Evaporation from a tropical rain forest, Luquillo Experimental Forest, eastern Puerto Rico

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2183-2196

  Schellekens, J ^a   Bruijnzeel, L A ^a   Scatena, F N ^b   Bink, N J ^a   Holwerda, F ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PUERTO RICO; RAINFOREST; TRANSPIRATION RATE; TROPICS;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; INTERCEPTION; MICROMETEOROLOGY; RAINFOREST; TROPICAL FOREST;

LUQUILLO FOREST; PUERTO RICO;

BUDGET CONTROL; CATCHMENTS; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RAIN;

AERODYNAMIC RESISTANCE; MICROMETEOROLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATIONS; RAINFALL INTERCEPTION; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; TROPICAL CONDITIONS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; WET CANOPY EVAPORATION;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0033865259     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000WR900074     Document Type: Article

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