Evaluation of forest interception estimation in the continental scale Australian Water Resources Assessment - Landscape (AWRA-L) model

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 499, Issue , 2013, Pages 210-223

  Wallace, Jim ^a,b   Macfarlane, Craig ^b   McJannet, Dave ^b   Ellis, Tim ^b   Grigg, Andrew ^c   van Dijk, Albert ^b,d  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c ALCOA INC   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Continental model; Interception; Rainfall rate; Wet canopy evaporation

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIAN CONTINENTS; AUSTRALIAN WATER RESOURCES ASSESSMENTS; BUREAU OF METEOROLOGIES; RAINFALL RATES; SURFACE WATER BALANCES; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; WATER HOLDING CAPACITY; WET CANOPY EVAPORATION;

ESTIMATION; EVAPORATION; FORESTRY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RAIN; SATELLITE INTERCEPTION; STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPORATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INTERCEPTION; LANDSCAPE; LATITUDE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; RAINFOREST; WATER RESOURCE;

EVAPORATION; FOREST CANOPY; PHASE TRANSITION; RAIN; SATELLITES; STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84880994564     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.06.036     Document Type: Article

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