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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-823-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-823-2016
Research article
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23 Feb 2016
Research article |  | 23 Feb 2016

The WACMOS-ET project – Part 2: Evaluation of global terrestrial evaporation data sets

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

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The WACMOS-ET project aims to advance the development of land evaporation estimates on global and regional scales. Evaluation of current evaporation data sets on the global scale showed that they manifest large dissimilarities during conditions of water stress and drought and deficiencies in the way evaporation is partitioned into several components. Different models perform better under different conditions, highlighting the potential for considering biome- or climate-specific model ensembles.