Table 1 Input data sources for Deep Forest model development.

From: Long-term gridded land evapotranspiration reconstruction using Deep Forest with high generalizability

Datasets

Variable

Function

CRU TS v4.05

2 m temperature (tmp, degree Celsius), precipitation (pre, mm/month), vapour pressure (vap, hPa), potential ET (pet, mm/day), wet days (wet, days/month), frost days (frs, days/month)

meteorological information

ERA5-Land

surface net solar radiation (rad, J/m2), 10 m wind speed (wnd, m/s), skin temperature (tsk, K), surface pressure (prs, Pa)

meteorological information

NOAA CDR AVHRR LAI and FAPAR v5.0

fAPAR (–), LAI (m2/ m2)

biological information