Predicting Downward Longwave Radiation for Various Land Use in All-Sky Condition: Northeast Florida

Table 5

Comparison of model predictions with observed all-sky LW_d data in dry season.

Statistical performance	Model
	New	Maykut and Church [7]	Jacobs [8]	Sugita and Brutsaert [20]	Duarte et al. [12]
City of Deland
BIAS (Wm^−2)	−0.18	−5.42	7.05	−10.09	22.37
RMSE (Wm^−2)	10.81	12.78	13.86	18.54	27.86
MAE (Wm^−2)	8.00	9.26	10.99	13.15	24.00
PMRE (%)	2.30	2.64	3.14	3.70	6.77
Orange Creek
BIAS (Wm^−2)	−2.61	−8.06	2.78	−14.10	16.35
RMSE (Wm^−2)	14.45	16.22	15.99	23.71	25.85
MAE (Wm^−2)	10.64	12.27	12.31	16.90	20.48
PMRE (%)	3.19	3.67	3.63	4.95	5.91
Lindsey Citrus
BIAS (Wm^−2)	−0.07	−7.27	6.01	−11.76	22.33
RMSE (Wm^−2)	10.53	13.86	12.64	19.44	26.66
MAE (Wm^−2)	8.03	10.55	9.93	14.40	22.97
PMRE (%)	2.27	2.95	2.81	4.00	6.46
Ocklawaha Prairie
BIAS (Wm^−2)	−0.62	−6.10	4.60	−10.94	18.45
RMSE (Wm^−2)	13.97	15.71	15.27	20.81	25.86
MAE (Wm^−2)	9.76	11.10	11.58	14.99	21.72
PMRE (%)	2.87	3.41	3.23	4.30	6.34