GLEAM4: Improving global terrestrial evaporation estimates with hybrid modelling
- 1Ghent University, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Ghent, Belgium
- 2King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Physical Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal, Saudi-Arabia
- 3Vienna University of Technology, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Vienna, Austria
Terrestrial evaporation (E) is a keystone flux linking water, energy and carbon cycles. Consequently, monitoring of E at high temporal and spatial resolution over an extended period is crucial to diagnose climate change and its influence on the acceleration of the global hydrological cycle. As E cannot be directly observed from space, a modelling approach is required to derive E from global, observational remote sensing and meteorological datasets1. The array of available approaches ranges from purely data-driven E retrievals2 to physically-based estimates from traditional land surface models.
In this presentation, we introduce the fourth version of the Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model (GLEAM), a hybrid evaporation model that harnesses the synergy between process-based modelling and machine learning. The conceptual backbone of the model, a soil–vegetation water balance module, is updated from earlier GLEAM versions with new representations of interception loss3, plant access to groundwater4 and potential evaporation. Additionally, earlier empirical evaporative stress functions are replaced by deep neural networks trained on eddy-covariance and sapflow data to better represent the complex physiological response of vegetation to multiple environmental stressors5. Future research directions include the increase in temporal resolution to sub-daily and the training of the stress functions in an end-to-end differentiable modelling framework6.
GLEAM4 continuous, daily datasets at 0.1° spatial resolution covering the period 1980–2023 — including evaporation and its components, soil moisture, potential evaporation and evaporative stress estimates — will be openly available via www.gleam.eu upon publication.
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How to cite: Bonte, O., Miralles, D. G., Koppa, A., Baez-Villanueva, O. M., Tronquo, E., Zhong, F., Hulsman, P., Beck, H., Dorigo, W., and Verhoest, N. E. C.: GLEAM4: Improving global terrestrial evaporation estimates with hybrid modelling , EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-15359, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-15359, 2024.
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