Global evapotranspiration over the past three decades: Estimation based on the water balance equation combined with empirical models

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Zeng, Zhenzhong ^a   Piao, Shilong ^a,b   Lin, Xin ^c,d   Yin, Guodong ^a   Peng, Shushi ^a   Ciais, Philippe ^e   Myneni, Ranga B ^f  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

evapotranspiration; gravity recovery and climate experiment (GRACE) satellites; normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); terrestrial water storage anomaly (TWSA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857971108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014026     Document Type: Article

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