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)]	330.0 - - 0.0	access to plots	- - - - - -
MeanModel	321.9 -8.2 15.4 0.4	access to plots	0.96 0.96 0.91 0.98 0.72 0.91
bcc-csm1-1-m	327.3 -2.9 16.8 0.2	access to plots	0.97 0.95 0.92 0.98 0.61 0.90
BNU-ESM	328.0 -2.0 17.9 0.4	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.90 0.97 0.57 0.88
CanESM2	322.8 -7.2 18.9 0.3	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.89 0.98 0.55 0.88
CESM1-BGC	322.4 -7.7 15.9 0.4	access to plots	0.97 0.95 0.89 0.99 0.63 0.90
GFDL-ESM2G	323.8 -6.3 18.0 0.3	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.90 0.97 0.61 0.89
HadGEM2-ES	320.5 -9.4 16.7 0.2	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.92 0.98 0.62 0.90
inmcm4	320.8 -9.2 22.0 0.2	access to plots	0.95 0.94 0.89 0.97 0.57 0.88
IPSL-CM5A-LR	306.1 -24.0 29.4 0.6	access to plots	0.92 0.92 0.87 0.96 0.60 0.87
MIROC-ESM	324.3 -5.7 20.4 0.4	access to plots	0.95 0.94 0.91 0.95 0.63 0.89
MPI-ESM-LR	328.2 -1.8 14.9 0.1	access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.91 0.98 0.64 0.90
MRI-ESM1	317.6 -12.5 19.7 0.2	access to plots	0.95 0.94 0.88 0.98 0.63 0.89
NorESM1-ME	320.5 -9.7 19.4 0.2	access to plots	0.96 0.94 0.89 0.98 0.57 0.88

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