Comment assesses the performance of a model predicting evaporation, suggesting new insights into its processes.
The performance of the complementary relationship (CR) evaporation model of Zhou and Yu is tested by routine meteorological data and eddy-covariance (EC) derived measurements of monthly LE values from FLUXNET. Results indicate that globally calibrated single-parameter thermodynamics-based CR versions perform significantly better in predicting EC-derived LE fluxes than their similarly calibrated model, thus challenging their physical interpretation of the processes involved
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