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- Title
Satellite Evidence for Increasing in Terrestrial Evapotranspiration over the Contiguous United States from 2001 to 2022.
- Authors
Liu, Lu; Yao, Yunjun; Li, Yufu; Xie, Zijing; Ning, Jing; Yu, Ruiyang; Fan, Jiahui; Kan, Yixi; Zhang, Luna; Xu, Jia
- Abstract
Evapotranspiration (ET) is a key process in the eco-hydrological cycle of a basin and a reliable indicator of climate change. However, the spatiotemporal alterations of ET in the contiguous United States (CONUS) over the recent two decades remain largely uncertain. In this study, we used the recently proposed Priestley–Taylor (PT)-SinRH model to estimate the ET of CONUS during 2001–2022 based on satellite and reanalysis data. The results showed that the PT-SinRH model yielded superior performance at eddy covariance (EC) sites, and the root-mean-square error (RMSE) ranged from 6.0 to 33.5 W/m2, the Kling–Gupta efficiency (KGE) ranged from 0.22 to 0.66. The annual mean value of ET in CONUS from 2001 to 2022, estimated by the PT-SinRH model, was 42.54 W/m2, and the spatial pattern of seasonal and annual ET variations increased from west to east. From 2001 to 2022, seasonal and annual ET of CONUS showed linear trends, with an average increase of 0.76 W/m2/da (p < 0.05). The ET in the east of CONUS exhibited a rate of increase at 1.45 W/m2/da, and the ET in the west of CONUS exhibited a rate of increase at 0.42 W/m2/da (p < 0.05). Importantly, our analysis of ET trends highlights that the change of precipitation (P) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) exerts a significant impact on the change of ET over CONUS.
- Subjects
UNITED States; NORMALIZED difference vegetation index; CONUS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; CLIMATE change
- Publication
Forests (19994907), 2024, Vol 15, Issue 8, p1472
- ISSN
1999-4907
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/f15081472