Fig. 1. Location map of the study sites
Fig. 2. Time series of satellite- and reanalysis-datasets with flux tower at three different land cover types; a) cropland, b) grassland, and c) forest areas
Fig. 3. Statistical analysis of seasonal ET of satellite- and reanalysis datasets with flux tower at three different land cover types; a) cropland, b) grassland, and c) forest areas
Fig. 4. Bar chart of weighting factor results from the STS and KGF methods at three different land cover types; a) cropland, b) grassland, and c) forest areas
Fig. 5. Radar chart of statistical analysis of satellite- and reanalysis ET product with merged ET dataset at three different land cover types; a) cropland, b) grassland, and c) forest areas
Table 1. Information of flux tower sites used in this study
Table 2. Information of reanalysis- and satellite based datasets in this study
Table 3. Statistical methods for error evaluation
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