 This paper presents a new strategy to derive daily evaporation at a global scale and 0.25 degree spatial resolution, using satellite observations, which combines a minimalistic priestly and Taylor, PT, evaporation model with microwave-derived soil moisture, land surface temperature, and vegetation density, as well as detailed estimation of rainfall interception loss. The approach is validated against one year of eddy covariance measurements from 43 stations, showing good model performance in all vegetation types and climate conditions with an average correlation coefficient of ANDLT, INGT, ANDLT, span style equals text decoration, overline NGT, R&LT slash span NGT, ANDLT slash INGT equals 0.83, and presents a low average bias, minus 5%. The study also presents the first global map of annual evaporation developed through this methodology. This article was authored by D. G. Mirales, T. R. H. Holmes, R. A. M. Dejeu, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.