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]
Benchmark	[-]	2.30
ELM_Control	[-]	2.28	2.28	2.24		3.07		0.111	0.702	0.997		0.761	0.755	0.881	0.945
ELM_ShallowSnow	[-]	2.28	2.28	2.24		3.07		0.111	0.702	0.997		0.761	0.755	0.881	0.945

Global - Land Temporally integrated period mean

  Title:

GPCP Version 2.3 Combined Precipitation Dataset (Final)

  Version:

2.3

  Institutions:

NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD, Boulder, Colorado, USA

ESSIC/CICS, University of Maryland, USA

  Source:

GPCC gauge analysis to bias correct satellite estimates over land and merge with satellite based on sampling

  History:

2019-04-18: downloaded source from http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.gpcp.html

2019-05-09: converted to netCDF with https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-pr-gpcp.py

  References:

Adler, R.F., G.J. Huffman, A. Chang, R. Ferraro, P. Xie, J. Janowiak, B. Rudolf, U. Schneider, S. Curtis, D. Bolvin, A. Gruber, J. Susskind, P. Arkin (2003), The Version 2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Precipitation Analysis (1979 - Present), J. Hydrometeor., 4(6), 1147-1167

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  Comments:

time_period: 1979-01 through 2018-12

original_temporal_resolution: monthly

original_spatial_resolution: 2.5x2.5 degree

original_units: mm/day

final_temporal_resolution: monthly

final_spatial_resolution: 0.5x0.5 degree

final_units: kg/m2/s

  Convention:

CF-1.7