Table 2 Statistical error metrics of daily precipitation for the CMFD-S based on evaluation at the 40 removed stations compared with the GLDAS NOAH10SUBP 3H dataset, for the period of 1988–1997 and 1998–2007.

From: The first high-resolution meteorological forcing dataset for land process studies over China

Period

MBE (mm day−1)

RMSE (mm day−1)

R2

GLDAS

CMFD-S

GLDAS

CMFD-S

GLDAS

CMFD-S

1988–1997

−0.27

−0.02

8.15

6.54

0.23

0.47

1998–2007

−0.04

0.13

7.16

6.64

0.39

0.48