Diagnostic Summary for Surface Upward LW Radiation: Model vs. WRMC.BSRN

	Global Patterns	Regional Patterns	Scoring (Info)
	Annual Mean (W/m2) Bias (W/m2) RMSE (W/m2) Phase Difference (months)	Regional Mean Individual Site	Global Bias RMSE Seasonal Cycle Spatial Distribution Interannual Variability Overall
Benchmark  [Konig-Langl et al. (2013)]	366.4 - - 0.0	access to plots access to plots	- - - - - -
CLM40cn	336.1 -30.3 34.2 0.1	access to plots access to plots	0.93 0.93 1.00 0.41 0.89 0.85
CLM45bgc_CRUNCEP	335.7 -30.7 34.6 0.1	access to plots access to plots	0.93 0.93 1.00 0.41 0.86 0.84
CLM45bgc_GSWP3	344.2 -22.2 32.0 0.1	access to plots access to plots	0.94 0.94 1.00 0.40 0.87 0.85

Notes: In calculating overall score, rmse score contributes double in comparison with all other scores.