 This paper presents a new strategy to derive daily and annual evaporation at a global scale using satellite observations, which combines a minimalistic priestly and Taylor, PT, evaporation model with microwave-derived soil moisture, land surface temperature, vegetation density, and rainfall interception loss estimates. The approach is validated against one year of eddy covariance measurements from 43 stations and presents low average bias and good correlation coefficients for both daily and monthly time series. A global map of annual evaporation is also presented. This article was authored by D. G. Mirales, T. R. H. Holmes, R. A. M. Dejeux, and others.