“…Several versions of ML models have been developed for evaporation modeling, including evolutionary computing, classical neural networks, kernel models, fuzzy logic, decision trees, deep learning, complementary wavelet-machine learning, and hybrid machine learning, among others (Danandeh Mehr et al, 2018;Fahimi, Yaseen, & El-shafie, 2016;Jing et al, 2019;Yaseen, Sulaiman, Deo, & Chau, 2019). The performance of these models and their hybrid combinations has been impressive in terms of prediction accuracy (Ghorbani, Deo, Karimi, Yaseen, & Terzi, 2017;Yaseen et al, 2018). However, most of these studies primarily focus on investigating the generalized capabilities of ML models in different climates, owing to the fact that each climate has its own characteristics of stochasticity and non-stationarity.…”