Forest evaporation and meteorological data: A test of a complementary theory advection‐aridity approach

Abstract
A relationship between daily forest evaporation and meteorological screen data, based on an extension of a previous complementary theory approach to pasture evaporation, is proposed. The resulting formulation is tested against 800 days of a 5‐year lysimeter record for a eucalypt forest and appears to offer an alternative and plausible formulation of the relationship between the meteorological data and regional evaporation.