Relationships between rainfall, fog and throughfall at a hill evergreen forest site in northern Thailand

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 384-391

  Tanaka, Nobuaki ^a   Kuraji, Koichiro ^a   Tantasirin, Chatchai ^b   Takizawa, Hideki ^c   Tangtham, Nipon ^b   Suzuki, Masakazu ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fog gauge performance; Fog induced canopy drip; Montane forest; Northern Thailand; Throughfall; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

FOG GAUGES; MONTANE FORESTS; NORTHERN THAILAND; THROUGHFALL; WIND SPEED;

GAGES; RAIN; SPEED; WIND EFFECTS;

FOG;

CANOPY; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOG; GAUGE; MONTANE FOREST; RAINFALL; THROUGHFALL; WIND VELOCITY;

THAILAND;

EID: 78751510731     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7729     Document Type: Article

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