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)]	326.7 - - 0.0	access to plots	- - - - - -
MeanModel	319.8 -6.9 12.7 0.4	access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.91 0.99 0.54 0.89
bcc-csm1-1-m	324.7 -2.0 14.2 0.3	access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.92 0.99 0.72 0.92
BNU-ESM	326.0 -0.6 15.3 0.4	access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.91 0.99 0.70 0.91
CanESM2	320.5 -6.2 17.1 0.4	access to plots	0.97 0.95 0.89 0.99 0.72 0.91
CESM1-BGC	320.4 -6.3 13.7 0.5	access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.88 0.99 0.73 0.92
GFDL-ESM2G	320.8 -5.9 15.3 0.4	access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.89 0.99 0.74 0.92
HadGEM2-ES	318.5 -8.2 14.0 0.3	access to plots	0.97 0.96 0.92 0.99 0.77 0.93
inmcm4	320.1 -6.6 18.6 0.1	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.90 0.98 0.71 0.91
IPSL-CM5A-LR	303.5 -23.2 27.7 0.6	access to plots	0.93 0.92 0.87 0.98 0.69 0.88
MIROC-ESM	322.5 -4.2 17.4 0.4	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.91 0.97 0.74 0.91
MPI-ESM-LR	326.7 0.0 12.0 0.2	access to plots	0.98 0.97 0.92 0.99 0.74 0.93
MRI-ESM1	315.8 -10.9 16.8 0.4	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.88 0.98 0.73 0.91
NorESM1-ME	317.6 -9.1 16.6 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.