The WACMOS-ET project &ndash; Part 1: Tower-scale evaluation of four remote-sensing-based evapotranspiration algorithms

Michel, D.; Jiménez, C.; Miralles, D. G.; Jung, M.; Hirschi, M.; Ershadi, A.; Martens, B.; McCabe, M. F.; Fisher, J. B.; Mu, Q.; Seneviratne, S. I.; Wood, E. F.; Fernández-Prieto, D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-803-2016

Articles | Volume 20, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-803-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-803-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 2

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23 Feb 2016

Research article |

| 23 Feb 2016

The WACMOS-ET project – Part 1: Tower-scale evaluation of four remote-sensing-based evapotranspiration algorithms

D. Michel, C. Jiménez, D. G. Miralles, M. Jung, M. Hirschi, A. Ershadi, B. Martens, M. F. McCabe, J. B. Fisher, Q. Mu, S. I. Seneviratne, E. F. Wood, and D. Fernández-Prieto

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RC C4886: 'Very good manuscript, minor revisions.', Paul Dirmeyer, 16 Nov 2015
- AC C6065: 'Author reply', Dominik Michel, 11 Jan 2016
SC C4968: 'FAPAR', Kevin Tu, 20 Nov 2015
- SC C5387: 'Reply to comments about the use of PT-JPL concerning FAPAR/FIPAR', Carlos Jimenez, 04 Dec 2015
  - SC C5473: ''Reply to comments about the use of PT-JPL concerning FAPAR/FIPAR'', Kevin Tu, 07 Dec 2015
    - AC C6069: 'Author reply to SC', Dominik Michel, 11 Jan 2016
RC C5653: 'It is not clear how to parameterise the four models', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Dec 2015
- AC C6071: 'Author reply', Dominik Michel, 11 Jan 2016
AC C6076: 'Author comments', Dominik Michel, 11 Jan 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish as is (02 Feb 2016) by Pierre Gentine

AR by Dominik Michel on behalf of the Authors (03 Feb 2016)

Short summary

In this study a common reference input data set from satellite and in situ data is used to run four established evapotranspiration (ET) algorithms using sub-daily and daily input on a tower scale as a testbed for a global ET product. The PT-JPL model and GLEAM provide the best performance for satellite and in situ forcing as well as for the different temporal resolutions. PM-MOD and SEBS perform less well: the PM-MOD model generally underestimates, while SEBS generally overestimates ET.