Table 3 Estimations of mean annual maximum wetland extent and standard deviation (in Mkm2 units) for global and three latitude zones from simulations based on seven soil moisture data, with the parameters calibrated against GIEMS-2, RFW, SWAMPS, and G2017 (denoted as SGIEMS-2, SRFW, SSWAMPS, and SG2017) respectively.

From: Gridded maps of wetlands dynamics over mid-low latitudes for 1980–2020 based on TOPMODEL

Simulations

Soil moisture data

Global

60° S–30°N

30°N–50°N

50°N–90°N

Area

SD

Area

SD

Area

SD

Area

SD

SGIEMS-2

NCEP-DOE

3.3

0.10

1.9

0.09

0.7

0.02

0.9

0.07

MERRA-Land

4.3

0.15

2.2

0.11

0.9

0.03

1.3

0.07

MERRA-2

4.1

0.14

2.0

0.11

0.9

0.03

1.4

0.07

ERA5

4.3

0.10

2.2

0.07

0.9

0.04

1.3

0.04

ERA5-Land

4.5

0.10

2.3

0.08

0.9

0.04

1.4

0.04

GLDAS-Noahv2.0

4.8

0.09

2.5

0.06

1.0

0.03

1.4

0.05

GLDAS-Noahv2.1

4.7

0.13

2.5

0.11

1.0

0.03

1.4

0.05

SRFW

NCEP-DOE

3.4

0.11

1.7

0.06

0.6

0.03

1.2

0.08

MERRA-Land

4.6

0.15

2.2

0.10

0.9

0.03

1.6

0.09

MERRA-2

4.4

0.16

2.0

0.10

0.8

0.03

1.7

0.09

ERA5

4.3

0.09

2.1

0.06

0.8

0.04

1.5

0.05

ERA5-Land

4.5

0.09

2.1

0.07

0.8

0.03

1.7

0.04

GLDAS-Noahv2.0

4.9

0.08

2.3

0.05

0.9

0.03

1.7

0.05

GLDAS-Noahv2.1

4.7

0.13

2.3

0.10

0.9

0.02

1.6

0.06

SWAD2M

NCEP-DOE

4.0

0.16

1.9

0.08

0.7

0.07

1.6

0.11

MERRA-Land

5.3

0.19

2.1

0.11

1.2

0.04

2.2

0.11

MERRA-2

5.1

0.17

1.8

0.10

1.2

0.04

2.3

0.11

ERA5

5.3

0.12

2.3

0.07

1.1

0.05

2.2

0.06

ERA5-Land

5.6

0.15

2.3

0.09

1.1

0.06

2.4

0.05

GLDAS-Noahv2.0

5.6

0.11

2.3

0.06

1.2

0.03

2.4

0.07

GLDAS-Noahv2.1

5.3

0.17

2.2

0.14

1.1

0.04

2.2

0.08

SG2017

NCEP-DOE

1.6

0.07

MERRA-Land

1.7

0.09

MERRA-2

1.5

0.09

ERA5

1.8

0.06

ERA5-Land

1.8

0.07

GLDAS-Noahv2.0

1.8

0.04

GLDAS-Noahv2.1

1.8

0.09

  1. Note that the global and regional wetland area shown here are computed as mean annual maximum of global/regional total wetland extent, which is smaller than that computed at grid scale in the Methods section. Besides, SG2017 only cover 60°S–40°N.