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Characteristics of fog and fogwater fluxes in a Puerto Rican elfin cloud
- Source :
- Eugster, W, Burkard, R, Holwerda, F, Scatena, F N & Bruijnzeel, L A 2006, ' Characteristics of fog and fogwater fluxes in a Puerto Rican elfin cloud ', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 139, no. 3/4, pp. 288-306 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.07.008, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 139(3/4), 288-306. Elsevier
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- The Luquillo Mountains of northeastern Puerto Rico harbours important fractions of tropical montane cloud forests. Although it is well known that the frequent occurrence of dense fog is a common climatic characteristic of cloud forests around the world, it is poorly understood how fog processes shape and influence these ecosystems. Our study focuses on the physical characteristics of fog and quantifies the fogwater input to elfin cloud forest using direct eddy covariance net flux measurements during a 43-day period in 2002. We used an ultrasonic anemometer–thermometer in combination with a size-resolving cloud droplet spectrometer capable of providing number counts in 40 droplet size classes at a rate of 12.5 times per second. Fog occurred during 85% of the time, and dense fog with a visibility
- Subjects :
- Cloud forest
Atmospheric Science
Global and Planetary Change
biology
Meteorology
Advection
Eddy covariance
Biometeorology
Forestry
biology.organism_classification
Atmospheric sciences
Niebla
Deposition (aerosol physics)
Liquid water content
Environmental science
SDG 14 - Life Below Water
Water cycle
Agronomy and Crop Science
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01681923
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Eugster, W, Burkard, R, Holwerda, F, Scatena, F N & Bruijnzeel, L A 2006, ' Characteristics of fog and fogwater fluxes in a Puerto Rican elfin cloud ', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 139, no. 3/4, pp. 288-306 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.07.008, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 139(3/4), 288-306. Elsevier
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a76d5062e775ab5042d847f1ed086e6d