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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.
CABLE-POP [-] 444. 302. 332. 142. 17.1 -0.468 0.676 0.920 0.798
CARDAMOM [-] 408. 261. 334. 147. 15.0 -1.12 0.720 0.947 0.834
CLASSIC [-] 600. 428. 347. 169. 1.44 1.15 0.595 0.772 0.683
CLM6.0 [-] 978. 630. 349. 337. 3.88 0.432 0.482 0.457
DLEM [-] 482. 413. 344. 69.2 4.58 1.03 0.654 0.859 0.757
ED [-] 342. 257. 345. 85.3 3.80 -1.32 0.625 0.892 0.759
ELM [-] 817. 597. 347. 213. 2.11 3.55 0.516 0.518 0.517
IBIS [-] 323. 214. 344. 109. 5.02 -1.96 0.649 0.909 0.779
iMAPLE [-] 415. 287. 349. 128. -0.861 0.664 0.919 0.792
ISAM [-] 707. 480. 344. 228. 4.58 2.03 0.566 0.742 0.654
ISBA-CTRIP [-] 671. 463. 349. 208. 0.0575 1.61 0.640 0.823 0.732
JSBACH [-] 373. 245. 319. 127. 30.2 -1.16 0.631 0.904 0.768
JULES [-] 388. 280. 349. 108. 0.256 -0.977 0.616 0.878 0.747
LPJ-GUESS [-] 323. 228. 344. 94.8 5.06 -1.74 0.632 0.926 0.779
LPJml [-] 572. 419. 349. 152. 0.256 1.00 0.665 0.868 0.766
LPJwsl [-] 607. 338. 344. 269. 4.58 -0.0931 0.641 0.906 0.774
LPX [-] 439. 314. 349. 124. 0.327 -0.491 0.718 0.956 0.837
OCN [-] 541. 427. 341. 114. 8.07 1.28 0.622 0.824 0.723
ORCHIDEE [-] 383. 287. 349. 96.3 0.256 -0.883 0.689 0.950 0.820
SDGVM [-] 477. 304. 345. 173. 3.50 -0.595 0.679 0.930 0.805
VISIT [-] 476. 359. 342. 117. 7.40 0.267 0.585 0.675 0.630
VISIT-UT [-] 482. 359. 342. 123. 7.40 0.266 0.583 0.672 0.627

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Data Information

  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:
Tue Oct 28 11:55:25 2025: ncatted -a _FillValue,biomass,c,f,9.969209968386869e+36 biomass_0.5x0.5.nc 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)

  Nco:
netCDF Operators version 5.3.3 (Homepage = http://nco.sf.net, Code = http://github.com/nco/nco, Citation = 10.1016/j.envsoft.2008.03.004)