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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 [-] 56.3
CanESM5 [-] 95.1 87.2 55.6 9.06 0.711 3.19 0.660 0.935 0.797
E3SMv3 default [-] 130. 129. 56.3 0.227 0.00445 7.24 0.387 0.270 0.328
E3SMv3 highECS [-] 129. 129. 56.3 0.261 0.00445 7.22 0.385 0.277 0.331
E3SMv3 lowECS [-] 126. 125. 56.3 0.208 0.00445 6.85 0.405 0.321 0.363
IPSL-CM6A-LR [-] 55.5 55.8 54.0 0.110 2.23 0.189 0.752 0.948 0.850
MIROC-ES2L [-] 72.0 70.5 54.1 2.70 2.13 1.74 0.625 0.853 0.739
NorESM2-LM [-] 55.8 51.7 55.6 4.16 0.711 -0.391 0.668 0.901 0.784
UKESM1-0-LL [-] 62.7 62.3 54.8 0.671 1.42 0.777 0.658 0.929 0.794
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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 [-] 37.5
CanESM5 [-] 106. 60.2 37.5 47.9 4.92 0.738 0.732 0.735
E3SMv3 default [-] 70.6 70.0 37.3 0.631 0.191 8.03 0.564 0.823 0.693
E3SMv3 highECS [-] 69.3 68.7 37.3 0.615 0.191 7.71 0.574 0.829 0.701
E3SMv3 lowECS [-] 66.3 65.7 37.3 0.594 0.191 6.99 0.619 0.889 0.754
IPSL-CM6A-LR [-] 38.4 31.4 31.1 7.50 6.39 0.0950 0.682 0.449 0.565
MIROC-ES2L [-] 44.5 28.9 31.1 16.7 6.40 -0.664 0.602 0.305 0.454
NorESM2-LM [-] 111. 70.3 37.5 42.9 7.11 0.660 0.914 0.787
UKESM1-0-LL [-] 40.5 37.1 28.5 3.75 9.03 3.30 0.784 0.513 0.648
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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 [-] 349.
CanESM5 [-] 618. 393. 348. 225. 0.793 0.625 0.612 0.877 0.745
E3SMv3 default [-] 733. 577. 349. 156. 0.187 3.23 0.508 0.417 0.462
E3SMv3 highECS [-] 741. 575. 349. 166. 0.187 3.20 0.509 0.424 0.467
E3SMv3 lowECS [-] 701. 541. 349. 161. 0.187 2.72 0.553 0.525 0.539
IPSL-CM6A-LR [-] 358. 285. 326. 73.3 23.1 -0.637 0.686 0.933 0.810
MIROC-ES2L [-] 541. 346. 330. 195. 19.4 0.244 0.633 0.877 0.755
NorESM2-LM [-] 572. 372. 348. 200. 0.793 0.340 0.649 0.868 0.758
UKESM1-0-LL [-] 564. 428. 326. 137. 22.7 1.58 0.653 0.883 0.768
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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 [-] 100.
CanESM5 [-] 59.9 58.5 100. 1.48 -4.87 0.619 0.784 0.701
E3SMv3 default [-] 235. 235. 100. 0.158 0.00354 15.8 0.390 0.300 0.345
E3SMv3 highECS [-] 232. 232. 100. 0.153 0.00354 15.4 0.401 0.306 0.353
E3SMv3 lowECS [-] 190. 190. 100. 0.119 0.00354 10.5 0.497 0.427 0.462
IPSL-CM6A-LR [-] 101. 101. 98.7 0.336 1.42 0.240 0.831 0.936 0.883
MIROC-ES2L [-] 89.6 88.0 98.1 1.59 2.09 -1.23 0.756 0.676 0.716
NorESM2-LM [-] 136. 134. 100. 2.64 3.93 0.724 0.969 0.846
UKESM1-0-LL [-] 115. 115. 98.4 0.394 1.78 2.05 0.795 0.854 0.825
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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 [-] 10.7
CanESM5 [-] 183. 5.49 10.7 178. -1.54 0.530 0.769 0.650
E3SMv3 default [-] 141. 5.40 10.7 136. 0.0151 -1.58 0.520 0.725 0.622
E3SMv3 highECS [-] 149. 5.52 10.7 144. 0.0151 -1.55 0.516 0.706 0.611
E3SMv3 lowECS [-] 144. 5.63 10.7 139. 0.0151 -1.51 0.535 0.748 0.641
IPSL-CM6A-LR [-] 59.3 1.46 9.76 57.8 0.985 -2.65 0.420 0.506 0.463
MIROC-ES2L [-] 166. 6.68 10.3 159. 0.457 -1.11 0.562 0.845 0.703
NorESM2-LM [-] 165. 6.86 10.7 158. -1.14 0.532 0.692 0.612
UKESM1-0-LL [-] 122. 6.19 10.1 116. 0.696 -1.21 0.578 0.778 0.678

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Data Information

  Title:
Global Tropical Forest Biomass

  Institution:
NASA-JPL (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, USA)

  Source:
4079 in situ inventory plots, satellite light detection and ranging (LiDAR) samples of forest structure, and optical and microwave imagery (1-km resolution) to extrapolate estimates

  History:
Tue Oct 28 11:55:25 2025: ncatted -a _FillValue,biomass,c,f,9.969209968386869e+36 biomass_0.5x0.5.nc 2015-01-08-T06:37:41Z Converted from 1 km x 1 km to 0.5 degree x 0.5 degree by Mingquan Mu (mmu@uci.edu) on Fri Jan 9 10:37:41 PST 2015

  References:
Saatchi, S. S., N. L. Harris, S. Brown, M. Lefsky, E. T. A. 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, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 108(24):9899-9904, doi:10.1073/pnas.1019576108.

  Conventions:
CF-1.6

  Institute_id:
NASA-JPL

  Creation_date:
2015-01-08-T06:37:41Z

  Product:
observations

  Data_structure:
grid

  Realm:
land

  Contact:
Prof. James T. Randerson (jranders@uci.edu) or Dr. Mingquan Mu (mmu@uci.edu)

  Nco:
netCDF Operators version 5.3.3 (Homepage = http://nco.sf.net, Code = http://github.com/nco/nco, Citation = 10.1016/j.envsoft.2008.03.004)