RP3 Drought report – April 2019

New students, an OA for Andy Pitman and some key work on evaporation, the impacts of mesophyll conductance on plant growth, a new algorithm for photosynthesis and future projections of drought made for a strong start to 2019.

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RP3 Drought report – April 2019

March 21, 2019 2:30 pm Published by Climate Extremes Comments Off

Research brief: New formula supersedes Priestley-Taylor equation for evaporation

March 6, 2019 4:23 pm Published by Climate Extremes Comments Off

New research suggests that the concept of maximum evaporation reported here is a natural attribute of an extensive wet evaporating surface. This provides a fundamental new insight as to how radiation, evaporation and temperature are interlinked.