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Seasonal Cycle Score [1]
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Benchmark [-] 199.
CanESM5 [-] 219. 20.1 42.6 0.983 0.481 0.266 0.937 0.488
CMIP6-MMM [-] 224. 25.0 35.3 0.983 0.401 0.428 0.937 0.548
IPSL-CM6A-LR [-] 226. 26.9 36.9 0.00 0.374 0.432 1.00 0.559
MIROC-ES2L [-] 222. 22.9 36.8 0.983 0.433 0.372 0.937 0.529
NorESM2-LM [-] 218. 19.6 37.1 0.00 0.490 0.329 1.00 0.537
UKESM1-0-LL [-] 237. 38.5 45.5 0.00 0.246 0.435 1.00 0.529
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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 [-] 214.
CanESM5 [-] 234. 19.6 40.2 0.00 0.502 0.286 1.00 0.518
CMIP6-MMM [-] 232. 17.7 30.5 1.02 0.537 0.411 0.933 0.573
IPSL-CM6A-LR [-] 261. 47.0 61.1 6.05 0.192 0.263 7.41e-05 0.180
MIROC-ES2L [-] 201. -13.0 32.8 1.02 0.634 0.347 0.933 0.565
NorESM2-LM [-] 212. -2.56 40.5 1.02 0.914 0.243 0.933 0.583
UKESM1-0-LL [-] 244. 29.3 42.4 1.02 0.357 0.351 0.933 0.498
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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 [-] 177.
CanESM5 [-] 185. 7.86 37.8 0.662 0.763 0.618 0.932 0.733
CMIP6-MMM [-] 181. 4.74 31.1 0.496 0.785 0.680 0.938 0.771
IPSL-CM6A-LR [-] 180. 3.64 38.7 0.739 0.800 0.611 0.916 0.735
MIROC-ES2L [-] 178. 1.20 36.7 0.814 0.793 0.624 0.896 0.734
NorESM2-LM [-] 182. 5.03 38.9 0.535 0.756 0.623 0.929 0.733
UKESM1-0-LL [-] 186. 9.11 35.4 0.648 0.746 0.635 0.928 0.736
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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 [-] 122.
CanESM5 [-] 117. -8.76 23.1 0.567 0.820 0.648 0.949 0.766
CMIP6-MMM [-] 112. -9.79 19.1 0.408 0.829 0.706 0.961 0.800
IPSL-CM6A-LR [-] 117. -8.26 28.7 0.793 0.816 0.625 0.934 0.750
MIROC-ES2L [-] 114. -11.6 26.7 0.680 0.782 0.661 0.942 0.761
NorESM2-LM [-] 107. -18.3 22.2 0.228 0.800 0.669 0.972 0.778
UKESM1-0-LL [-] 118. -4.22 27.0 0.307 0.794 0.663 0.968 0.772
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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 [-] 195.
CanESM5 [-] 228. 32.0 33.3 2.05 0.0979 0.126 0.745 0.274
CMIP6-MMM [-] 227. 31.7 35.4 3.07 0.0999 0.189 0.494 0.243
IPSL-CM6A-LR [-] 217. 21.8 62.2 3.07 0.206 0.0152 0.494 0.182
MIROC-ES2L [-] 215. 19.1 27.5 5.10 0.250 0.160 0.0631 0.158
NorESM2-LM [-] 221. 25.9 25.0 5.10 0.153 0.323 0.0631 0.215
UKESM1-0-LL [-] 225. 29.6 5.26 3.07 0.117 0.171 0.494 0.238
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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 [-] 161.
CanESM5 [-] 173. 9.62 31.5 0.356 0.826 0.702 0.976 0.802
CMIP6-MMM [-] 165. 4.83 25.2 0.185 0.867 0.757 0.988 0.842
IPSL-CM6A-LR [-] 168. 4.16 32.0 0.559 0.858 0.688 0.963 0.799
MIROC-ES2L [-] 165. 1.77 29.9 0.508 0.850 0.709 0.966 0.809
NorESM2-LM [-] 173. 10.4 32.1 0.254 0.826 0.703 0.983 0.804
UKESM1-0-LL [-] 169. 8.97 30.8 0.277 0.838 0.706 0.982 0.808

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Data Information

  Title:
derived WRMC BSRN

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

  History:
Mon Oct 6 14:05:35 2025: ncatted -a coordinates,rsds,c,c,lat lon /home/nate/.cache/ilamb3/0.1/rsds/WRMC.BSRN/rsds.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 23:48:40 PDT 2014

  Approach:
First I used BSRN Toolbox to extract swdn (surface downward 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)