Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 14, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su142114577
Keywords
reference evapotranspiration; reanalysis dataset; CLDAS; machine learning; limited meteorological data
Funding
- Science and Technology Project of the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education [GJJ180925]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51979133, 51769010]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi province in China [20181BBG78078, 20212BDH80016]
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This study evaluates the performance of China Meteorological Administration Land Data Assimilation System (CLDAS) and two simplified machine learning models in estimating ET0 when there is insufficient meteorological data in China. The results show that both methods have different levels of accuracy when certain data are missing in the weather station, and provide solutions for the estimation.
The accurate calculation of reference evapotranspiration (ET0) is the fundamental basis for the sustainable use of water resources and drought assessment. In this study, we evaluate the performance of the second-generation China Meteorological Administration Land Data Assimilation System (CLDAS) and two simplified machine learning models to estimate ET0 when meteorological data are insufficient in China. The results show that, when a weather station lacks global solar radiation (R-s) data, the machine learning methods obtain better results in their estimation of ET0. However, when the meteorological station lacks relative humidity (RH) and 2 m wind speed (U-2) data, using RHCLD and U-2CLD from the CLDAS to estimate ET0 and to replace the meteorological station data obtains better results. When all the data from the meteorological station are missing, estimating ET0 using the CLDAS data still produces relevant results. In addition, the PM-CLDAS method (a calculation method based on the Penman-Monteith formula and using the CLDAS data) exhibits a relatively stable performance under different combinations of meteorological inputs, except in the southern humid tropical zone and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau zone.
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