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

	Global Patterns	Regional Patterns	Scoring (Info)
	Annual Mean (W/m2) Bias (W/m2) RMSE (W/m2) Phase Change (months)	Regional Mean Individual Site	Global Bias RMSE Seasonal Cycle Spatial Distribution Interannual Variability Overall
Benchmark  [Konig-Langl et al. (2013)]	330.9 - - 0.0	access to plots access to plots	- - - - - -
MeanModel	327.5 -3.3 11.1 0.1	access to plots access to plots	0.98 0.97 0.95 0.99 0.68 0.92
bcc-csm1-1-m	330.6 -0.3 13.6 -0.1	access to plots access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.93 0.98 0.75 0.93
BNU-ESM	331.5 0.6 13.1 0.3	access to plots access to plots	0.98 0.96 0.92 0.98 0.70 0.92
CanESM2	329.4 -1.5 14.4 0.1	access to plots access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.95 0.98 0.69 0.92
CESM1-BGC	328.3 -2.5 12.4 0.1	access to plots access to plots	0.98 0.97 0.93 0.99 0.71 0.93
GFDL-ESM2G	327.8 -3.1 12.4 0.1	access to plots access to plots	0.98 0.97 0.90 0.99 0.77 0.93
HadGEM2-ES	325.3 -5.6 13.7 -0.2	access to plots access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.95 0.98 0.75 0.93
inmcm4	332.7 1.8 15.8 -0.3	access to plots access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.91 0.97 0.73 0.91
IPSL-CM5A-LR	314.1 -16.8 23.2 0.2	access to plots access to plots	0.94 0.93 0.85 0.97 0.69 0.88
MIROC-ESM	331.7 0.9 14.7 0.1	access to plots access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.87 0.95 0.72 0.90
MPI-ESM-LR	330.4 -0.5 12.7 0.2	access to plots access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.90 0.98 0.66 0.90
MRI-ESM1	322.1 -8.8 14.9 -0.2	access to plots access to plots	0.96 0.96 0.91 0.98 0.76 0.92
NorESM1-ME	326.8 -4.1 13.9 0.0	access to plots access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.96 0.99 0.76 0.93

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