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Revisiting the contribution of transpiration to global terrestrial evapotranspiration
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Even though knowing the contributions of transpiration (T), soil and open water evaporation (E), and interception (I) to terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET = T + E + I) is crucial for understanding the hydrological cycle and its connection to ecological processes, the fraction of T is unattainable by traditional measurement techniques over large scales. Previously reported global mean T/(E + T + I) from multiple independent sources, including satellite‐based estimations, reanalysis, land surface models, and isotopic measurements, varies substantially from 24% to 90%. Here we develop a new ET partitioning algorithm, which combines global evapotranspiration estimates and relationships between leaf area index (LAI) and T/(E + T) for different vegetation types, to upscale a wide range of published site‐scale measurements. We show that transpiration accounts for about 57.2% (with standard deviation ± 6.8%) of global terrestrial ET. Our approach bridges the scale gap between site measurements and global model simulations,and can be simply implemented into current global climate models to improve biological CO 2 flux simulations.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wei, Z., Yoshimura, K., Wang, L., Miralles, D. G., Jasechko, S., & Lee, X.
- Venue
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2017-03-28
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 2792-2801
- ISSN
- 0094-8276 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-8007
- OpenAlex
- W2600777534
- Cited by
- 532
- References
- 34
- FWCI
- 24.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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