Equatorial Africa Equatorial Asia Global - Land South America - Amazon Temperate Latitudes

	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	[-]	56.3
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	44.1	43.8	55.8	0.245	0.0374		-1.17		0.716	0.922	0.819
BGCv2LND.GSW	[-]	97.9	97.9	56.3	0.0777	0.00545		4.12		0.486	0.423	0.455
BGCv2LNDATM	[-]	118.	118.	56.3	0.0662	0.00545		6.10		0.422	0.331	0.376
CanESM5	[-]	92.7	84.7	56.3	1.86			3.25		0.644	0.915	0.780
MeanCMIP6	[-]	65.2	65.4	56.3	0.865			1.22		0.693	0.927	0.810
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	75.1	67.7	56.3	2.75	0.0106		1.55		0.619	0.880	0.749

	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	[-]	37.5
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	26.7	24.9	36.9	1.71	0.805		-1.28		0.679	0.898	0.789
BGCv2LND.GSW	[-]	62.4	61.5	37.3	0.866	0.163		5.88		0.673	0.907	0.790
BGCv2LNDATM	[-]	67.5	66.8	37.3	0.777	0.163		7.16		0.572	0.854	0.713
CanESM5	[-]	39.8	30.7	37.6	8.26			5.30		0.727	0.821	0.774
MeanCMIP6	[-]	27.8	24.6	37.5	3.46			1.23		0.703	0.612	0.657
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	27.2	18.0	37.2	7.86	0.387		-0.272		0.592	0.425	0.509

	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	[-]	349.
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	362.	228.	347.	133.	1.74		-1.49		0.641	0.878	0.760
BGCv2LND.GSW	[-]	666.	502.	349.	164.	0.298		2.17		0.576	0.578	0.577
BGCv2LNDATM	[-]	704.	572.	349.	131.	0.298		3.17		0.513	0.466	0.489
CanESM5	[-]	505.	333.	349.	162.			0.715		0.607	0.870	0.739
MeanCMIP6	[-]	446.	294.	349.	153.			-0.198		0.654	0.868	0.761
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	499.	315.	348.	173.	0.459		0.185		0.614	0.872	0.743

	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	[-]	100.
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	71.2	71.1	100.	0.163	0.132		-3.28		0.704	0.837	0.770
BGCv2LND.GSW	[-]	190.	190.	100.	0.232	0.00476		10.6		0.532	0.482	0.507
BGCv2LNDATM	[-]	227.	226.	100.	0.219	0.00476		14.8		0.405	0.348	0.377
CanESM5	[-]	61.5	57.2	100.	0.368			-4.67		0.623	0.868	0.746
MeanCMIP6	[-]	71.5	71.1	100.	0.401			-3.09		0.702	0.578	0.640
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	88.0	83.7	100.	0.943	0.0329		-1.49		0.734	0.762	0.748

	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	[-]	10.7
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	126.	4.70	10.7	120.	0.0889		-1.57		0.512	0.751	0.631
BGCv2LND.GSW	[-]	151.	6.42	10.7	144.	0.0141		-1.28		0.502	0.617	0.560
BGCv2LNDATM	[-]	122.	6.37	10.7	115.	0.0141		-1.29		0.546	0.716	0.631
CanESM5	[-]	136.	3.56	10.7	138.			-1.54		0.516	0.717	0.616
MeanCMIP6	[-]	137.	4.74	10.7	132.			-1.39		0.557	0.826	0.692
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	148.	6.20	10.7	146.	0.00165		-1.06		0.548	0.808	0.678

Equatorial Africa Equatorial Asia Global - Land High Latitude South America - Amazon Temperate Latitudes Temporally integrated period mean Temporally integrated period mean bias Temporally integrated period mean bias score

  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)