Dependence of rainfall interception on drop size: 2. Experimental determination of the wetting functions and two-layer stochastic model parameters for five tropical tree species

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 185, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 379-388

  Calder, Ian R ^a   Hall, Robin L ^a   Rosier, Paul T W ^a   Bastable, Heidi G ^a   Prasanna, K T ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; WETTING;

RAINFALL INTERCEPTION; STOCHASTIC INTERCEPTION MODEL; STOCHASTIC WETTING EFFECTS; WATER STORAGE CAPACITY; WETTING FUNCTIONS;

RAIN;

DROP SIZE; INTERCEPTION; KINETIC ENERGY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TREE SPECIES;

EID: 0030274084     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-1694(95)02999-0     Document Type: Article

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3. Calder, I.R., Wright, I.R. and Murdiyarso, D., 1986. A study of evaporation from tropical rainforest - West Java. J. Hydrol., 89: 13-33.
4. Hall, R.L., 1992. An improved numerical implementation of Calder's stochastic model of rainfall interception - a note. J. Hydrol., 140: 389-392.
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6. Hall, R.L., Calder, I.R., Rosier, P.T.W., Swaminath, M.H. and Mumtaz, J., 1992. Measurements and modelling of interception loss in eucalypt plantations in southern India. In: I.R. Calder, R.L. Hall and P.G. Adlard (Editors), Proc. Int. Symp. on the Growth and Water Use of Forest Plantations, Bangalore, 7-11 February 1991. Wiley, Chichester, UK, pp. 167-179.