Rainfall interception in laurel forest in the Canary Islands

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 73-86

  Aboal, Jesús R ^a   Jiménez, M Soledad ^b   Morales, Domingo ^b   Hernández, José M ^c  

^a Univ Santiago C   (Spain)

^b Fac Farmacia Univ L   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Interception; Laurel forest; Momentum; Saturation

Indexed keywords

FOREST CANOPY; INTERCEPTION; RAINFALL;

CANARY ISLANDS;

EID: 0345493802     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(99)00083-0     Document Type: Article

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