<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pereira, F. L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gash, J. H. C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">David, J. S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">David, T. S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Monteiro, P. R.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Valente, F.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Modelling interception loss from evergreen oak Mediterranean savannas: Application of a tree-based modelling approach</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Agricultural and Forest Meteorology</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gash analytical model</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Isolated trees</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quercus ilex</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">rainfall interception</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Savannas</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wet bulb temperature</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0168192308002906</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">149</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">680 - 688</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In a previous study, it was shown that an isolated, fully saturated tree-crown behaves like a wet bulb, allowing evaporation of intercepted rainfall to be estimated by a simple diffusion equation for water vapour. This observation was taken as the basis for a new approach in modelling interception loss from savanna-type woodland, whereby the ecosystem evaporation is derived by scaling up the evaporation from individual trees, rather than by considering a homogeneous forest cover. Interception loss from isolated trees was estimated by combining the aforementioned equation for water vapour ﬂux with Gash’s analytical model. A new methodology, which avoids the subjectivity inherent in the Leyton method, was used for estimating the crown storage capacity. Modelling performance was evaluated against data from two Mediterranean savanna-type oak woodlands (montados) in southern Portugal. Interception loss estimates were in good agreement with observations in both sites. The proposed modelling approach is physically based, requires only a limited amount of data and should be suitable for the modelling of interception loss in isolated trees and savannatype ecosystems</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3-4</style></issue></record></records></xml>