Evaporation of intercepted rainfall from isolated evergreen oak trees: Do the crowns behave as wet bulbs?

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 149, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 667-679

  Pereira, F L ^a,e   Gash, J H C ^b,c   David, J S ^d,e   Valente, F ^d,e  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE CASTELO BRANCO   (Portugal)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^e Universidade de Lisboa   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Evaporation; Isolated trees; Quercus ilex; Rainfall interception; Surface temperature; Wet bulb temperature

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DIFFUSION; EVAPORATION; EVERGREEN TREE; INTERCEPTION; NET RADIATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; RADIATION BALANCE; RAINFALL; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WATER VAPOR;

ILEX; QUERCUS ILEX;

EID: 59449106236     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2008.10.013     Document Type: Article

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