Journal
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
Volume 548, Issue -, Pages 770-783Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.03.009
Keywords
Rainfall; Canopy interception; Wet canopy evaporation; Bark water storage; Japanese cedar
Funding
- Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan
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Canopy interception of rainfall is an important process in the water balance of forests. The intrastorm dynamics of canopy interception is less well understood than event scale interception. Accordingly, armed with measurements of hourly interception intensity (i) from the field, this study is among the first to examine the differences in canopy interception dynamics between the first and second halves of rainfall events to quantify dynamic storage values for a coniferous forest in Japan. At this site, experimental results demonstrated that: (1) the relationship between interception loss (I) and gross rainfall (GR) at the event scale is better explained by a parabolic curve than a linear relationship, and there is a low correlation between rainfall intensity (gr) and i; (2) the ratio of accumulated i during the first half (I-F) to that of gr (GR(F)) was larger than the second half (Is/GRs), with no significant correlations between potential evaporation during first half (PEF) vs I-F or the second half (PEs) vs I-s; and (3) water storage capacity was similar to the magnitude of maximum I. By emphasizing the comparison between IF and Is, this study concludes that the water storage on tree surface is more important than losses by wet canopy evaporation and splash during rain. This study also adds insights into intrastorm interception dynamics of coniferous forests which are necessary to better model and forecast interception losses. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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