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Benchmark [-] 1.58
BGCLND [-] 0.705 0.722 1.58 0.00376 0.00930 -0.863 2.85 1.53 0.718 0.468 0.881 0.470 0.601
BGCLNDATM_progCO2 [-] 0.338 0.345 1.58 0.00477 0.00930 -1.24 2.94 1.77 0.665 0.447 0.783 0.163 0.501
CNRM-ESM2-1 [-] 0.0280 0.0280 1.59 0.0303 0.0342 -1.58 3.15 1.79 0.605 0.429 0.810 0.000703 0.455
EC-Earth3-CC [-] 0.117 0.218 1.58 0.00438 -1.38 3.36 2.58 0.623 0.433 0.632 0.0514 0.434
NorESM2-LM [-] 0.823 0.864 1.58 0.241 -0.761 3.32 2.05 0.723 0.406 0.662 0.590 0.557
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Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 0.0552
BGCLND [-] 0.0722 0.0769 0.0573 0.0195 0.00357 0.0196 0.150 1.94 0.767 0.581 0.836 0.562 0.665
BGCLNDATM_progCO2 [-] 0.0746 0.0778 0.0573 0.0391 0.00357 0.0205 0.160 1.85 0.738 0.600 0.830 0.457 0.645
CNRM-ESM2-1 [-] 0.00698 0.00620 0.0562 0.0129 0.0157 -0.0478 0.103 1.91 0.740 0.630 0.776 0.0325 0.562
EC-Earth3-CC [-] 0.00557 0.0174 0.0554 0.000211 -0.0392 0.136 3.33 0.757 0.551 0.436 0.131 0.485
NorESM2-LM [-] 0.0759 0.0710 0.0552 0.0881 0.0210 0.178 1.59 0.762 0.568 0.866 0.664 0.686
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Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]
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Model Period Mean (complement) [%]
Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]
Bias [%]
RMSE [%]
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Bias Score [1]
RMSE Score [1]
Seasonal Cycle Score [1]
Spatial Distribution Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 0.325
BGCLND [-] 0.229 0.264 0.327 0.00317 0.00551 -0.0630 0.764 2.19 0.729 0.487 0.779 0.647 0.626
BGCLNDATM_progCO2 [-] 0.135 0.156 0.327 0.00373 0.00551 -0.171 0.690 2.25 0.691 0.487 0.720 0.333 0.543
CNRM-ESM2-1 [-] 0.0136 0.0169 0.326 0.00175 0.0663 -0.310 0.615 2.13 0.639 0.496 0.799 0.00364 0.487
EC-Earth3-CC [-] 0.0865 0.102 0.325 0.0452 -0.224 0.833 3.13 0.658 0.459 0.543 0.150 0.454
NorESM2-LM [-] 0.210 0.266 0.325 0.0177 -0.0744 0.748 2.07 0.726 0.465 0.719 0.655 0.606
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Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]
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Model Period Mean (complement) [%]
Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]
Bias [%]
RMSE [%]
Phase Shift [months]
Bias Score [1]
RMSE Score [1]
Seasonal Cycle Score [1]
Spatial Distribution Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 0.0501
BGCLND [-] 0.0504 0.0551 0.0505 0.000682 0.000868 0.00463 0.180 2.38 0.813 0.612 0.708 0.690 0.687
BGCLNDATM_progCO2 [-] 0.0412 0.0450 0.0505 0.00127 0.000868 -0.00553 0.175 2.51 0.801 0.638 0.684 0.589 0.670
CNRM-ESM2-1 [-] 0.00215 0.00244 0.0501 0.000542 0.000783 -0.0476 0.107 2.38 0.795 0.672 0.655 0.00210 0.559
EC-Earth3-CC [-] 0.00484 0.00942 0.0501 6.52e-05 -0.0402 0.124 3.57 0.806 0.649 0.198 0.0224 0.465
NorESM2-LM [-] 0.0180 0.0187 0.0501 0.000523 -0.0332 0.112 2.18 0.826 0.669 0.778 0.406 0.670
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Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]
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Model Period Mean (complement) [%]
Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]
Bias [%]
RMSE [%]
Phase Shift [months]
Bias Score [1]
RMSE Score [1]
Seasonal Cycle Score [1]
Spatial Distribution Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 0.131
BGCLND [-] 0.120 0.120 0.131 0.0591 0.00246 -0.0110 0.299 1.44 0.706 0.516 0.911 0.755 0.681
BGCLNDATM_progCO2 [-] 0.112 0.112 0.131 0.00567 0.00246 -0.0185 0.283 1.55 0.705 0.512 0.886 0.768 0.676
CNRM-ESM2-1 [-] 0.0135 0.0134 0.131 0.0251 0.0107 -0.116 0.232 1.57 0.660 0.532 0.862 0.0235 0.522
EC-Earth3-CC [-] 0.209 0.219 0.131 0.00960 0.0906 0.896 2.57 0.669 0.406 0.542 0.539 0.512
NorESM2-LM [-] 0.138 0.141 0.131 0.0401 0.00438 0.299 1.65 0.694 0.497 0.824 0.745 0.651
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Period Mean (original grids) [%]
Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]
Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]
Model Period Mean (complement) [%]
Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]
Bias [%]
RMSE [%]
Phase Shift [months]
Bias Score [1]
RMSE Score [1]
Seasonal Cycle Score [1]
Spatial Distribution Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 0.0637
BGCLND [-] 0.0918 0.0981 0.0641 0.00701 0.00448 0.0340 0.275 2.34 0.780 0.593 0.642 0.545 0.630
BGCLNDATM_progCO2 [-] 0.0564 0.0598 0.0641 0.0111 0.00448 -0.00433 0.223 2.42 0.781 0.629 0.655 0.579 0.655
CNRM-ESM2-1 [-] 0.00362 0.00379 0.0637 0.00209 0.00464 -0.0596 0.130 2.38 0.778 0.658 0.699 0.00344 0.559
EC-Earth3-CC [-] 0.0154 0.0248 0.0637 0.00456 -0.0387 0.193 3.81 0.786 0.617 0.231 0.236 0.497
NorESM2-LM [-] 0.0726 0.0744 0.0637 0.0470 0.0148 0.220 2.21 0.783 0.627 0.765 0.567 0.674

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Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]
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BGCLND [-] 0.677 0.833 0.500 0.588 0.544
BGCLNDATM_progCO2 [-] 0.706 0.726 0.442 0.457 0.449
CNRM-ESM2-1 [-] 0.702 0.746 0.374 0.375 0.374
EC-Earth3-CC [-] 0.642 0.732 0.378 0.400 0.389
NorESM2-LM [-] 0.734 0.738 0.488 0.476 0.482
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Overall Score [1]
BGCLND [-] 0.826 0.917 0.327 0.673 0.500
BGCLNDATM_progCO2 [-] 0.844 0.843 0.171 0.472 0.321
CNRM-ESM2-1 [-] 0.786 0.836 0.412 0.446 0.429
EC-Earth3-CC [-] 0.818 0.754 0.394 0.425 0.410
NorESM2-LM [-] 0.685 0.794 0.196 0.733 0.465
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Overall Score [1]
BGCLND [-] 0.831 0.857 0.637 0.623 0.630
BGCLNDATM_progCO2 [-] 0.838 0.843 0.513 0.523 0.518
CNRM-ESM2-1 [-] 0.735 0.792 0.378 0.383 0.380
EC-Earth3-CC [-] 0.737 0.750 0.408 0.474 0.441
NorESM2-LM [-] 0.724 0.757 0.579 0.587 0.583
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Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]
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SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
BGCLND [-] 0.816 0.874 0.676 0.698 0.687
BGCLNDATM_progCO2 [-] 0.815 0.798 0.667 0.540 0.604
CNRM-ESM2-1 [-] 0.849 0.860 0.381 0.383 0.382
EC-Earth3-CC [-] 0.702 0.776 0.408 0.396 0.402
NorESM2-LM [-] 0.681 0.794 0.451 0.445 0.448
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Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]
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SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
BGCLND [-] 0.764 0.780 0.409 0.111 0.260
BGCLNDATM_progCO2 [-] 0.724 0.444 0.363 0.340 0.351
CNRM-ESM2-1 [-] 0.546 0.646 0.387 0.424 0.406
EC-Earth3-CC [-] 0.769 0.706 0.279 0.367 0.323
NorESM2-LM [-] 0.667 0.806 0.456 0.949 0.702
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Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]
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SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
BGCLND [-] 0.843 0.904 0.558 0.544 0.551
BGCLNDATM_progCO2 [-] 0.802 0.877 0.595 0.624 0.609
CNRM-ESM2-1 [-] 0.857 0.883 0.390 0.389 0.390
EC-Earth3-CC [-] 0.689 0.753 0.368 0.456 0.412
NorESM2-LM [-] 0.745 0.780 0.598 0.433 0.515

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Data Information

  Title:
GFED version 4.1 burned area fraction with small fires (GFED4.1s)

  Version:
4.1s

  Institutions:
VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Earth and Climate Cluster, Netherlands
Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, USA

  Source:
Satellite (MODIS Terra and Aqua) derived product

  History:
2019-03-13: downloaded source from https://www.geo.vu.nl/~gwerf/GFED/GFED4/
2019-05-07: converted to netCDF with https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-ba-gfed.py

  References:
van der Werf, G.R., J.T. Randerson, L. Giglio, T.T. van Leeuwen, Y. Chen, B.M. Rogers, M. Mu, M.J.E. van Marle, D.C. Morton, G.J. Collatz, R.J. Yokelson, and P.S. Kasibhatla (2017), Global fire emissions estimates during 1997-2016, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 697-720, doi:10.5194/essd-9-697-2017

Giglio, L., J.T. Randerson and G.R. van der Werf (2013), Analysis of daily, monthly, and annual burned area using the fourth-generation global fire emissions database (GFED4), J. of Geophys. Res.-Biogeosciences, 118(1), 317-328, doi:10.1002/jgrg.20042

Randerson, J.T., Y. Chen, G.R. van der Werf, B.M. Rogers and D.C. Morton (2012), Global burned area and biomass burning emissions from small fires, J. of Geophys. Res.-Biogeosciences, 117(G4), G04012, doi:10.1029/2012JG002128

  Comments:
time_period: 1997-01 through 2016-12
original_temporal_resolution: monthly
original_spatial_resolution: 0.25 degree
original_units: fractions
final_temporal_resolution: monthly
final_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree
final_units: %

  Convention:
CF-1.7