Mueller, B., Seneviratne, S. I., Jimenez, C., Corti, T., Hirschi, M., Balsamo, G., Ciais, P., Dirmeyer, P., Fisher, J. B., Guo, Z., Jung, M., Maignan, F., McCabe, M. F., Reichle, R., Reichstein, M., Rodell, M., Sheffield, J., Teuling et al

Geophysical Research Letters

Published date March 18, 2011

Evaluation of global observations-based evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 simulations

  • States several recently developed products now provide the capacity to estimate ET at global scales
  • Provides an overview and evaluation of 41 global land ET datasets for the 1989–1995 time period
  • Evaluates the IPCC AR4 global climate model (GCM) simulations and provides an assessment of their capacity to reproduce flux behavior relative to observations-based products
  • Finds the IPCC AR4 simulations, in their global average, show a smaller spread than the categories and groups that are partly based on observations, except for LSMs from the GSWP, which are driven with common forcing data

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