Water balance ET and bias adjustment factor for SSEBop ET across HUC8 basins in the conterminous United States using the WABE method

The water balance equivalence (WABE) method for reducing biases from remote sensing-derived evapotranspiration (RSET) products for large area applications is proposed and implemented across eight-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC8) basins in the conterminous United States (CONUS). These data support the findings of the WABE method that includes climatology (2002-2015 average) observed water balance ET (WBET), synthetic WBET, and bias adjustment factor (BAF) for SSEBop ET for HUC8 basins. The synthetic WBET filled the spatial gaps of observed WBET, constituting 44% of CONUS HUC8 basins, with estimations within 2% at the CONUS and between 1-12% across 18 regions in CONUS. After implementing HUC8-scale bias adjustment factors from the WABE [...]