Learning Global Evapotranspiration Dataset Corrections from a Water Cycle Closure Supervision. Hascoet, T., Pellet, V., Aires, F., & Takiguchi, T. Remote Sensing, 16(1):170, December, 2023.
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Evapotranspiration (E) is one of the most uncertain components of the global water cycle (WC). Improving global E estimates is necessary to improve our understanding of climate and its impact on available surface water resources. This work presents a methodology for deriving monthly corrections to global E datasets at 0.25∘ resolution. A principled approach is proposed to firstly use indirect information from the other water components to correct E estimates at the catchment level, and secondly to extend this sparse catchment-level information to global pixel-level corrections using machine learning (ML). Several E satellite products are available, each with its own errors (both random and systematic). Four such global E datasets are used to validate the proposed approach and highlight its ability to extract seasonal and regional systematic biases. The resulting E corrections are shown to accurately generalize WC closure constraints to unseen catchments. With an average deviation of 14% from the original E datasets, the proposed method achieves up to 20% WC residual reduction on the most favorable dataset.
@article{hascoet_learning_2023,
	title = {Learning {Global} {Evapotranspiration} {Dataset} {Corrections} from a {Water} {Cycle} {Closure} {Supervision}},
	volume = {16},
	copyright = {https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
	issn = {2072-4292},
	url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/16/1/170},
	doi = {10.3390/rs16010170},
	abstract = {Evapotranspiration (E) is one of the most uncertain components of the global water cycle (WC). Improving global E estimates is necessary to improve our understanding of climate and its impact on available surface water resources. This work presents a methodology for deriving monthly corrections to global E datasets at 0.25∘ resolution. A principled approach is proposed to firstly use indirect information from the other water components to correct E estimates at the catchment level, and secondly to extend this sparse catchment-level information to global pixel-level corrections using machine learning (ML). Several E satellite products are available, each with its own errors (both random and systematic). Four such global E datasets are used to validate the proposed approach and highlight its ability to extract seasonal and regional systematic biases. The resulting E corrections are shown to accurately generalize WC closure constraints to unseen catchments. With an average deviation of 14\% from the original E datasets, the proposed method achieves up to 20\% WC residual reduction on the most favorable dataset.},
	language = {en},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2024-11-15},
	journal = {Remote Sensing},
	author = {Hascoet, Tristan and Pellet, Victor and Aires, Filipe and Takiguchi, Tetsuya},
	month = dec,
	year = {2023},
	pages = {170},
}

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