Table 1 The three meteorological datasets used in this study.

From: Evaporative water loss of 1.42 million global lakes

Dataset

Spatial resolution

Temporal resolution

Developing institute

Link

TerraClimate30

1/24°

Monthly

University of Idaho

http://www.climatologylab.org/terraclimate.html

ERA531

1/4°

Monthly

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/reanalysis-datasets/era5

GLDAS32

1/4°

Monthly

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

https://ldas.gsfc.nasa.gov/gldas