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

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	2.14
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	2.30	2.33	2.15	0.823	0.741		0.115	0.946	2.04		0.297	0.482	0.638	0.945	0.569
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	3.16	3.17	2.19	1.68	0.945		0.926	1.39	2.49		0.222	0.311	0.573	0.861	0.455
BGCLND	[-]	2.14	2.15	2.14	0.803	1.12		0.00420	1.00	2.44		0.294	0.454	0.586	0.902	0.538
BGCLNDATM_progCO2	[-]	2.81	2.83	2.14	0.473	1.12		0.687	1.42	2.41		0.233	0.475	0.612	0.685	0.496
CanESM5	[-]	3.28	3.36	2.14	2.46			1.18	1.65	3.12		0.224	0.344	0.473	0.844	0.446
CNRM-ESM2-1	[-]	1.69	1.63	2.15	1.92	0.810		-0.505	1.20	3.21		0.290	0.367	0.455	0.879	0.471
EC-Earth3-CC	[-]	1.97	3.64	2.14	0.00292			1.50	1.78	2.25		0.177	0.480	0.627	0.936	0.540
MeanCMIP6	[-]	3.16	3.11	2.14	1.85			0.947	1.22	2.52		0.257	0.439	0.565	0.939	0.528
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	2.74	2.80	2.14	3.01	0.471		0.660	1.23	2.56		0.288	0.539	0.487	0.939	0.558
MPI-ESM1-2-LR	[-]	2.54	2.42	2.18	1.86	1.54		0.243	1.34	2.62		0.260	0.288	0.520	0.927	0.457
MRI-ESM2-0	[-]	5.13	5.13	2.19	4.71	0.908		2.85	3.07	3.59		0.103	0.515	0.360	0.520	0.403
NorESM2-LM	[-]	1.92	1.80	2.14	1.98			-0.330	1.07	2.96		0.304	0.478	0.521	0.910	0.538
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	3.25	3.18	2.15	2.37	1.33		1.03	1.40	2.77		0.290	0.520	0.513	0.893	0.547

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	3.87
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	2.65	2.89	3.88	1.08	3.73		-1.76	2.04	2.69		0.150	0.687	0.536	0.916	0.595
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	5.05	5.21	3.90	3.76	3.57		0.486	2.08	2.66		0.157	0.568	0.554	0.623	0.494
BGCLND	[-]	4.33	4.50	3.89	2.11	3.49		0.607	1.74	3.01		0.248	0.682	0.498	0.887	0.599
BGCLNDATM_progCO2	[-]	4.95	5.17	3.89	2.04	3.49		1.28	2.53	2.86		0.138	0.687	0.523	0.619	0.531
CanESM5	[-]	5.47	5.78	3.86	4.99			1.40	1.79	3.06		0.225	0.681	0.497	0.944	0.605
CNRM-ESM2-1	[-]	4.22	4.24	3.89	4.01	3.18		0.304	0.940	3.31		0.447	0.668	0.466	0.960	0.642
EC-Earth3-CC	[-]	1.06	3.22	3.87	0.0124			-0.661	2.49	2.70		0.130	0.650	0.548	0.497	0.495
MeanCMIP6	[-]	4.82	5.04	3.87	3.67			0.770	1.23	2.66		0.354	0.696	0.551	0.966	0.653
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	3.89	3.72	3.87	4.35	3.57		0.135	1.43	3.03		0.332	0.682	0.521	0.824	0.608
MPI-ESM1-2-LR	[-]	4.88	4.97	4.12	3.83	3.67		0.841	1.17	2.85		0.359	0.637	0.537	0.961	0.626
MRI-ESM2-0	[-]	9.43	9.60	3.92	7.90	3.48		5.05	5.23	3.14		0.0306	0.716	0.483	0.677	0.525
NorESM2-LM	[-]	4.72	4.78	3.87	4.38			0.605	1.18	3.24		0.418	0.687	0.460	0.972	0.645
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	5.46	5.50	3.87	5.23	3.89		1.54	1.59	2.51		0.281	0.719	0.587	0.601	0.582

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.23
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	1.17	1.31	1.22	0.108	1.62		0.0355	0.850	1.78		0.278	0.489	0.705	0.905	0.573
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	1.48	1.63	1.22	0.230	1.45		0.386	0.902	1.80		0.302	0.423	0.696	0.874	0.544
BGCLND	[-]	1.30	1.45	1.23	0.0989	1.20		0.220	0.795	2.04		0.364	0.484	0.647	0.875	0.570
BGCLNDATM_progCO2	[-]	1.41	1.56	1.23	0.0872	1.20		0.339	0.926	2.06		0.299	0.461	0.648	0.771	0.528
CanESM5	[-]	1.34	1.46	1.23	0.410			0.290	0.949	2.15		0.292	0.437	0.624	0.844	0.527
CNRM-ESM2-1	[-]	1.22	1.33	1.22	0.287	1.51		0.145	0.715	2.02		0.408	0.455	0.621	0.946	0.577
EC-Earth3-CC	[-]	1.58	1.88	1.23	0.0281			0.654	1.20	1.78		0.227	0.466	0.695	0.811	0.533
MeanCMIP6	[-]	1.58	1.74	1.23	0.360			0.549	0.816	1.75		0.330	0.516	0.695	0.937	0.599
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	1.22	1.31	1.22	0.488	1.84		0.143	0.783	2.22		0.337	0.558	0.644	0.899	0.599
MPI-ESM1-2-LR	[-]	1.41	1.54	1.19	0.260	1.58		0.354	0.901	1.78		0.322	0.400	0.674	0.923	0.544
MRI-ESM2-0	[-]	2.28	2.50	1.22	0.435	1.63		1.34	1.75	2.06		0.180	0.504	0.625	0.497	0.462
NorESM2-LM	[-]	1.36	1.47	1.23	0.414			0.296	0.962	2.21		0.321	0.497	0.612	0.872	0.560
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	2.44	2.43	1.24	2.98	0.721		1.25	1.42	1.87		0.234	0.559	0.703	0.836	0.578

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.788
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	1.08	1.12	0.794	0.331	0.410		0.252	0.807	1.49		0.508	0.400	0.860	0.635	0.561
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	1.22	1.25	0.795	0.652	0.451		0.403	0.868	1.53		0.444	0.494	0.860	0.488	0.556
BGCLND	[-]	0.981	1.00	0.796	0.204	0.449		0.203	0.765	1.74		0.543	0.439	0.815	0.656	0.578
BGCLNDATM_progCO2	[-]	0.752	0.766	0.796	0.177	0.449		-0.0305	0.653	1.96		0.589	0.452	0.788	0.781	0.613
CanESM5	[-]	0.958	0.979	0.788	0.585			0.141	0.843	1.63		0.446	0.462	0.857	0.428	0.531
CNRM-ESM2-1	[-]	0.986	0.998	0.789	0.702	0.394		0.181	0.624	1.30		0.716	0.478	0.879	0.956	0.701
EC-Earth3-CC	[-]	0.468	0.797	0.788	0.00290			0.00572	0.724	1.36		0.448	0.518	0.888	0.545	0.583
MeanCMIP6	[-]	1.39	1.41	0.790	0.904			0.586	0.853	1.26		0.459	0.558	0.909	0.699	0.637
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	0.747	0.776	0.789	0.390	0.326		-0.0513	0.638	1.43		0.534	0.538	0.847	0.638	0.619
MPI-ESM1-2-LR	[-]	1.25	1.26	0.813	0.801	0.523		0.454	0.851	1.11		0.537	0.463	0.929	0.736	0.625
MRI-ESM2-0	[-]	1.67	1.69	0.793	1.70	0.488		0.914	1.48	0.658		0.375	0.357	0.965	0.268	0.465
NorESM2-LM	[-]	1.18	1.18	0.788	0.591			0.326	1.00	2.23		0.417	0.410	0.751	0.463	0.490
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	1.90	1.90	0.847	1.97	0.175		1.07	1.33	1.29		0.334	0.501	0.899	0.490	0.545

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	4.43
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	3.02	3.04	4.44	1.19	2.70		-1.50	1.84	2.79		0.0863	0.541	0.494	0.920	0.516
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	4.65	4.66	4.44	2.35	3.25		0.126	1.43	2.98		0.180	0.361	0.487	0.940	0.466
BGCLND	[-]	4.58	4.60	4.44	2.65	1.51		0.161	1.10	3.07		0.305	0.509	0.472	0.974	0.554
BGCLNDATM_progCO2	[-]	5.89	5.92	4.44	2.17	1.51		1.48	1.97	3.12		0.114	0.403	0.464	0.836	0.444
CanESM5	[-]	2.93	2.89	4.43	2.47			-1.58	2.04	3.19		0.116	0.432	0.433	0.940	0.470
CNRM-ESM2-1	[-]	3.71	3.72	4.44	2.83	2.05		-0.745	1.15	3.25		0.227	0.447	0.467	0.972	0.512
EC-Earth3-CC	[-]	4.63	4.84	4.43	0.0869			0.404	1.73	2.84		0.149	0.417	0.499	0.886	0.474
MeanCMIP6	[-]	4.33	4.34	4.43	2.87			-0.157	1.07	3.05		0.248	0.435	0.461	0.905	0.497
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	4.26	4.28	4.43	4.12	3.40		-0.157	1.06	2.63		0.232	0.660	0.595	0.891	0.608
MPI-ESM1-2-LR	[-]	3.87	3.88	4.53	1.57	2.49		-0.649	1.72	2.97		0.195	0.279	0.490	0.928	0.434
MRI-ESM2-0	[-]	7.83	7.85	4.44	4.22	3.52		3.33	3.88	3.08		0.0336	0.661	0.534	0.574	0.493
NorESM2-LM	[-]	4.32	4.33	4.43	3.99			-0.134	1.17	3.01		0.203	0.613	0.498	0.802	0.546
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	5.46	5.46	4.46	4.56	1.47		0.964	1.23	2.74		0.250	0.668	0.552	0.859	0.600

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [1]		Bias [1]	RMSE [1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.850
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	1.30	1.32	0.851	0.496	0.792		0.420	0.885	1.53		0.461	0.405	0.852	0.665	0.558
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	1.36	1.38	0.851	1.01	0.772		0.509	0.927	1.30		0.436	0.487	0.873	0.558	0.568
BGCLND	[-]	1.02	1.04	0.852	0.228	0.729		0.193	0.741	1.67		0.546	0.450	0.828	0.687	0.592
BGCLNDATM_progCO2	[-]	0.842	0.862	0.852	0.192	0.729		0.0101	0.681	1.65		0.574	0.453	0.832	0.797	0.622
CanESM5	[-]	1.05	1.03	0.850	1.40			0.200	0.837	1.58		0.488	0.452	0.854	0.468	0.543
CNRM-ESM2-1	[-]	1.13	1.12	0.850	1.25	0.712		0.291	0.672	1.19		0.648	0.466	0.870	0.946	0.679
EC-Earth3-CC	[-]	0.703	1.21	0.850	0.00619			0.356	0.930	1.26		0.418	0.484	0.883	0.555	0.565
MeanCMIP6	[-]	1.42	1.43	0.852	1.32			0.589	0.833	1.21		0.477	0.555	0.902	0.798	0.658
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	0.924	0.910	0.850	1.04	0.724		0.0796	0.741	1.69		0.512	0.519	0.819	0.617	0.597
MPI-ESM1-2-LR	[-]	1.32	1.32	0.845	1.20	0.915		0.479	0.849	1.00		0.535	0.479	0.923	0.895	0.662
MRI-ESM2-0	[-]	1.97	1.97	0.851	2.48	0.780		1.21	1.69	0.790		0.320	0.353	0.933	0.251	0.442
NorESM2-LM	[-]	1.32	1.30	0.850	1.38			0.456	1.07	1.52		0.440	0.410	0.827	0.500	0.517
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	2.05	2.05	0.856	2.71	0.580		1.25	1.45	1.20		0.288	0.505	0.907	0.555	0.552

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

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	0.661		0.701	0.701
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	0.673		0.590	0.590
BGCLND	[-]	0.633		0.625	0.625
BGCLNDATM_progCO2	[-]	0.554		0.607	0.607
CanESM5	[-]	0.690		0.640	0.640
CNRM-ESM2-1	[-]	0.602		0.677	0.677
EC-Earth3-CC	[-]	0.573		0.690	0.690
MeanCMIP6	[-]	0.651		0.634	0.634
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	0.638		0.688	0.688
MPI-ESM1-2-LR	[-]	0.597		0.468	0.468
MRI-ESM2-0	[-]	0.614		0.194	0.194
NorESM2-LM	[-]	0.583		0.652	0.652
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	0.641		0.448	0.448

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	0.704		0.486	0.486
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	0.811		0.713	0.713
BGCLND	[-]	0.704		0.800	0.800
BGCLNDATM_progCO2	[-]	0.689		0.657	0.657
CanESM5	[-]	0.691		0.642	0.642
CNRM-ESM2-1	[-]	0.736		0.805	0.805
EC-Earth3-CC	[-]	0.616		0.465	0.465
MeanCMIP6	[-]	0.666		0.691	0.691
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	0.667		0.832	0.832
MPI-ESM1-2-LR	[-]	0.688		0.638	0.638
MRI-ESM2-0	[-]	0.584		0.343	0.343
NorESM2-LM	[-]	0.732		0.650	0.650
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	0.742		0.635	0.635

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	0.633		0.722	0.722
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	0.679		0.842	0.842
BGCLND	[-]	0.687		0.792	0.792
BGCLNDATM_progCO2	[-]	0.681		0.729	0.729
CanESM5	[-]	0.649		0.760	0.760
CNRM-ESM2-1	[-]	0.721		0.803	0.803
EC-Earth3-CC	[-]	0.520		0.846	0.846
MeanCMIP6	[-]	0.654		0.778	0.778
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	0.639		0.873	0.873
MPI-ESM1-2-LR	[-]	0.659		0.673	0.673
MRI-ESM2-0	[-]	0.588		0.325	0.325
NorESM2-LM	[-]	0.635		0.804	0.804
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	0.393		0.515	0.515

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	0.621		0.649	0.649
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	0.643		0.527	0.527
BGCLND	[-]	0.691		0.684	0.684
BGCLNDATM_progCO2	[-]	0.645		0.735	0.735
CanESM5	[-]	0.512		0.661	0.661
CNRM-ESM2-1	[-]	0.748		0.740	0.740
EC-Earth3-CC	[-]	0.469		0.521	0.521
MeanCMIP6	[-]	0.570		0.722	0.722
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	0.635		0.319	0.319
MPI-ESM1-2-LR	[-]	0.686		0.516	0.516
MRI-ESM2-0	[-]	0.638		0.122	0.122
NorESM2-LM	[-]	0.498		0.645	0.645
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	0.542		0.0829	0.0829

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	0.611		0.706	0.706
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	0.683		0.695	0.695
BGCLND	[-]	0.596		0.850	0.850
BGCLNDATM_progCO2	[-]	0.633		0.630	0.630
CanESM5	[-]	0.559		0.815	0.815
CNRM-ESM2-1	[-]	0.608		0.785	0.785
EC-Earth3-CC	[-]	0.609		0.720	0.720
MeanCMIP6	[-]	0.592		0.823	0.823
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	0.572		0.783	0.783
MPI-ESM1-2-LR	[-]	0.582		0.793	0.793
MRI-ESM2-0	[-]	0.579		0.452	0.452
NorESM2-LM	[-]	0.566		0.781	0.781
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	0.704		0.683	0.683

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	0.610		0.704	0.704
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	0.663		0.567	0.567
BGCLND	[-]	0.696		0.724	0.724
BGCLNDATM_progCO2	[-]	0.656		0.819	0.819
CanESM5	[-]	0.514		0.664	0.664
CNRM-ESM2-1	[-]	0.693		0.685	0.685
EC-Earth3-CC	[-]	0.423		0.522	0.522
MeanCMIP6	[-]	0.519		0.609	0.609
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	0.642		0.629	0.629
MPI-ESM1-2-LR	[-]	0.610		0.692	0.692
MRI-ESM2-0	[-]	0.613		0.190	0.190
NorESM2-LM	[-]	0.493		0.599	0.599
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	0.563		0.187	0.187

Equatorial Africa Equatorial Asia Global - Land High Latitude South America - Amazon Temperate Latitudes 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 Relationship with Precipitation Relationship with func_Precipitation

  Title:

NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of AVHRR Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR), AVH15C1

  Version:

5

  Institutions:

Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), NASA, USA

University of Maryland (UMD), USA

Climate Data Record (CDR), NOAA, USA

National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

  Source:

This daily gridded Leaf Area Index (LAI) derived from the NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Surface Reflectance.

  History:

2019-08-23: downloaded source from https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/gov.noaa.ncdc:C01559/html

2019-09-12: converted to netCDF with https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-lai-avh15c1.py

  References:

Vermote, Eric (2019), NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of AVHRR Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) Version 5, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, , , doi:10.7289/V5TT4P69

Claverie, M., Matthews, J., Vermote, E., and Justice, C. (2016), A 30+ Year AVHRR LAI and FAPAR Climate Data Record: Algorithm Description and Validation, Remote Sensing, 8, 263, doi:10.3390/rs8030263

  Comments:

time_period: 1981-01 through 2019-12

original_temporal_resolution: daily

original_spatial_resolution: 0.05 degree

original_units: 1

final_temporal_resolution: monthly

final_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree

final_units: 1

  Convention:

CF-1.7