COMPARISON OF EVAPOTRANSPIRATION BY TWO DIFFERENT HIGH RESOLUTION GRIDDED
ANALYSES FOR NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL
evapotranspiration. gridded analyses. high resolution.
Evapotranspiration (ET) is the second most important variable of the hydrological cycle, second only
to precipitation, and influences numerous processes in the atmosphere. Thus, it is interesting to study
the changes of this variable in Northeast Brazil (NEB). The ETP trends in the NEB between 1961-2020
will be analyzed from high resolution 0.1° x 0.1o grid data, constituting more than 2000 points in the
NEB. A cluster analysis will be employed to see how many homogeneous groups the NEB can be
divided into. The trends will be checked using the Mann-Kendall method. These are specific objectives
to assist the main objective of this research which is to evaluate the performance of two sources of ET
data, one provided by reanalysis and the other by remote sensing. The reanalysis source will be the
ET from the ERA5-Land project and the remote sensing source from the MODGroETa project, both at
the same spatial resolution of the observed grid, 0.1° x 0.1o.