Monthly MODIS and AVHRR-based land surface evapotranspiration dataset in Qilian Mountain area (ETHi-merge, V1) (1985-2015)

This dataset contains monthly land surface evapotranspiration products in Qilian Mountain area every 5 years from 1985 to 2015. It has 0.05 degree spatial resolution from 1985 to 1995 and 0.01 degree spatial resolution from 2000 to 2015. The dataset was produced based on Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) method by fusing six satellite-derived evapotranspiration products including RS-PM (Mu et al., 2011), SW (Shuttleworth and Wallace., 1985), PT-JPL (Fisher et al., 2008), MS-PT (Yao et al., 2013), SEMI-PM (Wang et al., 2010a) and SIM (Wang et al.2008). The input variables for the evapotranspiration products include MODIS products, GIMMS AVHRR NDVI and China Meteorological Forcing Dataset (He Jie, Yang Kun. China Meteorological Forcing Dataset. Cold and Arid Regions Science Data Center at Lanzhou, 2011. doi:10.3972/westdc.002.2014.db).