Comparison of passive fog gauges for determining fog duration and fog interception by a Puerto Rican elfin cloud forest

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 367-373

  Holwerda, F ^a   Bruijnzeel, L A ^a   Scatena, F N ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Elfin cloud forest; Fog duration; Fog gauges; Fog interception

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VALUES; CANOPY STORAGE; CLOUD FOREST; CONVERSION FACTOR; DENSE FOG; EVAPORATION LOSS; FOG EVENTS; FOG GAUGES; FOG INTERCEPTION; FOREST CANOPIES; THROUGHFALL; TIME LAG;

FORESTRY; GAGES;

FOG;

CANOPY; CLOUD FOREST; EVAPORATION; FOG; GAUGE; INTERCEPTION; THROUGHFALL;

EVAPORATION; FOGGING; FORESTRY; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 78751479360     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7641     Document Type: Article

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