Modelling rainfall interception by a lowland tropical rain forest in northeastern Puerto Rico.

J. Schellekens; F.N. Scatena; L.A. Bruijnzeel; A.J. Wickel

doi:10.1016/S0022-1694(99)00157-2

Modelling rainfall interception by a lowland tropical rain forest in northeastern Puerto Rico.

J. Schellekens, F.N. Scatena, L.A. Bruijnzeel, A.J. Wickel

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Recent surveys of tropical forest water use suggest that rainfall interception by the canopy is largest in wet maritime locations. To investigate the underlying processes at one such location-the Luquillo Experimental Forest in eastern Puerto Rico-66 days of detailed throughfall and above-canopy climatic data were collected in 1996 and analysed using the Rutter and Gash models of rainfall interception. Throughfall occurred on 80% of the days distributed over 80 rainfall events. Measured interception loss was 50% of gross precipitation. When Penman-Monteith based estimates for the wet canopy evaporation rate (0.11 mm h

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	168-184
Journal	Journal of Hydrology
Volume	225
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1694(99)00157-2
Publication status	Published - 1999

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