Using eddy covariance and stable isotope mass balance techniques to estimate fog water contributions to a Costa Rican cloud forest during the dry season

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 429-437

  Schmid, S ^a   Burkard, R ^a   Frumau, K F A ^b   Tobon C ^b   Bruijnzeel, L A ^b   Siegwolf, R ^c   Eugster, W ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Fog; Interception; Stable isotope tracer; Tropical montane cloud forest

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FOREST; COSTA RICA; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; DRY SEASONS; EDDY COVARIANCE; FOG DEPOSITION; FOG WATER; HIGH WINDS; INTERCEPTION; MASS BALANCE; MASS BALANCE MODEL; NUMBER OF SAMPLES; STABLE ISOTOPE TRACERS; STABLE ISOTOPES; STANDARD ERRORS; STEMFLOW; THROUGHFALL; TROPICAL MONTANE CLOUD FOREST;

DEPOSITION; DROUGHT; ESTIMATION; ISOTOPES; RAIN; TROPICS;

FOG;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CLOUD FOREST; EDDY COVARIANCE; EVAPORATION; FOG; INTERCEPTION; MASS BALANCE; MONTANE FOREST; STABLE ISOTOPE; STEMFLOW; THROUGHFALL; TRACER; TROPICAL FOREST;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 78751553200     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7739     Document Type: Article

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