Comparison of terrestrial evapotranspiration estimates using the mass transfer and Penman‐Monteith equations in land surface models

The mass transfer (MT) equation and the Penman‐Monteith (PM) equation are two common approaches used in various land surface models for simulating evapotranspiration (ET). Yet assessments are rarely conducted to determine how well these structurally differing equations simulate ET across various biomes and climatic environments with different canopy upscaling strategies. We evaluated the capacity of models to estimate ET using the MT equation …