 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 Presley 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 and presents a low average bias, minus 5%. The first global map of annual evaporation developed through this methodology is also presented. This article was authored by D. G. Mirales, T. R. H. Holmes, R. A. M. Dejeu, and others.