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Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]
Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]
Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]
Model Period Mean (complement) [Pg]
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Bias [kg m-2]
Bias Score [1]
Spatial Distribution Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 364.
ELM [-] 993. 892. 363. 70.2 0.897 4.28 0.436 0.455 0.446
ELM-FUN2.0 [-] 779. 699. 363. 54.9 0.897 2.72 0.511 0.575 0.543
ELM-FUN3.0 [-] 536. 482. 363. 37.9 0.897 0.959 0.614 0.827 0.720
EnsembleCMIP6 [-] 566. 516. 364. 41.6 1.22 0.667 0.908 0.787

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]
SurfaceDownwardSWRadiation|CERESed4.1 Hellinger Distance [1]
SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]
Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]
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Overall Score [1]
ELM [-] 0.407 0.309 0.302 0.120 0.251 0.249 0.207
ELM-FUN2.0 [-] 0.354 0.249 0.239 0.211 0.404 0.417 0.344
ELM-FUN3.0 [-] 0.335 0.222 0.204 0.490 0.677 0.689 0.618
EnsembleCMIP6 [-] 0.296 0.350 0.283 0.670 0.547 0.627 0.615

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All Models

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Data Information

  Title:
Global forest live biomass carbon version 5.1

  Version:
5.1

  Institutions:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

  Source:
A combination of data in situ inventory plots and satellite light detection and ranging (Lidar) samples

  History:
2017-10-31: downloaded source from https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Saatchi
2019-03-14: convert original tif files to netcdf data using gdal_translate
2019-11-06: converted to ILAMB required netCDF with https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-biomass-GlobalCarbon.py

  References:
Saatchi, S.S., N.L. Harris, S. Brown, M. Lefsky, E.T. 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, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(24), 9899-9904, doi:10.1073/pnas.1019576108

  Comments:
time_period: climatology
original_temporal_resolution: climatology
original_spatial_resolution: 0.25 degree
original_units: kg/m2 biomass
final_temporal_resolution: climatology
final_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree
final_units: kg/m2 carbon

  Convention:
CF-1.7