Global - Land

	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
CABLE-POP	[-]	1.38	1.58	1.54	0.350	2.14		0.0491	0.707	1.37		0.525	0.547	0.783	0.966	0.674
CARDAMOM	[-]	1.27	1.37	1.55	0.452	2.06		-0.174	0.618	1.21		0.567	0.526	0.829	0.967	0.683
CLASSIC	[-]	1.44	1.59	1.56	0.899	1.99		0.0301	0.628	1.18		0.581	0.522	0.811	0.977	0.682
CliMA-Land	[-]	1.45	1.67	1.54	0.457	2.20		0.125	0.701	1.35		0.547	0.516	0.802	0.971	0.670
CLM6.0	[-]	1.36	1.52	1.56	0.802	2.44		-0.0329	0.674	1.48		0.571	0.503	0.764	0.970	0.662
DLEM	[-]	1.61	1.86	1.56	0.309	2.13		0.299	0.748	1.26		0.546	0.486	0.763	0.920	0.640
ED	[-]	1.28	1.51	1.56	0.117	1.74		-0.0447	0.663	1.38		0.560	0.480	0.769	0.967	0.651
ELM	[-]	1.39	1.55	1.56	0.817	1.97		-0.00299	0.640	1.33		0.566	0.540	0.783	0.972	0.680
IBIS	[-]	1.28	1.46	1.56	0.214	1.26		-0.101	0.821	1.48		0.558	0.382	0.765	0.968	0.611
iMAPLE	[-]	1.31	1.66	1.56	0.341			0.105	0.727	1.23		0.565	0.495	0.807	0.961	0.664
ISAM	[-]	1.38	1.58	1.56	0.265	1.73		0.0179	0.669	1.46		0.569	0.516	0.751	0.969	0.664
JSBACH	[-]	1.76	2.01	1.51	0.687	2.32		0.500	0.836	1.25		0.478	0.472	0.809	0.903	0.627
JULES	[-]	1.39	1.59	1.55	0.397	2.03		0.0423	0.629	1.31		0.569	0.535	0.790	0.964	0.679
LPJ-GUESS	[-]	1.37	1.56	1.56	0.259	1.71		0.00623	0.695	1.29		0.576	0.458	0.801	0.977	0.654
LPJml	[-]	1.39	1.60	1.56	0.612	1.18		0.0366	0.688	1.27		0.549	0.488	0.789	0.961	0.655
LPJwsl	[-]	1.10	1.27	1.56	0.224	2.13		-0.288	0.719	1.37		0.455	0.551	0.799	0.808	0.633
LPX	[-]	6.32	7.61	1.56	0.773	1.33		6.05	7.66	1.29		0.0294	0.0307	0.788	0.109	0.198
OCN	[-]	1.43	1.65	1.55	0.498	2.39		0.103	0.643	1.29		0.563	0.546	0.806	0.964	0.685
ORCHIDEE	[-]	1.37	1.57	1.56	0.590	1.18		0.0147	0.580	1.32		0.591	0.549	0.804	0.966	0.692
SDGVM	[-]	1.37	1.58	1.56	0.472	2.31		0.0284	0.733	1.23		0.540	0.513	0.812	0.968	0.669
VISIT	[-]	1.33	1.52	1.55	0.244	2.08		-0.0322	0.695	1.47		0.546	0.459	0.776	0.973	0.643
VISIT-UT	[-]	1.36	1.55	1.55	0.250	2.08		0.000902	0.697	1.47		0.546	0.461	0.774	0.973	0.643

Global - Land

	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]
CABLE-POP	[-]	0.617	0.737		0.851	0.668	0.759
CARDAMOM	[-]	0.688	0.649		0.885	0.677	0.781
CLASSIC	[-]	0.689	0.756		0.917	0.718	0.818
CliMA-Land	[-]	0.641	0.764		0.876	0.707	0.791
CLM6.0	[-]	0.712	0.788		0.910	0.710	0.810
DLEM	[-]	0.634	0.802		0.795	0.801	0.798
ED	[-]	0.338	0.760		0.00505	0.661	0.333
ELM	[-]	0.686	0.766		0.901	0.716	0.808
IBIS	[-]	0.705	0.803		0.905	0.712	0.809
iMAPLE	[-]	0.654	0.716		0.900	0.659	0.779
ISAM	[-]	0.670	0.685		0.929	0.691	0.810
JSBACH	[-]	0.522	0.789		0.692	0.695	0.694
JULES	[-]	0.653	0.798		0.898	0.711	0.805
LPJ-GUESS	[-]
LPJml	[-]	0.683	0.670		0.920	0.661	0.790
LPJwsl	[-]	0.687	0.698		0.715	0.642	0.678
LPX	[-]	0.378	0.560		0.0261	0.0643	0.0452
OCN	[-]	0.632	0.791		0.860	0.774	0.817
ORCHIDEE	[-]	0.664	0.807		0.882	0.716	0.799
SDGVM	[-]	0.652	0.709		0.852	0.677	0.764
VISIT	[-]	0.700	0.743		0.928	0.723	0.826
VISIT-UT	[-]	0.688	1.00		0.929

Global - Land 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