Mean State

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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
CABLE-POP [-] 1.82 1.82 1.21 1.64 1.45 0.613 0.922 1.88 0.328 0.541 0.685 0.875 0.594
CliMA-Land [-] 1.25 1.25 1.26 0.510 1.48 -0.000882 0.449 1.33 0.502 0.500 0.769 0.974 0.649
CLM6.0 [-] 2.42 2.39 1.22 2.87 1.73 1.16 1.56 2.01 0.166 0.481 0.620 0.627 0.475
DLEM [-] 1.77 1.77 1.22 0.119 1.41 0.554 0.964 1.82 0.268 0.471 0.696 0.809 0.543
ED [-] 1.51 1.51 1.22 0.00611 1.37 0.290 0.995 2.72 0.321 0.464 0.563 0.796 0.522
ELM [-] 1.98 1.94 1.22 2.47 1.60 0.715 1.12 1.97 0.301 0.480 0.657 0.702 0.524
IBIS [-] 0.924 0.924 1.24 0.347 1.05 -0.320 0.618 1.52 0.355 0.566 0.723 0.939 0.630
iMAPLE [-] 1.29 1.40 1.23 0.118 0.168 0.699 1.67 0.417 0.574 0.704 0.925 0.639
ISBA-CTRIP [-] 1.56 1.54 1.23 2.06 1.27 0.310 0.635 1.75 0.474 0.528 0.673 0.950 0.631
JSBACH [-] 1.46 1.45 1.20 1.76 1.59 0.259 0.690 1.63 0.397 0.457 0.689 0.952 0.590
JULES [-] 1.90 1.90 1.22 0.686 1.34 0.678 0.948 1.98 0.260 0.560 0.681 0.866 0.585
LPJ-GUESS [-] 1.81 1.81 1.24 0.927 1.10 0.572 0.872 1.73 0.352 0.514 0.707 0.903 0.598
LPJml [-] 5.22 5.23 1.23 4.51 1.68 4.00 4.18 1.73 0.0518 0.443 0.690 0.238 0.373
LPJwsl [-] 3.07 3.07 1.22 0.435 1.41 1.85 2.27 1.80 0.125 0.488 0.704 0.417 0.444
LPX [-] 3.73 3.74 1.24 0.203 0.714 2.50 2.82 1.66 0.139 0.347 0.726 0.273 0.366
OCN [-] 2.52 2.53 1.22 1.90 1.54 1.32 1.57 2.14 0.135 0.484 0.634 0.705 0.488
ORCHIDEE [-] 1.51 1.52 1.23 0.336 1.68 0.290 0.701 2.03 0.364 0.544 0.648 0.906 0.601
SDGVM [-] 2.18 2.19 1.24 1.80 1.00 0.951 1.22 1.83 0.276 0.402 0.669 0.878 0.525
VISIT [-] 3.93 3.93 1.24 7.14 1.15 2.70 2.91 2.15 0.0830 0.342 0.648 0.338 0.351

Temporally integrated period mean

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Spatially integrated regional mean

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Relationships

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Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]
Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
CABLE-POP [-] 0.571 0.632 0.632
CliMA-Land [-] 0.799 0.852 0.852
CLM6.0 [-] 0.573 0.379 0.379
DLEM [-] 0.722 0.581 0.581
ED [-] 0.520 1.85e-06 1.85e-06
ELM [-] 0.693 0.479 0.479
IBIS [-] 0.764 0.844 0.844
iMAPLE [-] 0.732 0.763 0.763
ISBA-CTRIP [-] 0.586 0.718 0.718
JSBACH [-] 0.671 0.744 0.744
JULES [-] 0.550 0.582 0.582
LPJ-GUESS [-]
LPJml [-] 0.434 0.0766 0.0766
LPJwsl [-] 0.534 0.271 0.271
LPX [-] 0.586 0.139 0.139
OCN [-] 0.482 0.451 0.451
ORCHIDEE [-] 0.714 0.745 0.745
SDGVM [-] 0.466 0.616 0.616
VISIT [-] 0.514 0.184 0.184

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Data Information

  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