Diagnostic Summary for Surface Downward LW Radiation: Model vs. GEWEX.SRB

	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  [Stackhouse et al. (2011)]	328.1 - - 0.0	access to plots	- - - - - -
MeanModel	321.2 -6.8 12.6 0.4	access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.91 0.99 0.54 0.89
bcc-csm1-1-m	326.2 -1.8 14.2 0.3	access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.92 0.99 0.72 0.92
BNU-ESM	327.2 -0.9 15.1 0.4	access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.91 0.99 0.70 0.91
CanESM2	322.0 -6.1 17.0 0.4	access to plots	0.97 0.95 0.88 0.98 0.72 0.91
CESM1-BGC	321.8 -6.3 13.6 0.5	access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.88 0.99 0.73 0.92
GFDL-ESM2G	322.4 -5.7 15.1 0.4	access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.89 0.99 0.74 0.92
HadGEM2-ES	319.9 -8.1 14.0 0.3	access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.92 0.99 0.77 0.93
inmcm4	321.7 -6.4 18.5 0.1	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.90 0.98 0.71 0.91
IPSL-CM5A-LR	305.1 -22.9 27.5 0.6	access to plots	0.93 0.92 0.87 0.98 0.69 0.88
MIROC-ESM	323.8 -4.2 17.2 0.4	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.90 0.97 0.74 0.91
MPI-ESM-LR	328.2 0.1 12.0 0.2	access to plots	0.98 0.97 0.92 0.99 0.73 0.93
MRI-ESM1	317.4 -10.7 16.6 0.4	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.88 0.98 0.73 0.91
NorESM1-ME	318.9 -9.2 16.5 0.4	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.87 0.99 0.66 0.90

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