Table 7 Comparison summary for remotely sensed products.

From: A hydrological simulation dataset of the Upper Colorado River Basin from 1983 to 2019

Remotely sensed Product

Variable Measured (unit)

Temporal Coverage

Average Monthly Relative Bias

Average Monthly Spearman’s Rho

Average Monthly POD

Average Monthly FAR

Cloud-free MODIS SCA

SCA (km2)

March 2000–February 2017

0.737

0.193

MODIS SSEBop

Actual ET (mm/month)

March 2000–December 2015

0.050

0.866

CSR GRACE RL06 Mascon

Total water storage change (mm)

April 2002–June 2017

0.069

0.863