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) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.09
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	0.932	0.953	1.09	0.706	1.13		-0.133	0.464	0.410		0.791	0.622	0.967	0.989	0.798
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	0.876	0.903	1.09	0.531	1.13		-0.183	0.541	0.461		0.761	0.577	0.962	0.951	0.765
CLM-Princeton	[-]	0.785	0.803	1.09	0.574	1.13		-0.283	0.498	0.354		0.696	0.640	0.968	0.987	0.786
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	0.980	1.00	1.09	0.753	0.899		-0.0833	0.544	0.387		0.825	0.550	0.966	0.989	0.776
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	0.931	0.962	1.09	0.608	0.899		-0.124	0.646	0.507		0.790	0.497	0.956	0.952	0.738
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	0.799	0.819	1.09	0.612	0.895		-0.268	0.520	0.297		0.707	0.619	0.970	0.990	0.781
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	1.67	1.75	1.09	0.952	1.09		0.200	0.663	0.532		0.710	0.509	0.957	0.711	0.679
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	1.09	1.13	1.09	0.649	1.09		0.0427	0.735	0.636		0.765	0.449	0.949	0.775	0.677
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	1.42	1.47	1.09	0.654	1.09		0.111	0.553	0.309		0.746	0.570	0.971	0.738	0.719
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	1.04	1.08	1.09	0.799			-0.00966	0.470	0.377		0.821	0.598	0.969	0.982	0.794
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	0.947	0.994	1.09	0.626			-0.0929	0.582	0.501		0.806	0.532	0.960	0.944	0.755
Mean-Princeton	[-]	0.901	0.937	1.09	0.671			-0.150	0.414	0.221		0.796	0.655	0.979	0.989	0.815

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.56
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	1.49	1.58	1.56	0.851	2.44		0.0227	0.733	1.47		0.585	0.428	0.739	0.971	0.630
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	1.43	1.52	1.56	0.789	2.44		-0.0327	0.774	1.43		0.563	0.413	0.775	0.965	0.626
CLM-Princeton	[-]	1.34	1.41	1.56	0.784	2.44		-0.144	0.804	1.49		0.498	0.433	0.747	0.930	0.608
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	1.62	1.80	1.56	1.07	2.57		0.247	0.766	1.18		0.585	0.421	0.803	0.965	0.639
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	1.53	1.72	1.56	0.980	2.57		0.158	0.818	1.22		0.590	0.380	0.809	0.974	0.627
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	1.38	1.52	1.56	0.960	2.57		-0.0426	0.794	1.28		0.522	0.422	0.778	0.961	0.621
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	2.40	2.84	1.51	0.576	2.32		0.521	0.976	1.23		0.448	0.378	0.813	0.896	0.582
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	1.76	1.96	1.51	0.615	2.32		0.441	1.01	1.38		0.483	0.326	0.781	0.910	0.565
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	2.22	2.63	1.51	0.509	2.32		0.414	0.898	1.21		0.517	0.390	0.805	0.920	0.604
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	1.63	1.81	1.56	1.12	1.54		0.253	0.701	1.18		0.600	0.452	0.813	0.975	0.658
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	1.55	1.74	1.56	1.04	1.54		0.179	0.752	1.23		0.611	0.412	0.808	0.979	0.645
Mean-Princeton	[-]	1.47	1.62	1.56	1.03	1.53		0.0636	0.689	1.21		0.574	0.463	0.797	0.978	0.655

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.531
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	0.614	0.950	0.524	0.238	1.18		0.427	0.775	1.90		0.476	0.346	0.756	0.934	0.572
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	0.592	0.940	0.524	0.205	1.18		0.417	0.770	1.93		0.478	0.337	0.751	0.937	0.568
CLM-Princeton	[-]	0.555	0.881	0.529	0.194	1.18		0.352	0.735	1.92		0.510	0.336	0.757	0.936	0.575
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	0.672	1.01	0.525	0.286	1.90		0.492	0.851	1.57		0.447	0.322	0.799	0.900	0.558
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	0.647	1.00	0.525	0.241	1.90		0.482	0.896	1.54		0.450	0.296	0.818	0.896	0.551
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	0.618	0.954	0.530	0.233	1.91		0.430	0.831	1.61		0.474	0.313	0.805	0.896	0.560
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	0.680	1.13	0.510	0.168	0.969		0.515	0.954	1.59		0.422	0.266	0.783	0.849	0.517
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	0.634	1.03	0.510	0.180	0.969		0.523	0.946	1.67		0.421	0.274	0.785	0.857	0.522
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	0.631	1.07	0.510	0.139	0.969		0.443	0.894	1.64		0.450	0.271	0.789	0.855	0.527
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	0.654	0.997	0.526	0.281	0.323		0.470	0.794	1.65		0.452	0.354	0.789	0.931	0.576
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	0.633	0.992	0.526	0.240	0.323		0.465	0.804	1.65		0.453	0.344	0.800	0.935	0.575
Mean-Princeton	[-]	0.600	0.935	0.532	0.234	0.311		0.403	0.749	1.63		0.481	0.353	0.803	0.934	0.585

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.532
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	0.549	0.637	0.532	0.401	0.856		0.112	0.679	3.16		0.545	0.153	0.535	0.898	0.456
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	0.508	0.624	0.532	0.308	0.856		0.101	0.671	3.00		0.530	0.158	0.563	0.853	0.452
CLM-Princeton	[-]	0.507	0.603	0.532	0.340	0.855		0.0774	0.693	3.12		0.545	0.148	0.541	0.895	0.455
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	0.560	0.655	0.532	0.377			0.118	0.622	2.47		0.535	0.182	0.655	0.936	0.498
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	0.507	0.625	0.532	0.270			0.0881	0.647	2.33		0.543	0.173	0.675	0.866	0.486
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	0.503	0.602	0.532	0.306			0.0639	0.649	2.53		0.544	0.169	0.646	0.923	0.490
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	0.854	0.754	0.525	0.930	0.784		0.0904	0.530	2.51		0.544	0.215	0.642	0.949	0.513
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	0.493	0.615	0.525	0.247	0.784		0.0836	0.579	2.47		0.539	0.190	0.653	0.914	0.497
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	0.818	0.712	0.525	0.901	0.784		0.0572	0.547	2.58		0.550	0.206	0.626	0.942	0.506
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	0.549	0.634	0.532	0.379	0.670		0.102	0.550	2.70		0.550	0.214	0.621	0.959	0.512
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	0.506	0.618	0.532	0.279	0.670		0.0861	0.572	2.49		0.553	0.201	0.654	0.941	0.510
Mean-Princeton	[-]	0.499	0.592	0.532	0.313	0.660		0.0595	0.566	2.76		0.554	0.203	0.608	0.952	0.504

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.94
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	1.81	1.97	1.97	1.46	1.31		0.0134	0.540	1.34		0.570	0.446	0.738	0.986	0.637
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	1.60	1.75	1.97	1.14	1.31		-0.218	0.563	1.18		0.588	0.443	0.787	0.975	0.647
CLM-Princeton	[-]	1.42	1.56	1.97	1.15	1.31		-0.411	0.621	1.30		0.438	0.486	0.781	0.963	0.631
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	2.09	2.28	1.94	2.14	1.42		0.374	0.728	1.43		0.459	0.410	0.701	0.936	0.583
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	1.71	1.85	1.94	1.81	1.42		-0.0657	0.634	1.20		0.563	0.413	0.771	0.967	0.626
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	1.49	1.56	1.94	1.67	1.41		-0.360	0.778	1.46		0.406	0.435	0.729	0.966	0.594
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	4.16	4.19	2.01	2.79	1.69		1.19	1.45	1.67		0.189	0.284	0.676	0.915	0.470
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	2.27	2.56	2.01	1.93	1.69		0.548	1.18	1.57		0.342	0.258	0.675	0.860	0.479
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	3.10	3.37	2.01	1.94	1.69		0.748	1.06	1.62		0.298	0.336	0.735	0.975	0.536
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	2.36	2.39	1.94	2.15			0.454	0.730	1.36		0.447	0.428	0.725	0.978	0.601
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	2.02	2.01	1.94	1.83			0.0682	0.609	1.18		0.549	0.427	0.767	0.976	0.629
Mean-Princeton	[-]	1.88	1.86	1.94	1.76			-0.0726	0.589	1.31		0.512	0.460	0.772	0.960	0.633

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.65
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	1.53	1.52	1.65	1.60	1.57		-0.133	0.523	0.511		0.780	0.644	0.947	0.976	0.798
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	1.43	1.43	1.65	1.44	1.57		-0.226	0.591	0.524		0.733	0.625	0.944	0.975	0.780
CLM-Princeton	[-]	1.35	1.34	1.65	1.42	1.57		-0.308	0.602	0.511		0.696	0.631	0.942	0.954	0.771
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	1.80	1.80	1.65	1.91	1.87		0.145	0.665	0.609		0.745	0.568	0.939	0.902	0.745
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	1.70	1.70	1.65	1.74	1.87		0.0539	0.703	0.640		0.740	0.555	0.935	0.923	0.741
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	1.56	1.55	1.65	1.65	1.87		-0.0990	0.626	0.535		0.750	0.588	0.941	0.962	0.766
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	3.01	2.94	1.64	2.68	1.81		0.603	1.04	0.812		0.543	0.484	0.916	0.731	0.631
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	2.16	2.15	1.64	2.33	1.81		0.507	0.999	0.761		0.589	0.484	0.915	0.798	0.654
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	2.80	2.75	1.64	2.52	1.81		0.548	0.952	0.652		0.564	0.514	0.928	0.758	0.656
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	1.83	1.84	1.65	1.91	1.54		0.190	0.596	0.592		0.751	0.607	0.943	0.948	0.771
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	1.73	1.75	1.65	1.74	1.54		0.0966	0.626	0.587		0.754	0.594	0.939	0.967	0.770
Mean-Princeton	[-]	1.66	1.68	1.65	1.70	1.54		0.0293	0.535	0.479		0.788	0.626	0.949	0.975	0.793

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	3.66
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	3.38	3.37	3.66	3.55	3.95		-0.287	0.740	3.49		0.366	0.266	0.409	0.967	0.455
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	3.25	3.24	3.66	3.50	3.95		-0.418	0.746	2.18		0.324	0.280	0.675	0.894	0.491
CLM-Princeton	[-]	2.74	2.70	3.65	3.37	3.95		-0.959	1.15	2.32		0.124	0.355	0.636	0.992	0.493
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	4.25	4.24	3.66	4.20	3.70		0.575	0.872	3.23		0.343	0.267	0.466	0.961	0.461
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	4.01	3.93	3.66	4.25	3.70		0.268	0.800	1.90		0.439	0.219	0.716	0.837	0.486
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	2.99	2.84	3.66	4.04	3.71		-0.824	1.12	2.15		0.161	0.321	0.660	0.815	0.456
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	4.82	4.85	3.64	5.30	3.78		1.21	1.36	2.91		0.0931	0.280	0.528	0.991	0.434
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	4.49	4.50	3.64	5.09	3.78		0.851	1.26	1.94		0.240	0.154	0.710	0.717	0.395
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	4.05	4.08	3.64	4.59	3.78		0.526	0.786	1.85		0.409	0.328	0.718	0.972	0.551
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	4.10	4.10	3.66	4.15			0.439	0.755	3.12		0.401	0.289	0.492	0.984	0.491
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	3.87	3.86	3.66	4.19			0.196	0.683	1.88		0.537	0.260	0.719	0.973	0.550
Mean-Princeton	[-]	3.29	3.19	3.66	4.08			-0.471	0.814	2.19		0.265	0.364	0.652	0.966	0.522

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	2.56
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	2.60	2.57	2.55	2.93	3.42		0.0217	0.999	2.07		0.513	0.376	0.653	0.839	0.551
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	2.52	2.48	2.55	2.94	3.42		-0.0613	1.04	2.04		0.500	0.362	0.683	0.853	0.552
CLM-Princeton	[-]	2.37	2.33	2.55	2.81	3.42		-0.220	1.15	2.30		0.421	0.369	0.629	0.714	0.501
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	3.03	2.98	2.55	3.41	3.14		0.426	0.972	1.46		0.532	0.396	0.767	0.975	0.614
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	2.84	2.80	2.55	3.21	3.14		0.253	1.02	1.69		0.535	0.347	0.732	0.976	0.587
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	2.56	2.49	2.56	3.19	3.14		-0.0670	1.07	2.00		0.459	0.367	0.674	0.808	0.535
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	3.53	3.51	2.50	3.72	3.12		0.921	1.39	1.43		0.366	0.349	0.783	0.977	0.565
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	3.35	3.32	2.50	3.75	3.12		0.816	1.44	1.99		0.406	0.279	0.685	0.982	0.526
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	3.36	3.33	2.50	3.48	3.12		0.779	1.32	1.71		0.439	0.340	0.723	0.981	0.565
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	3.03	2.98	2.55	3.35	2.79		0.430	0.930	1.39		0.545	0.420	0.783	0.955	0.625
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	2.92	2.86	2.55	3.27	2.79		0.313	0.981	1.70		0.551	0.372	0.730	0.947	0.594
Mean-Princeton	[-]	2.76	2.69	2.56	3.22	2.77		0.138	0.960	1.76		0.509	0.409	0.711	0.839	0.576

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.852
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	0.816	0.653	0.851	0.258	0.750		-0.199	0.460	0.402		0.766	0.609	0.973	0.988	0.789
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	0.805	0.619	0.851	0.123	0.750		-0.233	0.561	0.543		0.733	0.552	0.961	0.975	0.755
CLM-Princeton	[-]	0.759	0.573	0.852	0.237	0.744		-0.279	0.459	0.380		0.700	0.642	0.974	0.988	0.789
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	0.537	0.693	0.851	0.219	0.741		-0.157	0.468	0.393		0.810	0.581	0.973	0.979	0.785
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	0.493	0.665	0.851	0.141	0.741		-0.186	0.573	0.505		0.780	0.516	0.964	0.959	0.747
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	0.464	0.574	0.852	0.241	0.737		-0.276	0.459	0.331		0.700	0.637	0.977	0.990	0.788
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	0.564	0.749	0.854	0.283	0.741		-0.0131	0.474	0.516		0.840	0.565	0.960	0.870	0.760
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	0.568	0.707	0.854	0.0722	0.741		-0.147	0.572	0.602		0.780	0.523	0.956	0.880	0.732
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	0.462	0.645	0.854	0.190	0.741		-0.0882	0.442	0.365		0.825	0.595	0.973	0.837	0.765
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	0.568	0.725	0.851	0.264			-0.126	0.383	0.382		0.828	0.643	0.974	0.984	0.815
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	0.480	0.661	0.851	0.126			-0.190	0.514	0.484		0.772	0.565	0.966	0.979	0.769
Mean-Princeton	[-]	0.505	0.635	0.852	0.254			-0.216	0.386	0.311		0.757	0.673	0.979	0.983	0.813

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.10
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	1.19	1.18	1.10	1.19	1.52		0.0858	0.757	1.13		0.663	0.363	0.883	0.976	0.650
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	1.18	1.17	1.10	1.13	1.52		0.0688	0.779	1.12		0.644	0.358	0.880	0.968	0.642
CLM-Princeton	[-]	1.13	1.12	1.10	1.13	1.52		0.0188	0.774	1.15		0.656	0.356	0.876	0.961	0.641
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	1.33	1.32	1.10	1.32	1.39		0.213	0.751	0.932		0.606	0.370	0.911	0.951	0.642
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	1.31	1.30	1.10	1.21	1.39		0.196	0.798	0.972		0.602	0.354	0.906	0.950	0.633
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	1.24	1.23	1.10	1.22	1.39		0.123	0.745	0.938		0.634	0.370	0.908	0.969	0.650
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	1.67	1.68	1.08	1.35	1.46		0.262	0.785	1.03		0.563	0.327	0.891	0.909	0.603
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	1.39	1.40	1.08	1.06	1.46		0.318	0.867	1.04		0.527	0.317	0.885	0.901	0.589
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	1.67	1.66	1.08	1.33	1.46		0.231	0.772	0.993		0.576	0.337	0.892	0.913	0.611
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	1.30	1.28	1.10	1.32	1.26		0.186	0.670	0.944		0.625	0.404	0.910	0.974	0.664
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	1.30	1.29	1.10	1.23	1.26		0.191	0.728	0.950		0.613	0.384	0.905	0.976	0.653
Mean-Princeton	[-]	1.23	1.22	1.10	1.24	1.25		0.122	0.656	0.931		0.650	0.411	0.909	0.979	0.672

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	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	0.711	0.736		0.767	0.863	0.815
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	0.675	0.661		0.632	0.768	0.700
CLM-Princeton	[-]	0.529	0.486		0.671	0.730	0.701
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	0.717	0.821		0.813	0.808	0.810
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	0.729	0.738		0.684	0.805	0.745
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	0.553	0.515		0.691	0.735	0.713
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	0.571	0.691		0.757	0.782	0.769
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	0.661	0.727		0.725	0.804	0.764
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	0.620	0.742		0.749	0.831	0.790
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	0.726	0.862		0.809	0.863	0.836
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	0.724	0.763		0.659	0.814	0.736
Mean-Princeton	[-]	0.670	0.687		0.730	0.798	0.764

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	0.676	0.707		0.920	0.861	0.891
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	0.717	0.678		0.893	0.817	0.855
CLM-Princeton	[-]	0.682	0.603		0.836	0.782	0.809
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	0.636	0.747		0.838	0.857	0.848
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	0.696	0.733		0.897	0.847	0.872
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	0.648	0.641		0.889	0.817	0.853
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	0.517	0.716		0.659	0.837	0.748
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	0.598	0.702		0.741	0.816	0.778
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	0.540	0.710		0.717	0.847	0.782
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	0.624	0.758		0.848	0.874	0.861
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	0.679	0.732		0.906	0.847	0.877
Mean-Princeton	[-]	0.643	0.680		0.913	0.842	0.877

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	0.504	0.673		0.502	0.752	0.627
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	0.481	0.639		0.503	0.760	0.632
CLM-Princeton	[-]	0.474	0.631		0.496	0.769	0.633
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	0.463	0.682		0.401	0.744	0.572
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	0.474	0.637		0.446	0.735	0.590
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	0.485	0.643		0.437	0.799	0.618
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	0.502	0.665		0.360	0.791	0.575
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	0.477	0.633		0.353	0.766	0.560
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	0.492	0.642		0.363	0.813	0.588
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	0.554	0.678		0.434	0.681	0.558
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	0.504	0.647		0.424	0.683	0.554
Mean-Princeton	[-]	0.468	0.648		0.432	0.712	0.572

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	0.606	0.691		0.657	0.727	0.692
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	0.549	0.691		0.630	0.647	0.639
CLM-Princeton	[-]	0.562	0.666		0.650	0.681	0.666
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	0.538	0.696		0.637	0.735	0.686
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	0.547	0.703		0.621	0.653	0.637
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	0.524	0.654		0.629	0.703	0.666
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	0.567	0.696		0.649	0.749	0.699
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	0.539	0.679		0.627	0.622	0.625
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	0.503	0.641		0.643	0.701	0.672
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	0.532	0.684		0.637	0.745	0.691
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	0.572	0.698		0.629	0.645	0.637
Mean-Princeton	[-]	0.543	0.660		0.648	0.695	0.671

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	0.734	0.749		0.752	0.889	0.820
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	0.759	0.630		0.710	0.711	0.710
CLM-Princeton	[-]	0.839	0.626		0.726	0.754	0.740
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	0.782	0.643		0.544	0.799	0.672
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	0.771	0.729		0.717	0.818	0.768
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	0.850	0.705		0.635	0.764	0.700
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	0.807	0.716		0.350	0.632	0.491
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	0.772	0.639		0.608	0.793	0.701
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	0.797	0.656		0.469	0.762	0.616
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	0.851	0.701		0.613	0.833	0.723
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	0.733	0.671		0.696	0.833	0.765
Mean-Princeton	[-]	0.663	0.720		0.758	0.855	0.807

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	0.716	0.801		0.873	0.923	0.898
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	0.729	0.679		0.805	0.865	0.835
CLM-Princeton	[-]	0.672	0.549		0.784	0.816	0.800
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	0.591	0.741		0.840	0.850	0.845
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	0.686	0.787		0.888	0.915	0.902
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	0.659	0.739		0.901	0.926	0.913
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	0.530	0.571		0.538	0.655	0.596
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	0.503	0.557		0.687	0.696	0.691
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	0.532	0.573		0.581	0.676	0.628
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	0.570	0.731		0.830	0.863	0.847
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	0.670	0.794		0.896	0.930	0.913
Mean-Princeton	[-]	0.641	0.822		0.900	0.955	0.928

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	0.520	0.486		0.900	0.855	0.877
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	0.517	0.447		0.887	0.902	0.894
CLM-Princeton	[-]	0.610	0.286		0.767	0.792	0.779
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	0.624	0.692		0.857	0.849	0.853
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	0.689	0.735		0.911	0.920	0.915
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	0.632	0.349		0.809	0.810	0.810
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	0.827	0.553		0.724	0.731	0.727
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	0.629	0.567		0.764	0.807	0.786
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	0.667	0.648		0.866	0.879	0.873
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	0.686	0.692		0.902	0.867	0.884
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	0.772	0.826		0.943	0.937	0.940
Mean-Princeton	[-]	0.543	0.429		0.886	0.871	0.878

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	0.626	0.679		0.888	0.915	0.901
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	0.676	0.692		0.896	0.968	0.932
CLM-Princeton	[-]	0.623	0.617		0.831	0.918	0.874
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	0.688	0.780		0.830	0.820	0.825
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	0.703	0.761		0.872	0.885	0.879
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	0.652	0.684		0.864	0.957	0.911
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	0.549	0.737		0.683	0.733	0.708
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	0.590	0.744		0.718	0.737	0.728
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	0.563	0.733		0.722	0.767	0.744
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	0.648	0.763		0.834	0.819	0.826
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	0.663	0.737		0.856	0.869	0.863
Mean-Princeton	[-]	0.626	0.687		0.878	0.923	0.900

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	0.549	0.571		0.621	0.667	0.644
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	0.563	0.562		0.593	0.584	0.588
CLM-Princeton	[-]	0.539	0.547		0.578	0.598	0.588
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	0.585	0.605		0.585	0.638	0.611
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	0.595	0.594		0.636	0.588	0.612
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	0.486	0.530		0.570	0.608	0.589
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	0.643	0.705		0.718	0.678	0.698
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	0.632	0.649		0.649	0.583	0.616
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	0.627	0.669		0.704	0.678	0.691
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	0.592	0.627		0.619	0.661	0.640
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	0.582	0.582		0.586	0.582	0.584
Mean-Princeton	[-]	0.529	0.533		0.600	0.617	0.609

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CLM-CRUJRA	[-]	0.550	0.784		0.832	0.848	0.840
CLM-GSWP3	[-]	0.665	0.787		0.877	0.821	0.849
CLM-Princeton	[-]	0.615	0.761		0.870	0.840	0.855
ISBA-CTRIP-CRUJRA	[-]	0.473	0.764		0.693	0.779	0.736
ISBA-CTRIP-GSWP3	[-]	0.544	0.786		0.771	0.762	0.767
ISBA-CTRIP-Princeton	[-]	0.521	0.801		0.759	0.790	0.774
JSBACH-CRUJRA	[-]	0.488	0.741		0.625	0.740	0.683
JSBACH-GSWP3	[-]	0.571	0.711		0.653	0.683	0.668
JSBACH-Princeton	[-]	0.533	0.767		0.634	0.755	0.694
Mean-CRUJRA	[-]	0.462	0.773		0.710	0.799	0.754
Mean-GSWP3	[-]	0.533	0.755		0.785	0.774	0.779
Mean-Princeton	[-]	0.498	0.809		0.768	0.818	0.793

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 Relationship with Precipitation Relationship with func_Precipitation Relationship with SurfaceAirTemperature Relationship with func_SurfaceAirTemperature

  Title:

MODIS Global Terrestrial Evaportranspiration

  Version:

MOD16A2

  Institutions:

Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, University of Montana, USA

  Source:

MODIS (MOD16A2 level 4) global terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) based on the Penman-Monteith (P-M) algorithm with MERRA meteorological forcings

  History:

2019-08-19: downloaded source from http://files.ntsg.umt.edu/data/NTSG_Products/MOD16/

2019-08-21: converted to netCDF with https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-et-modisA2.py

  References:

Mu, Q.Z., M. Zhao, and S.W. Running (2011), Improvements to a MODIS global terrestrial evapotranspiration algorithm, Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 1781-1800, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.02.019

  Comments:

time_period: 2000-01 through 2014-12

original_temporal_resolution: monthly

original_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree

original_units: mm/month

final_temporal_resolution: monthly

final_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree

final_units: kg/m2/s

  Convention:

CF-1.7