Rainfall interception and the coupled surface water and energy balance

AIJM Van Dijk, JH Gash, E Van Gorsel… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2015 - Elsevier
Evaporation from wet canopies (E) can return up to half of incident rainfall back into the
atmosphere and is a major cause of the difference in water use between forests and short …

Trends in water balance components across the Brazilian Cerrado

PTS Oliveira, MA Nearing, MS Moran… - Water Resources …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We assess the water balance of the Brazilian Cerrado based on remotely sensed estimates
of precipitation (TRMM), evapotranspiration (MOD16), and terrestrial water storage (GRACE) …

Urban expansion and its impact on water security: The case of the Paraíba do Sul River Basin, São Paulo, Brazil

AC da Encarnação Paiva, N Nascimento… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Increasing demand for water is one of the most challenging problems that human societies
face today and has encouraged new studies to examine water security and water …

Dynamics of soil exploration by fine roots down to a depth of 10 m throughout the entire rotation in Eucalyptus grandis plantations

JP Laclau, EA Da Silva, G Rodrigues Lambais… - Frontiers in plant …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Although highly weathered soils cover considerable areas in tropical regions, little is known
about exploration by roots in deep soil layers. Intensively managed Eucalyptus plantations …

The breathing of the Andean highlands: Net ecosystem exchange and evapotranspiration over the páramo of southern Ecuador

G Carrillo-Rojas, B Silva, R Rollenbeck… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Atmospheric carbon (CO 2) exchange, evapotranspiration (ET) processes, and their
interactions with climatic drivers across tropical alpine grasslands are poorly understood …

Influence of climatic variations on production, biomass and density of wood in eucalyptus clones of different species

SMG Rocha, GB Vidaurre, JEM Pezzopane… - Forest Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The wood production potential that a site presents is largely represented by its climatic
condition and by the affinity of its genetic material. An issue which concerns all wood …

Actual evapotranspiration in the high Andean grasslands: A comparison of measurement and estimation methods

A Ochoa-Sánchez, P Crespo, G Carrillo-Rojas… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Actual evapotranspiration (ETa) explains the exchange of water and energy between soil,
land surface, and atmosphere. Despite its importance, it remains difficult to measure directly …

Effects of Eucalyptus plantations on streamflow in Brazil: Moving beyond the water use debate

SF de Barros Ferraz, CB Rodrigues, LG Garcia… - Forest Ecology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Eucalyptus plantations play an important role in the Brazilian economy, and they are
commonly associated with their high water use, which may have negative impacts on water …

Closure and partitioning of the energy balance in a preserved area of a Brazilian seasonally dry tropical forest

S Campos, KR Mendes, LL da Silva, PR Mutti… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2019 - Elsevier
The energy balance closure obtained through the eddy covariance method is a problem
which persists, despite advances in the development and improvement of instruments and …

Are remote sensing evapotranspiration models reliable across South American ecoregions?

DCD Melo, JAA Anache, VP Borges… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many remote sensing‐based evapotranspiration (RSBET) algorithms have been proposed
in the past decades and evaluated using flux tower data, mainly over North America and …