Fig. 1: Evapotranspiration patterns across South American wetland complexes.
From: Patterns and drivers of evapotranspiration in South American wetlands
Long-term average evapotranspiration (ET) maps are presented together with climatology of precipitation (P), ET, net radiation (Rn) and flood fraction (Flood). The location of the wetlands in South America are presented together with the continent tree cover map. The wetlands are organized following gradients of climate (from temperate to equatorial) and wetland geomorphology (from interfluvial wetlands to river floodplains, which are more coupled to adjacent rivers). All Y-axes have the same scale, with values provided in the dashed box in the right. Tree cover from MOD44B Version 6 Vegetation Continuous Fields product for 2010, available at https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod44bv006/. Because of persistent cloud cover in the Amazon, ET was not estimated for the months of January to May; however, the available period is representative of the flood maximum and minimum stages, enabling us to understand the seasonal dynamics of ET in this region, while the small ET amplitude in Amazon enables us to estimate its annual rate.
