Table 7 Summary of error metrics for five independent AmeriFlux sites.

From: A high resolution, gridded product for vapor pressure deficit using Daymet

Site

site years

classification

MBE

MAE

RMSE

uRMSE

rPearson

US-Cop

4.5

IGBP: GRA

−0.502

0.530

0.752

0.560

0.965

KG: Bsk*

−0.334

0.396

0.566

0.456

0.965

VPD (TW)

−0.148

0.289

0.405

0.377

0.949

NLDAS

−0.205

0.304

0.413

0.358

0.957

US-Cwt

5.0

IGBP: DBF

0.124

0.188

0.232

0.196

0.721

KG:Dfb

0.114

0.182

0.225

0.194

0.721

VPD (TW)

0.277

0.304

0.373

0.249

0.686

NLDAS

−0.090

0.157

0.211

0.191

0.651

US-MMS

15.1

IGBP: DBF

−0.019

0.170

0.232

0.230

0.855

KG: Cfa

−0.029

0.171

0.232

0.231

0.855

VPD (TW)

0.130

0.204

0.285

0.253

0.838

NLDAS

−0.110

0.230

0.331

0.312

0.721

US-PFa

28.9

IGBP: MF

0.014

0.114

0.164

0.163

0.865

KG: Dfb

0.041

0.119

0.170

0.165

0.865

VPD (TW)

0.147

0.174

0.250

0.202

0.858

NLDAS

−0.053

0.135

0.201

0.194

0.803

US-UMB

14.6

IGBP: DBF

−0.028

0.112

0.161

0.158

0.898

KG: Dfb

−0.035

0.113

0.163

0.159

0.898

VPD (TW)

0.080

0.132

0.191

0.173

0.895

NLDAS

−0.173

0.197

0.298

0.242

0.777

  1. AmeriFlux does not provide climate for US-Cop, but ‘Bsk’ is the climate from the interpolated KG climate65.