. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Hydrometeorol. 2018 Feb 12;19(No 2):375–392. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-17-0152.1

Table 2.

The average value of the two terms used to calculate the terrestrial and atmospheric coupling indices using data from FLUXNET2015, each model, and averages from various groupings of the models.

	Terrestrial		Atmospheric
	r(SM,LHF)	σ(LHF)	r(SHF,LCL)	σ(LCL)
FLUXNET2015	0.07	21.2 Wm⁻²	0.35	432 m

NL	0.31	18.2	−0.22	221
NC	0.21	21.5	0.13	412
NR	0.22	23.1	0.21	396
ML	0.14	15.9	0.08	366
MC	0.13	14.0	0.02	291
M2	0.11	21.4	0.12	287
M1	0.21	22.1	0.18	340
CL	0.28	19.1	0.24	191
CC	0.18	24.1	0.15	357
EL	0.11	21.6	0.09	371
EC	0.19	17.7	0.08	350
ER	0.05	18.8	0.13	291

All	0.18	19.8	0.10	323
LSMs	0.21	18.7	0.05	287
Coupled	0.18	19.3	0.10	352
Reanalyses	0.15	21.4	0.16	328