Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014026
Keywords
evapotranspiration; normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); gravity recovery and climate experiment (GRACE) satellites; terrestrial water storage anomaly (TWSA)
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41125004, 31021001]
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We applied a land water mass balance equation over 59 major river basins during 2003-9 to estimate evapotranspiration (ET), using as input terrestrial water storage anomaly (TWSA) data from the GRACE satellites, precipitation and in situ runoff measurements. We found that the terrestrial water storage change cannot be neglected in the estimation of ET on an annual time step, especially in areas with relatively low ET values. We developed a spatial regression model of ET by integrating precipitation, temperature and satellite-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data, and used this model to extrapolate the spatio-temporal patterns of changes in ET from 1982 to 2009. We found that the globally averaged land ET is about 604 mm yr(-1) with a range of 558-650 mm yr(-1). From 1982 to 2009, global land ET was found to increase at a rate of 1.10 mm yr(-2), with the Amazon regions and Southeast Asia showing the highest ET increasing trend. Further analyses, however, show that the increase in global land ET mainly occurred between the 1980s and the 1990s. The trend over the 2000s, its magnitude or even the sign of change substantially depended on the choice of the beginning year. This suggests a non-significant trend in global land ET over the last decade.
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