ABoVE domain Globe

	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	[-]	0.684
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	0.883	0.923	0.691	0.111	0.320		0.232	0.715	1.49		0.483	0.407	0.855	0.586	0.547
ACCESS1-3	[-]	0.337	0.464	0.676	0.0609			-0.212	0.281	0.728		0.637	0.673	0.955	0.961	0.780
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	1.08	1.11	0.691	0.236	0.426		0.418	0.873	1.73		0.374	0.480	0.823	0.406	0.513
CanESM2	[-]	0.475	0.737	0.676	0.0208			0.0628	0.768	1.81		0.400	0.484	0.811	0.357	0.507
CanESM5	[-]	0.541	0.811	0.684	0.0943			0.134	0.827	1.78		0.362	0.448	0.835	0.358	0.490
CESM2	[-]	1.17	1.24	0.690	0.383	0.490		0.544	1.15	2.69		0.306	0.373	0.679	0.314	0.409
CNRM-ESM2-1	[-]	0.843	0.889	0.685	0.651	0.383		0.205	0.598	1.35		0.684	0.469	0.869	0.971	0.692
EnsembleCMIP5	[-]	1.21	1.67	0.676	0.421			0.988	1.16	1.16		0.243	0.533	0.923	0.671	0.581
EnsembleCMIP6	[-]	0.902	1.23	0.684	0.369			0.543	0.753	1.18		0.416	0.544	0.921	0.704	0.626
GFDL-ESM2M	[-]	3.76	4.82	0.676	1.46			4.13	4.43	2.10		0.144	0.403	0.757	0.0892	0.359
GFDL_ESM4	[-]	2.30	2.83	0.684	1.31			2.15	2.33	1.76		0.153	0.500	0.831	0.363	0.469
GISS-E2-1-G	[-]	0.525	0.793	0.684	0.0243			0.109	0.435	0.732		0.614	0.658	0.957	0.794	0.736
IPSL-CM5A-LR	[-]	1.81	1.89	0.685	1.12	0.234		1.20	1.47	1.51		0.191	0.357	0.842	0.425	0.434
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	0.867	0.925	0.696	0.391	0.362		0.234	0.657	1.43		0.500	0.477	0.882	0.646	0.596
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	0.802	0.935	0.684	0.334	0.340		0.253	0.827	1.78		0.414	0.465	0.750	0.363	0.491
MPI-ESM-LR	[-]	1.07	1.10	0.715	0.611	0.389		0.385	0.761	1.12		0.472	0.475	0.927	0.702	0.610
MPI-ESM1-2-LR	[-]	1.32	1.34	0.723	0.888	0.392		0.617	0.944	1.05		0.449	0.478	0.935	0.711	0.610
NorESM1-M	[-]	0.587	0.838	0.678	0.0634			0.160	0.761	2.17		0.430	0.419	0.752	0.491	0.502
NorESM2-LM	[-]	0.824	1.14	0.685	0.196			0.453	1.06	2.66		0.321	0.396	0.689	0.340	0.428
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	1.97	1.99	0.702	1.71	0.309		1.29	1.48	1.42		0.226	0.498	0.898	0.420	0.508

	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	[-]	1.24
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	1.18	1.25	1.23	0.169	1.68		0.0201	0.857	1.79		0.275	0.492	0.702	0.902	0.573
ACCESS1-3	[-]	-5.48e+15	1.06	1.22	0.0658			-0.160	0.458	1.43		0.412	0.592	0.749	0.947	0.658
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	1.54	1.61	1.23	0.351	1.60		0.376	0.909	1.81		0.300	0.426	0.694	0.873	0.544
CanESM2	[-]	-2.31e+17	1.34	1.22	0.0459			0.112	1.14	2.63		0.224	0.474	0.551	0.757	0.496
CanESM5	[-]	6.17e+15	1.52	1.24	0.181			0.275	0.960	2.18		0.290	0.443	0.620	0.842	0.527
CESM2	[-]	1.60	1.55	1.22	0.777	1.94		0.327	0.973	2.21		0.338	0.491	0.610	0.872	0.560
CNRM-ESM2-1	[-]	1.35	1.39	1.24	1.21	1.59		0.151	0.718	2.03		0.409	0.459	0.618	0.947	0.578
EnsembleCMIP5	[-]	0.627	1.85	1.22	0.133			0.633	0.998	1.80		0.257	0.519	0.671	0.913	0.576
EnsembleCMIP6	[-]	0.547	1.54	1.24	0.149			0.297	0.662	1.64		0.394	0.543	0.698	0.955	0.627
GFDL-ESM2M	[-]	-2.95e+15	2.81	1.22	0.210			1.59	2.22	2.60		0.176	0.397	0.526	0.457	0.390
GFDL_ESM4	[-]	-1.05e+16	2.01	1.24	0.201			0.775	1.26	2.15		0.259	0.371	0.617	0.812	0.486
GISS-E2-1-G	[-]	-1.34e+15	0.914	1.24	0.0116			-0.323	0.665	1.42		0.319	0.508	0.726	0.864	0.585
IPSL-CM5A-LR	[-]	1.84	1.92	1.22	2.09	1.22		0.700	1.19	2.02		0.226	0.429	0.647	0.853	0.516
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	1.58	1.55	1.24	1.79	1.08		0.313	0.733	1.93		0.368	0.515	0.656	0.933	0.597
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	1.18	1.38	1.23	1.31	1.89		0.150	0.787	2.23		0.341	0.560	0.641	0.898	0.600
MPI-ESM-LR	[-]	1.79	1.81	1.17	0.395	1.62		0.642	1.07	2.03		0.287	0.358	0.623	0.921	0.509
MPI-ESM1-2-LR	[-]	1.51	1.54	1.19	0.321	1.65		0.353	0.900	1.78		0.322	0.400	0.674	0.923	0.544
NorESM1-M	[-]	-6.54e+15	2.20	1.22	0.140			0.972	1.55	2.38		0.180	0.447	0.596	0.569	0.448
NorESM2-LM	[-]	-1.54e+15	1.52	1.24	0.152			0.282	0.972	2.23		0.320	0.501	0.608	0.870	0.560
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	2.65	2.50	1.24	3.41	1.05		1.26	1.42	1.88		0.234	0.561	0.702	0.835	0.579

ABoVE domain Globe

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceDownwardSWRadiation|CERESed4.1 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceDownwardSWRadiation|CERESed4.1 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	0.663	0.580	0.684		0.645	0.374	0.559	0.526
ACCESS1-3	[-]	0.615	0.683	0.602		0.600	0.722	0.578	0.634
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	0.611	0.406			0.253	0.296		0.274
CanESM2	[-]	0.603	0.578	0.516		0.500	0.741	0.595	0.612
CanESM5	[-]	0.584	0.614	0.551		0.200	0.436	0.559	0.398
CESM2	[-]		0.499	0.613			0.221	0.370	0.295
CNRM-ESM2-1	[-]	0.773	0.757	0.767		0.732	0.797	0.846	0.792
EnsembleCMIP5	[-]	0.601	0.469	0.527		0.391	0.291	0.393	0.358
EnsembleCMIP6	[-]	0.664	0.521	0.641		0.519	0.432	0.546	0.499
GFDL-ESM2M	[-]								0.00
GFDL_ESM4	[-]	0.565	0.514	0.507		0.0993	0.104	0.131	0.112
GISS-E2-1-G	[-]								0.00
IPSL-CM5A-LR	[-]	0.620	0.584	0.561		0.123	0.133	0.175	0.144
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	0.714	0.622	0.659		0.729	0.551	0.567	0.615
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	0.576	0.635	0.594		0.135	0.612	0.473	0.407
MPI-ESM-LR	[-]								0.00
MPI-ESM1-2-LR	[-]	0.702	0.516	0.610		0.490	0.308	0.407	0.402
NorESM1-M	[-]	0.640	0.550	0.634		0.653	0.395	0.491	0.513
NorESM2-LM	[-]	0.506	0.538	0.586		0.328	0.244	0.480	0.351
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	0.543	0.580	0.606		0.0480	0.149	0.0837	0.0937

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceDownwardSWRadiation|CERESed4.1 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceDownwardSWRadiation|CERESed4.1 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
ACCESS-ESM1-5	[-]	0.649	0.562	0.668		0.701	0.636	0.625	0.654
ACCESS1-3	[-]	0.470	0.505	0.552		0.455	0.460	0.457	0.458
BCC-CSM2-MR	[-]	0.701	0.563			0.875	0.635		0.755
CanESM2	[-]	0.477	0.501	0.555		0.428	0.530	0.521	0.493
CanESM5	[-]	0.490	0.495	0.573		0.542	0.578	0.558	0.560
CESM2	[-]		0.576	0.656			0.695	0.576	0.635
CNRM-ESM2-1	[-]	0.769	0.667	0.765		0.847	0.730	0.678	0.752
EnsembleCMIP5	[-]	0.479	0.510	0.572		0.528	0.581	0.603	0.571
EnsembleCMIP6	[-]	0.500	0.534	0.594		0.511	0.567	0.573	0.550
GFDL-ESM2M	[-]								0.00
GFDL_ESM4	[-]	0.466	0.511	0.556		0.544	0.626	0.554	0.575
GISS-E2-1-G	[-]								0.00
IPSL-CM5A-LR	[-]	0.528	0.601	0.594		0.623	0.349	0.414	0.462
IPSL-CM6A-LR	[-]	0.787	0.709	0.708		0.872	0.602	0.637	0.704
MIROC-ES2L	[-]	0.639	0.630	0.682		0.877	0.672	0.680	0.743
MPI-ESM-LR	[-]								0.00
MPI-ESM1-2-LR	[-]	0.664	0.537	0.648		0.703	0.593	0.571	0.623
NorESM1-M	[-]	0.543	0.557	0.605		0.652	0.613	0.588	0.618
NorESM2-LM	[-]	0.462	0.472	0.551		0.506	0.573	0.565	0.548
UKESM1-0-LL	[-]	0.419	0.567	0.553		0.540	0.259	0.265	0.355

ABoVE domain Globe 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 SurfaceDownwardSWRadiation Relationship with func_SurfaceDownwardSWRadiation Relationship with SurfaceAirTemperature Relationship with func_SurfaceAirTemperature

  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