Global evapotranspiration estimates and calibration, validation data for "Improved global estimates of terrestrial evapotranspiration using the MODIS and VIIRS sensors"

Data used in generating results for the paper "Improved global estimates of terrestrial evapotranspiration using the MODIS and VIIRS sensors."

1. MOD16A3H_5km_global_mosaics.zip
2. VNP16A3H_5km_global_mosaics.zip
3. VNP16_MOD16_tower_site_latent_heat_and_drivers_v7.h5
4. SAPFLUXNET_sites_for_MOD16_forward_run_v3.h5
5. OpenET_reserved_CONUS_tower_site_latent_heat_and_drivers_v2.h5

[1] and [2] are ZIP archives containing the global, 5-km simulations of MODIS MOD16 evapotranspiration (ET) and VIIRS VNP16 ET, respectively, both using the parameters in the updated Biome Properties Lookup Table (BPLUT). Other than their 5-km resolution, these global, annual GeoTIFF files are formatted the same as MOD16A3H data; see the User Guide (Table 6.2) for more information. The same scale factors apply to recover geophysical units: multiply the values by 0.1 to obtain [kg H2O m-2 year-1].

[3] is the HDF5 dataset containing all the calibration and validation (Cal-Val) data used in this latest recalibration of MOD16. The dataset and data fields should be self-descriptive, with file-level and dataset-level attributes serving as metadata (description, geophysical units, etc.). [4] and [5] are similar HDF5 files containing the driver data for computing MOD16/VNP16 estimates at SAPFLUXNET sites and at reserved towers from the OpenET inter-comparison, respectively.