Rainfall interception and drop size - Development and calibration of the two-layer stochastic interception model

Tree Physiology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 727-732

  Calder, Ian R ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

canopy wetting; drop volume; kinetic energy; Marshall Palmer distribution; rainfall simulator

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; DROP SIZE; INTERCEPTION MODEL; MODEL CALIBRATION;

SRI LANKA;

EID: 0029659666     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/16.8.727     Document Type: Article

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