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Diagnostic Summary for Snow Water Equivalent: Model vs. GLOBSNOW

Global Patterns Regional and Seasonal Patterns Scoring (Info)
Annual Mean (kg/m2) Bias (kg/m2) RMSE (kg/m2) Phase Difference (months) Regional Means Global Bias RMSE Seasonal Cycle Spatial Distribution Interannual Variability Overall
Benchmark  [Pulianen (206), Takala et al. (2011)] 9.3 - - 0.0 access to plots - - - - - -
MeanModel 29.5 20.2 7.9 0.7 access to plots 0.74 0.65 0.95 0.32 0.73 0.67
HTESSEL-CaMa 49.9 40.6 7.2 0.5 access to plots 0.73 0.67 0.95 0.06 0.73 0.64
JULES 21.3 12.0 5.9 0.3 access to plots 0.67 0.68 0.96 0.29 0.69 0.66
LISFLOOD 21.1 11.8 9.3 0.9 access to plots 0.70 0.57 0.92 0.79 0.73 0.71
ORCHIDEE 6.9 -2.4 5.7 -0.2 access to plots 0.62 0.66 0.97 0.86 0.66 0.74
PCR-GLOBWB 53.0 43.7 9.8 0.9 access to plots 0.72 0.60 0.92 0.03 0.72 0.60
SURFEX-TRIP 27.1 17.9 6.5 0.5 access to plots 0.73 0.68 0.95 0.26 0.73 0.67
SWBM 26.5 17.2 13.8 0.9 access to plots 0.58 0.42 0.93 0.56 0.75 0.61
W3RA 17.9 8.6 6.3 0.8 access to plots 0.75 0.67 0.94 0.26 0.74 0.67
WaterGAP3 14.5 5.2 7.2 0.8 access to plots 0.70 0.62 0.94 0.86 0.70 0.74
HBV-SIMREG 57.3 48.0 22.8 1.0 access to plots 0.55 0.41 0.91 0.03 0.57 0.48

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

The eartH2Observe project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No. 603608

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