Direct observation of the evaporation of intercepted water over an old-growth forest in the Eastern Amazon region

17th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 27th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 17th Conference on Biometeorology and Aerobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Czikowsky, Matthew J ^a   Fitzjarrald, David R ^a   Moraes, Osvaldo L L ^b   Sakai, Ricardo K ^a   Acevedo, Otávio C ^b   Da Silva, Rodrigo ^b   Medeiros, Luiz E ^a   Hutyra, Lucy R ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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