Rainfall interception by an evergreen beech forest, Nelson, New Zealand

Rowe, L. K.

doi:10.1016/0022-1694(83)90182-8

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“…On the other hand, the thickness of the tree canopies of P. eldarica, which is greater than that of C. arizonica, can result in higher values of I and S in P. eldarica. As reported by many authors, I:GR values increased as the size of GR events increased; however, as expected, higher I:GR values were observed for smaller GR events in both sites during the study period (Rowe, 1983;Lankreijer et al, 1993;Xiao et al, 2000;Marin et al, 2000;Llorens and Domingo, 2007;Ahmadi et al, 2009). The higher I:GR values for the small GR events are a result of a large portion of incident rainfall retained on the canopy, which evaporates during/after the rainfall.…”

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Is canopy interception increased in semiarid tree plantations? Evidence from a field investigation in Tehran, Iran

Sadeghi¹,

Attarod²,

Pypker³

et al. 2014

Turk J Agric For

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From 30 January 2011 to 30 January 2012, we measured the rainfall interception (I) and canopy storage capacity (S) of individual trees of Pinus eldarica and Cupressus arizonica planted in the Chitgar Forest Park near Tehran, Iran. Gross rainfall (GR) in this semiarid region was measured using the mean of 6 plastic rain gauges placed in an open area adjacent to the trees. To measure throughfall (TF), 20 plastic rain gauges were installed beneath the crowns of 5 individual trees of each species. I was calculated as GR minus TF. S was estimated using indirect methods: the minimum, Gash and Morton, mean, and Pereira methods. The cumulative mean values of relative percentage of I (I:GR) for P. eldarica and C. arizonica trees averaged 44.2% and 34.4%, respectively. Significant negative relationships were observed between the percent of I:GR and GR for P. eldarica (R 2 = 0.63) and C. arizonica (R 2 = 0.67) trees. For P. eldarica, S was estimated to be 1.10 mm, 1.00 mm, 1.09 mm, and 1.05 mm using the minimum, Gash and Morton, mean, and Pereira methods, respectively. For C. arizonica, the corresponding values are 0.58 mm, 0.52 mm, 0.56 mm, and 0.55 mm. This study proposes that in this climate dominated by small storms, planting C. arizonica is preferable to planting P. eldarica. However, the differences in the transpiration of these species should be quantified. Our results also indicated that the I value in this semiarid climate was higher than that of a humid climate.

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Is canopy interception increased in semiarid tree plantations? Evidence from a field investigation in Tehran, Iran

Sadeghi¹,

Attarod²,

Pypker³

et al. 2014

Turk J Agric For

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“…There is an increasing number of studies report that wet canopy evaporation rates inferred from throughfall measurements are much higher than that derived from PenmanMonteith theory (Rowe, 1983;Vrugt et al, 2003;Keim, 2004). Gash and Morton (1978), using the original analytical model with Penman-Monteith equation in England, found that the interception loss was overestimated by 6.9%.…”

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“…Moreover, Gash et al (1980) found large difference between observed and modelled values for three coniferous forests in UK, although the value for the mean evaporation rate was within 20% level of confidence. Rowe (1983) found the Gash model overestimated interception loss by 3.4% in a evergreen mixed forest in New Zealand, while Hörmann et al (1996) concluded, introducing a wind dependent storage capacity, that the Gash model overestimated observed interception loss by 5.4% in beech forests in northern Germany. In our Shaoshan forest study, the total estimated interception loss by combining of the original Gash model and the sparse model overestimated the total measured loss by 13.5%, which is slightly higher than the reported results.…”

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“…The quantitative effects of woodland on water resources are largely dependent on interception loss (Jetten, 1996;Calder and Hall, 1997), since forest canopies typically intercept the majority of rainfall, and control its subsequent evaporation and drainage (Carlyle-Moses and Price, 1999;Barbour et al, 2005). The availability of water directly influences the vitality and growth of forest by limiting the transpiration (Rowe, 1983;Price and Carlyle-Moses, 2003;Cui et al, 2005). If the interception loss models, such as the Gash analytical models, can be applied to the forests in China, this would provide watershed managers with a valuable tool for evaluation of the hydrologic impacts on the forest ecosystem.…”

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Modelling and measurement of two-layer-canopy interception losses in a subtropical evergreen forest of central-south China

Zhang

Zeng

Jiang

et al. 2006

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract.The original Gash analytical model and the sparse Gash's model were combined to simulate rainfall interception losses from the top-and sub-canopy layers in Shaoshan evergreen forest located in central-south China in 2003. The total estimated interception loss from the two canopy layers was 334.1 mm with an overestimation of 39.8 mm or 13.5% of the total measured interception (294.3 mm). The simulated interception losses of the top-and sub-canopy suggested that the simulated interception losses in the stages of "during storms" and "after storms" were in good agreement with the published ones. Both the original Gash model and the sparse model overestimated the interception losses, but the sparse model gave more accurate estimates than the original Gash model.

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“…The smaller value of RI from COSMO may be attributable to the difference in the canopy structure between COSMO and forests. In forest regions, high correlations between RI and certain rainfall quantities such as total rainfall [e.g., Rowe, 1983] and rainfall duration [e.g., Horton, 1919] have been observed. However, there was neither a clear dependency of RI on total rainfall (Figure 3) nor of RI on rainfall duration (Figure 4) in COSMO.…”

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Experimental study on rainfall interception over an outdoor urban‐scale model

Nakayoshi

Moriwaki

Kawai

et al. 2009

Water Resources Research

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[1] Rainfall interception (RI) over an outdoor urban-scale model was investigated from the perspectives of water and energy balance. On average, RI was 6% of the gross rainfall and smaller than typical values in forests. No correlation was found between RI and gross rainfall or rainfall duration unlike the correlations found in forests. Most RI occurred in the first several hours of rainfall, and then RI rapidly decreased with time during a rainfall event. RI was dependent on the saturation deficit at the beginning of the rainfall event. The latent heat for RI was approximately balanced by heat conduction from the concrete surfaces. Differences in the canopy structure are considered as possible reasons for the different behaviors of RI between the present site and forests. Accordingly, three aspects of the canopy structure, i.e., effective wet surface area, efficiency for scalar transfer, and canopy heat capacity, are discussed.Citation: Nakayoshi, M., R. Moriwaki, T. Kawai, and M. Kanda (2009), Experimental study on rainfall interception over an outdoor urban-scale model, Water Resour. Res., 45, W04415,

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Rainfall interception by an evergreen beech forest, Nelson, New Zealand

Cited by 97 publications

References 16 publications

Is canopy interception increased in semiarid tree plantations? Evidence from a field investigation in Tehran, Iran

Is canopy interception increased in semiarid tree plantations? Evidence from a field investigation in Tehran, Iran

Modelling and measurement of two-layer-canopy interception losses in a subtropical evergreen forest of central-south China

Experimental study on rainfall interception over an outdoor urban‐scale model

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