LandFlux-EVAL
Coordination
S. I. Seneviratne (ETH Zurich), M. Hirschi (ETH Zurich), C. Jimenez (Observatoire de Paris), C. Kummerow (Colorado State University), M. McCabe (University of New South Wales), W. B. Rossow (City College of New York)
Aims
- Evaluation and inter-comparison of existing land evapotranspiration products in the framework of the external page LandFlux initiative of the external page GEWEX Data and Assessment Panel (GDAP).
- Generation of multi-year global merged benchmark synthesis products based on the analyses of existing land evapotranspiration datasets (monthly time scale, time periods 1989-1995 and 1989-2005) and providing ensemble statistics of the underlying data sets.
Merged benchmark synthesis products of evapotranspiration
The calculation and analyses of the products are described in external page Mueller et al. (2013). All types of global datasets that were available to the authors at the time of writing and that cover the mentioned time periods (global) were considered. The full set of merged benchmark synthesis products are available after registration.
Considered datasets:
- Remote sensing products
- Land surface modeling products
- Reanalysis data products (ERA, NCEP, MERRA, JRA)
- Diagnostic estimates (atmospheric water-balance estimates)
- Products derived from ground observations (flux measurements)
Participating institutions (contributing datasets)
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France
LSCE, UMR CEA-CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australia
Publications
Mueller, B., Hirschi, M., Jimenez, C., Ciais, P., Dirmeyer, P. A., Dolman, A. J., Fisher, J. B., Jung, M., Ludwig, F., Maignan, F., Miralles, D., McCabe, M. F., Reichstein, M., Sheffield, J., Wang, K. C., Wood, E. F., Zhang, Y., and Seneviratne, S. I. (2013): Benchmark products for land evapotranspiration: LandFlux-EVAL multi-dataset synthesis, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 3707-3720, doi:10.5194/hess-17-3707-2013. (external page link)
Mueller, B., S.I. Seneviratne, C. Jimenez, T. Corti, M. Hirschi, G. Balsamo, P. Ciais, P. Dirmeyer, J.B. Fisher, Z. Guo, M. Jung, F. Maignan, M.F. McCabe, R. Reichle, M. Reichstein, M. Rodell, J. Sheffield, A. J. Teuling, K. Wang, E.F. Wood, and Y. Zhang (2011): Evaluation of global observations-based evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L06402, doi:10.1029/2010GL046230. (external page link)
Jiménez, C., C. Prigent, B. Mueller, S.I. Seneviratne, M. McCabe, E. Wood, W. Rossow, G. Balsamo, A. Betts, P. Dirmeyer, J. Fisher, M. Jung, M. Kanamitsu, R. Reichle, M. Reichstein, M. Rodell, J. Sheffield, K. Tu, and K. Wang (2011): Global inter-comparison of 12 land surface heat flux estimates. Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2010JD014545. (external page link)
Newsletter contributions
Seneviratne, S.I., C. Jimenez, C. Kummerow, M. McCabe, W. Rossow, E.F. Wood, M. Hirschi, B. Mueller, and A.J. Teuling, 2011: GEWEX-iLEAPS LandFlux/LandFlux-EVAL Mini-Workshop. GEWEX Newsletter, 21 (2).
Seneviratne, S.I., C. Jimenez, C. Kummerow, M. McCabe, W. Rossow, E.F. Wood, M. Hirschi, B. Mueller, and A.J. Teuling, 2011: GEWEX-iLEAPS LandFlux/LandFlux-EVAL Mini-Workshop. ILEAPS Newsletter, 11, 48-50.
Contacts
S. I. Seneviratne: ; M. Hirschi: