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Period Mean (original grids) [Pg]
Model Period Mean (intersection) [Pg]
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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 [-] 19.1
v3.LR.historical_0101 [-] 30.8 29.3 19.1 1.49 0.000904 1.03 0.545 0.781 0.663
v3alt.LR.highECS001.historical [-] 36.5 34.6 19.1 1.94 0.000904 1.56 0.504 0.813 0.659
v3alt.LR.highECS003.historical [-] 33.7 31.9 19.1 1.76 0.000904 1.30 0.528 0.796 0.662
v3alt.LR.lowECS001.historical [-] 31.7 30.2 19.1 1.52 0.000904 1.12 0.532 0.782 0.657
v3alt.LR.lowECS002.historical [-] 18.7 18.0 19.1 0.684 0.000904 -0.112 0.576 0.599 0.587
v3alt.LR.lowECS003.historical [-] 21.4 20.5 19.1 0.880 0.000904 0.141 0.580 0.642 0.611
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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 [-] 7.57
v3.LR.historical_0101 [-] 13.4 11.7 7.56 2.33 0.00283 1.28 0.519 0.821 0.670
v3alt.LR.highECS001.historical [-] 15.2 13.4 7.56 2.58 0.00283 1.78 0.506 0.837 0.672
v3alt.LR.highECS003.historical [-] 14.7 13.0 7.56 2.37 0.00283 1.66 0.546 0.844 0.695
v3alt.LR.lowECS001.historical [-] 19.0 16.9 7.56 2.87 0.00283 2.85 0.515 0.821 0.668
v3alt.LR.lowECS002.historical [-] 18.4 16.3 7.56 2.83 0.00283 2.68 0.515 0.811 0.663
v3alt.LR.lowECS003.historical [-] 18.4 16.4 7.56 2.73 0.00283 2.71 0.515 0.808 0.661
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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 [-] 29.1
v3.LR.historical_0101 [-] 44.9 43.0 29.1 1.96 0.00513 1.31 0.582 0.861 0.722
v3alt.LR.highECS001.historical [-] 49.5 47.3 29.1 2.15 0.00513 1.72 0.552 0.869 0.710
v3alt.LR.highECS003.historical [-] 43.2 41.2 29.1 1.94 0.00513 1.15 0.588 0.873 0.731
v3alt.LR.lowECS001.historical [-] 46.7 44.6 29.1 2.11 0.00513 1.46 0.576 0.855 0.715
v3alt.LR.lowECS002.historical [-] 43.3 41.4 29.1 1.92 0.00513 1.16 0.603 0.828 0.715
v3alt.LR.lowECS003.historical [-] 43.1 41.2 29.1 1.91 0.00513 1.14 0.601 0.841 0.721
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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 [-] 364.
v3.LR.historical_0101 [-] 784. 747. 364. 37.2 0.0376 3.09 0.464 0.477 0.470
v3alt.LR.highECS001.historical [-] 811. 775. 364. 38.6 0.0376 3.32 0.460 0.505 0.483
v3alt.LR.highECS003.historical [-] 794. 756. 364. 38.8 0.0376 3.16 0.467 0.487 0.477
v3alt.LR.lowECS001.historical [-] 751. 714. 364. 37.8 0.0376 2.83 0.498 0.582 0.540
v3alt.LR.lowECS002.historical [-] 776. 738. 364. 38.1 0.0376 3.02 0.450 0.466 0.458
v3alt.LR.lowECS003.historical [-] 742. 705. 364. 37.3 0.0376 2.75 0.478 0.529 0.503
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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 [-] 27.3
v3.LR.historical_0101 [-] 40.2 38.5 27.3 0.956 0.000505 1.24 0.590 0.864 0.727
v3alt.LR.highECS001.historical [-] 44.1 42.3 27.3 0.996 0.000505 1.66 0.560 0.872 0.716
v3alt.LR.highECS003.historical [-] 38.5 36.9 27.3 0.954 0.000505 1.06 0.596 0.877 0.736
v3alt.LR.lowECS001.historical [-] 41.0 39.3 27.3 0.936 0.000505 1.32 0.587 0.860 0.724
v3alt.LR.lowECS002.historical [-] 37.9 36.2 27.3 0.893 0.000505 0.988 0.616 0.832 0.724
v3alt.LR.lowECS003.historical [-] 37.7 36.0 27.3 0.911 0.000505 0.967 0.614 0.846 0.730

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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