Toward an international application of the OpenET ensemble approach based on Landsat and MODIS evapotranspiration estimates: Preliminary results for Brazil

Anderson Ruhoff1, Leonardo Laipelt2, Bruno Comini3, Vanessa De Arruda Souza4, Julia B. Rossi5, Debora Regina Roberti6, Thiago Fontenelle7, Daniel A. C. Ferreira7, Gabriel B Senay8, MacKenzie Friedrichs9, Charles Morton10, Forrest S Melton11 and Tyler Erickson12, (1)UFRGS Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, IPH Institute of Hydraulic Research, Porto Alegre, Brazil, (2)Institute of Hydraulic Research UFGRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, (3)Institute of Hydraulic Research, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, (4)UFRGS, Santa Maria, Brazil, (5)UFRGS Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Institute of Hydraulic Research, Porto Alegre, Brazil, (6)UFSM Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil, (7)ANA Agencia Nacional de Águas, Brasilia, Brazil, (8)U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, EROS/North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Fort Collins, United States, (9)KBR Contractor to the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (10)Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, (11)CSU Monterey Bay, NASA ARC-CREST, Seaside, CA, United States, (12)Google, Earth Outreach, Mountain View, CA, United States