Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 23, issue 2
Articles | Volume 23, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-925-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-925-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 23, issue 2
Research article
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18 Feb 2019
Research article |  | 18 Feb 2019

Potential evaporation at eddy-covariance sites across the globe

Wouter H. Maes, Pierre Gentine, Niko E. C. Verhoest, and Diego G. Miralles

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Short summary
Potential evaporation (Ep) is the amount of water an ecosystem would consume if it were not limited by water availability or other stress factors. In this study, we compared several methods to estimate Ep using a global dataset of 107 FLUXNET sites. A simple radiation-driven method calibrated per biome consistently outperformed more complex approaches and makes a suitable tool to investigate the impact of water use and demand, drought severity and biome productivity.
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