Table 2. Reanalysis validation using independent station data.

	R2	s.d.	RMSE	s.d.	MAE	s.d.
Values represent means over all months within the validation period for which station data was available.
Austria-CHELSA	0.43	0.15	32.49	12.71	24.03	9.47
Austria-CRU	0.41	0.15	32.99	12.26	24.09	9.03
Austria-ERA	0.35	0.16	34.55	13.03	25.65	9.75
China-CHELSA	0.61	0.17	30.85	43.87	17.61	12.65
China-CRU	0.60	0.17	36.76	35.08	21.70	26.70
China-ERA	0.48	0.18	34.77	44.18	20.11	13.61
FAO-CHELSA	0.83	0.11	37.66	12.67	18.64	7.08
FAO-CRU	0.73	0.13	48.80	18.28	22.40	8.42
FAO-ERA	0.51	0.11	66.81	20.76	37.82	11.52
Mexico-CHELSA	0.39	0.11	62.37	35.87	37.54	25.59
Mexico-CRU	0.35	0.11	64.21	36.92	38.49	25.86
Mexico-ERA	0.33	0.10	66.32	39.94	41.58	28.67
Scandinavia-CHELSA	0.78	0.22	24.40	14.06	16.38	9.35
Scandinavia-CRU	0.79	0.22	22.79	12.07	15.07	7.80
Scandinavia-ERA	0.62	0.24	33.27	15.36	21.73	9.30