A Critical Evaluation of the Nonparametric Approach to Estimate Terrestrial Evaporation

Table 2

Quantitative computations of model performance with observations from three sites.

Experiments	SMACEX		WATER		HAPEX-Sahel
Site name	WC06		Yingke station		Tiger Bush Site
	LE	H	LE	H	LE	H
N	844	844	344	343	1441	1441
MAD	50.17	50.17	35.17	30.49	47.07	47.07
RMSD	58.26	58.26	51.11	42.45	67.54	67.54
E	0.9	−0.419	0.94	0.58	−9.43	0.59
Slope	0.896	0.844	0.799	0.869	2.004	0.547
Intercept	−30.46	49.17	10.41	21.54	30.64	−9.352
R-Square	0.979	0.645	0.989	0.71	0.447	0.921