Diagnostic Summary for Surface Downward LW Radiation: Model vs. CERES

	Global Patterns	Regional Patterns	Scoring (Info)
	Annual Mean (W/m2) Bias (W/m2) RMSE (W/m2) Phase Change (months)	Regional Mean	Global Bias RMSE Seasonal Cycle Spatial Distribution Interannual Variability Overall
Benchmark  [Kato et al. (2013)]	331.5 - - 0.0	access to plots	- - - - - -
MeanModel	323.4 -8.1 15.3 0.4	access to plots	0.96 0.96 0.91 0.98 0.72 0.91
bcc-csm1-1-m	328.9 -2.8 16.7 0.2	access to plots	0.97 0.95 0.92 0.98 0.61 0.90
BNU-ESM	329.2 -2.2 17.7 0.4	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.90 0.97 0.58 0.88
CanESM2	324.3 -7.1 18.8 0.3	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.89 0.98 0.56 0.88
CESM1-BGC	323.8 -7.7 15.9 0.4	access to plots	0.97 0.95 0.89 0.99 0.63 0.90
GFDL-ESM2G	325.4 -6.1 17.8 0.3	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.90 0.97 0.61 0.89
HadGEM2-ES	321.9 -9.5 16.7 0.2	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.92 0.98 0.62 0.90
inmcm4	322.5 -9.0 21.9 0.2	access to plots	0.95 0.94 0.89 0.97 0.57 0.88
IPSL-CM5A-LR	307.9 -23.7 29.2 0.6	access to plots	0.92 0.92 0.87 0.96 0.61 0.87
MIROC-ESM	325.7 -5.8 20.3 0.4	access to plots	0.95 0.94 0.90 0.95 0.63 0.88
MPI-ESM-LR	329.7 -1.8 15.0 0.1	access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.91 0.98 0.64 0.90
MRI-ESM1	319.2 -12.3 19.5 0.2	access to plots	0.95 0.94 0.88 0.98 0.64 0.89
NorESM1-ME	321.9 -9.7 19.3 0.2	access to plots	0.96 0.94 0.89 0.98 0.58 0.88

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