PhD student Adnan Majeed (University of Waikato) is investigating creating a statistical model anticipating site evaporation reduction from setting up new windbreaks. The aim is to use data from recorded site evaporation measurements, as opposed to using theoretical expressions like Penman-Monteith.

To this end, he needs to obtain eddy correlation evaporation data from a wide range of sites and look for commonalities for factors influencing evaporation rates under conditions of low wind speed.
Wind speeds tend to be low in the Waikato, so local eddy correlation sites will be useful as a starting point for this investigation, which will be later extended to OzFlux sites generally.

PhD supervisor: Associate Professor Earl Bardsley, University of Waikato. earl.bardsley@waikato.ac.nz 
