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Protrait Alex Vermeulen

Alex Vermeulen

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Protrait Alex Vermeulen

Triple collocation-based merging of multi-source gridded evapotranspiration data in the Nordic Region

Författare

  • Xueying Li
  • Wenxin Zhang
  • Alex Vermeulen
  • Jianzhi Dong
  • Zheng Duan

Summary, in English

Accurate evapotranspiration (ET) data are required for many hydro-meteorological applications. Compared with the traditional evaluation that requires in-situ measurements, the triple collocation (TC) technique estimates geophysical product errors without the need for ground truth, which is especially suitable over large areas lacking a dense in-situ network. However, violations of the zero-error cross-correlation (ECC) assumption are found to be the dominant sources of impairing the TC robustness. This study presents the first application of a TC-based merging framework that optimally considers ECC to merge multi-source gridded ET products in the Nordic Region during 2003–2018. The ECC estimates of each ET dataset pair calculated by the quadruple collocation approach are used to select the qualified triplets from four products, including FLUXCOM, Global Land Surface Satellite (GLASS), Global Land Evaporation and Amsterdam Model (GLEAM), and Penman-Monteith-Leuning Version 2 (PML-V2). Then the ET merged datasets are generated by weighting TC-based rescaled error variances of the parent datasets through least square merging. Finally, the accuracy of both the parent and the merged datasets are assessed with the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) flux data in the Nordic Region based on multiple statistical metrics. Results demonstrate that the ECC values provide intuitive evidence for filtering unqualified TC triplets. Both the absolute and relative error variances (signal-to-noise ratio) are considered for ET dataset evaluation. Overall PML-V2 has the best performance among the evaluated four products. Two merged ET datasets with the reference climatology of FLUXCOM outperform all parent products with the lowest errors by using ICOS data as reference among all sites – indicating the feasibility of TC technique for improving ET accuracy in the Nordic Region. This study also analyses the impacts of reference climatology selection on the TC merged results.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
  • ICOS Sweden

Publiceringsår

2023-05-15

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volym

335

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences

Nyckelord

  • Triple collocation
  • Quadruple collocation
  • ICOS
  • Evapotranspiration
  • Satellite remote sensing

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1873-2240