harris, S. Brown, M. Lefsky, E.T. 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, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(24), 9899-9904, doi:10.1073/pnas.1019576108

  Comments:

time_period: climatology

original_temporal_resolution: climatology

original_spatial_resolution: 0.25 degree

original_units: kg/m2 biomass

final_temporal_resolution: climatology

final_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree

final_units: kg/m2 carbon

  Convention:

CF-1.7