Plots of reported CFR crude (t) and closed case CFR crude (t) for Australia, Austria, Iceland, Israel, New Zealand, and South Korea.

Shown below are plots of the reported closed case CFR crude (t) curve and reported CFR crude (t) curve for Austria, Australia, Iceland, Israel, New Zealand, and South Korea. The dashed gray line is the value which the closed case CFR(t) has converged to. As for Germany ( Fig 1 ), it is seen that the reported closed case CFR(t) curve converges to a near constant value before the CFR crude (t) curve. We found ( Fig 2 , S2 Fig ), that for all countries we examined that the converged value of the closed case CFR was close to the optimum for predicting the CFR crude (t) curve, consistent with it being a good approximation of the true corrected CFR for each country. (PDF)