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)	GFED Regions	Global Bias RMSE Seasonal Cycle Spatial Distribution Interannual Variability Overall
Benchmark  [Kato et al. (2013)]	331.5 - - 1.0	access to plots	- - - - - 1.00
MeanModel	322.9 -8.6 15.4 0.3	access to plots	0.96 0.96 0.93 0.98 0.68 0.83
bcc-csm1-1-m	328.8 -2.8 16.5 0.2	access to plots	0.97 0.95 0.94 0.98 0.58 0.80
BNU-ESM	327.9 -3.6 17.5 0.4	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.92 0.98 0.56 0.82
CanESM2	324.6 -6.8 18.9 0.4	access to plots	0.96 0.94 0.91 0.98 0.51 0.81
CESM1-BGC	325.1 -6.4 15.4 0.4	access to plots	0.97 0.95 0.92 0.99 0.59 0.83
GFDL-ESM2G	324.6 -6.9 17.9 0.3	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.91 0.97 0.59 0.80
HadGEM2-ES	322.6 -8.9 16.4 0.2	access to plots	0.96 0.95 0.94 0.98 0.59 0.80
inmcm4	321.5 -10.1 22.4 0.2	access to plots	0.95 0.94 0.93 0.96 0.55 0.78
IPSL-CM5A-LR	306.4 -25.2 30.2 0.6	access to plots	0.92 0.91 0.89 0.96 0.60 0.83
MIROC-ESM	325.9 -5.6 20.3 0.4	access to plots	0.95 0.94 0.92 0.95 0.60 0.81
MPI-ESM-LR	329.6 -1.9 15.4 0.1	access to plots	0.97 0.95 0.93 0.98 0.60 0.78
MRI-ESM1	316.9 -14.7 21.0 0.3	access to plots	0.95 0.94 0.90 0.98 0.62 0.81
NorESM1-ME	321.1 -10.4 19.6 0.3	access to plots	0.96 0.94 0.90 0.98 0.53 0.80

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