Global evapotranspiration datasets and reference data used in "Evaluation of global evapotranspiration products over irrigated areas using multiple reference datasets"

Dataset description This dataset contains the global evapotranspiration (ET) products and reference datasets used in Laluet et al. (2025), Evaluation of global evapotranspiration products over irrigated areas using multiple reference datasets, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. Contents The datasets include: Six global ET products: FLUXCOM (RS) – 2001–2020 GLEAMv4 (v4.2a) – 2000–2024 MOD16A2 (v105) – 2001–2023 ERA5-Land (2024 CDS release) – 2000–2024 SSEBop (v6.1) – 2012–2024 PMLv2 (v0.1.8) – 2000–2023 FAO Global Map of Irrigation Areas (GMIA) OpenET ensemble product (for CONUS only) Shapefiles of the study areas Study regions Contiguous United States (CONUS) Ebro Basin (Spain) Italy (including the Po Valley) South Asia (including the Indus Basin) Processing applied All datasets have been resampled to a 0.1° spatial resolution Aggregated to monthly time steps Coverage FLUXCOM: 2001–2020 GLEAMv4: 2000–2024 MOD16A2: 2001–2023 ERA5-Land: 2000–2024 SSEBop: 2012–2024 PMLv2: 2000–2023 OpenET ensemble product: 2016–2022 Format NetCDF4 (CF-compliant metadata) Licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) Reference paper Laluet, P., Dorigo, W., & Corbari, C. (2025). Evaluation of global evapotranspiration products over irrigated areas using multiple reference datasets. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. [DOI of the paper] Funding This work was carried out with support from the European Space Agency under the Climate Change Initiative – Anthropogenic Water Use (CCI-AWU) precursor project (contract number 4000142449/23/I-NB). Contact [e-mail]