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Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]
Bias [Watt m-2]
RMSE [Watt m-2]
Phase Shift [months]
Bias Score [1]
RMSE Score [1]
Seasonal Cycle Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 49.2
CanESM5 [-] 42.6 0.179 34.1 1.36 0.519 0.442 0.790 0.548
E3SMv3 default 0051 [-] 41.0 -7.70 31.8 1.76 0.608 0.420 0.739 0.547
E3SMv3 default 0111 [-] 41.0 -7.37 31.7 1.76 0.604 0.421 0.732 0.544
E3SMv3 default 0161 [-] 41.0 -7.34 31.6 1.83 0.628 0.429 0.719 0.551
E3SMv3 default 0281 [-] 40.8 -7.82 31.4 1.56 0.619 0.431 0.765 0.562
E3SMv3 default 0311 [-] 41.0 -7.43 32.5 1.62 0.627 0.423 0.741 0.554
E3SMv3 highECS 0051 [-] 40.0 -9.19 31.7 1.36 0.644 0.445 0.810 0.586
E3SMv3 highECS 0111 [-] 40.1 -9.04 31.2 1.55 0.649 0.442 0.786 0.579
E3SMv3 highECS 0161 [-] 40.3 -8.77 32.0 1.49 0.641 0.410 0.762 0.556
E3SMv3 highECS 0281 [-] 40.3 -8.62 31.6 1.36 0.644 0.434 0.786 0.574
E3SMv3 highECS 0311 [-] 40.1 -8.95 30.7 1.35 0.631 0.439 0.807 0.579
E3SMv3 lowECS 0051 [-] 40.4 -7.42 32.0 1.69 0.595 0.407 0.743 0.538
E3SMv3 lowECS 0111 [-] 40.1 -8.04 33.3 1.90 0.617 0.408 0.702 0.534
E3SMv3 lowECS 0161 [-] 40.8 -6.80 33.9 1.63 0.590 0.392 0.748 0.530
E3SMv3 lowECS 0281 [-] 40.1 -8.02 31.8 1.63 0.627 0.410 0.748 0.549
E3SMv3 lowECS 0311 [-] 40.6 -6.88 33.2 1.56 0.600 0.401 0.752 0.539
IPSL-CM6A-LR [-] 39.6 -8.85 25.4 1.49 0.657 0.490 0.769 0.602
MIROC-ES2L [-] 31.9 -15.6 25.3 1.69 0.581 0.482 0.749 0.573
NorESM2-LM [-] 40.9 -7.70 27.3 1.49 0.652 0.443 0.757 0.574
UKESM1-0-LL [-] 46.3 1.63 25.1 1.29 0.587 0.423 0.803 0.559
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Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]
Bias [Watt m-2]
RMSE [Watt m-2]
Phase Shift [months]
Bias Score [1]
RMSE Score [1]
Seasonal Cycle Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 41.1
CanESM5 [-] 35.9 -7.10 21.2 1.70 0.713 0.598 0.748 0.664
E3SMv3 default 0051 [-] 27.4 -14.4 28.8 2.38 0.584 0.544 0.641 0.579
E3SMv3 default 0111 [-] 27.3 -14.6 27.2 2.38 0.586 0.544 0.641 0.579
E3SMv3 default 0161 [-] 27.1 -15.5 28.5 2.38 0.584 0.542 0.641 0.577
E3SMv3 default 0281 [-] 26.9 -15.9 30.1 1.36 0.569 0.527 0.809 0.608
E3SMv3 default 0311 [-] 26.9 -16.0 28.5 1.36 0.577 0.542 0.809 0.618
E3SMv3 highECS 0051 [-] 26.4 -15.3 28.3 1.36 0.560 0.542 0.809 0.613
E3SMv3 highECS 0111 [-] 26.1 -16.0 28.8 1.36 0.564 0.531 0.809 0.609
E3SMv3 highECS 0161 [-] 26.7 -15.3 28.6 1.36 0.566 0.522 0.809 0.605
E3SMv3 highECS 0281 [-] 26.8 -14.6 29.4 1.36 0.574 0.523 0.809 0.607
E3SMv3 highECS 0311 [-] 26.7 -14.7 29.1 1.36 0.558 0.517 0.809 0.600
E3SMv3 lowECS 0051 [-] 26.4 -16.5 29.5 1.36 0.573 0.546 0.809 0.618
E3SMv3 lowECS 0111 [-] 26.8 -15.2 29.4 2.38 0.580 0.541 0.641 0.576
E3SMv3 lowECS 0161 [-] 27.6 -14.2 29.8 2.38 0.578 0.537 0.641 0.573
E3SMv3 lowECS 0281 [-] 26.6 -15.8 27.9 2.38 0.573 0.544 0.641 0.576
E3SMv3 lowECS 0311 [-] 27.1 -15.6 27.8 2.38 0.573 0.549 0.641 0.578
IPSL-CM6A-LR [-] 31.4 -9.06 20.8 2.04 0.696 0.577 0.664 0.629
MIROC-ES2L [-] 23.9 -16.1 26.6 2.04 0.681 0.570 0.664 0.621
NorESM2-LM [-] 29.4 -17.9 26.7 1.02 0.613 0.581 0.831 0.651
UKESM1-0-LL [-] 35.2 -5.99 19.8 2.04 0.858 0.568 0.664 0.665
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Period Mean (original grids) [Watt m-2]
Bias [Watt m-2]
RMSE [Watt m-2]
Phase Shift [months]
Bias Score [1]
RMSE Score [1]
Seasonal Cycle Score [1]
Overall Score [1]
Benchmark [-] 41.6
CanESM5 [-] 33.6 2.41 25.7 1.32 0.497 0.400 0.793 0.522
E3SMv3 default 0051 [-] 29.4 -7.02 23.8 1.73 0.623 0.379 0.729 0.527
E3SMv3 default 0111 [-] 29.5 -6.59 23.7 1.73 0.619 0.378 0.718 0.523
E3SMv3 default 0161 [-] 29.7 -6.67 23.0 1.82 0.650 0.387 0.700 0.531
E3SMv3 default 0281 [-] 29.2 -7.20 23.1 1.42 0.637 0.393 0.768 0.548
E3SMv3 default 0311 [-] 29.4 -6.92 23.3 1.61 0.649 0.379 0.726 0.534
E3SMv3 highECS 0051 [-] 28.2 -9.10 22.3 1.22 0.671 0.416 0.829 0.583
E3SMv3 highECS 0111 [-] 28.2 -8.86 22.3 1.51 0.677 0.412 0.793 0.573
E3SMv3 highECS 0161 [-] 28.4 -8.50 23.5 1.42 0.664 0.380 0.757 0.545
E3SMv3 highECS 0281 [-] 28.4 -8.41 22.7 1.22 0.673 0.406 0.793 0.569
E3SMv3 highECS 0311 [-] 28.3 -8.71 22.6 1.21 0.652 0.409 0.824 0.574
E3SMv3 lowECS 0051 [-] 29.4 -6.40 24.9 1.73 0.604 0.362 0.718 0.511
E3SMv3 lowECS 0111 [-] 28.9 -7.23 24.0 1.93 0.638 0.367 0.674 0.511
E3SMv3 lowECS 0161 [-] 30.0 -5.42 25.5 1.73 0.598 0.345 0.718 0.501
E3SMv3 lowECS 0281 [-] 28.8 -7.39 24.4 1.73 0.648 0.369 0.718 0.526
E3SMv3 lowECS 0311 [-] 29.8 -5.56 25.2 1.62 0.613 0.355 0.725 0.512
IPSL-CM6A-LR [-] 27.2 -8.81 20.2 1.62 0.679 0.457 0.755 0.587
MIROC-ES2L [-] 23.9 -12.5 22.3 1.82 0.550 0.452 0.743 0.549
NorESM2-LM [-] 29.2 -6.02 22.2 1.62 0.690 0.407 0.736 0.560
UKESM1-0-LL [-] 36.4 4.99 24.3 1.22 0.579 0.368 0.811 0.531

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Data Information

  Title:
derived WRMC BSRN

  Source_file:
This product is generated from monthly WRMC.BSRN observations

  History:
Fri Sep 26 15:23:51 2025: ncatted -a coordinates,rsus,c,c,lat lon /home/nate/.cache/ilamb3/0.1/rsus/WRMC.BSRN/rsus.nc

  Conventions:
Please contact Prof. James Randerson (Email: jranders@uci.edu) or Dr. Mingquan Mu (mmu@uci.edu) for any question

  Altitude:
BSRN

  Site_name:
ASP,BAR,BER,BIL,BON,BOS,BOU,BRB,CAB,CAM,CAR,CLH,CNR,COC,DAA,DAR,DOM,DRA,DWN,E13,EUR,FLO,FPE,FUA,GCR,GVN,ILO,ISH,IZA,KWA,LAU,LER,LIN,MAN,MNM,NAU,NYA,PAL,PAY,PSU,PTR,REG,RLM,SAP,SBO,SMS,SOV,SPO,SXF,SYO,TAM,TAT,TIK,TOR,XIA

  Creation_date:
Sun Jun 22 23:47:22 PDT 2014

  Approach:
First I used BSRN Toolbox to extract swup (surface upward shortwave radiation) from raw data files, and saved the data in ascii format, then I organized all site data together for each month and year and saved them in a netcdf file.

  Temporal resolution:
monthly

  General information:
This product was derived from WRMC-BSRN radiation dataset.

  Spatial resolution:
site observations

  Derived data code:
http://redwood.ess.uci.edu/mingquan/www/ILAMB/Download/CODES/CODES/subroutines/convert/convert-WRMC.BSRN.ncl

  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)