Canopy interception plays an important role in determining the amount of rainfall reaching the forest floor. During a rainfall event, water either penetrates the canopy falling directly to the understory of the forest floor, or is intercepted by the canopy. From there it can drip to the ground surface, flow down tree stems, or be held and evaporated. The portion that falls directly to the groun...

At present, researches on urban short-duration rainstorm patterns mainly focus single-peak patterns, and rarely involve double-peak or convert into directly, even ignore the impact of which directly affects flood planning early warning rescue. To scientifically rationally deduce rain pattern, this paper proposes a new function fitting pattern method by constructing virtual peak rainfall coeffic...

over the past decades, the fallout radionuclides 137cs, 210pbex and 7be are increasingly being used to quantify soil erosion and sedimentation rates. although studies using 137cs and to some extent 210pbex are now well-documented, there is a need for further work aimed at exploring the use of 7be, particularly in arid and semi-arid areas. investigating soil erosion processes occurring over shor...

Accurate and consistent rainfall observations are vital for climatological studies in support of better planning and decision making. However, estimation of accurate spatial rainfall is limited by sparse rain gauge distributions. Satellite rainfall products can thus potentially play a role in spatial rainfall estimation but their skill and uncertainties need to be under-stood across spatialtime...

Restoration efforts in Florida's Everglades focus on preserving and restoring this unique wetland's natural landscape. Because most of the Everglades is a freshwater peatland, it requires surplus rainfall to remain a peatland. Restoration plans generally assume a stable climate, yet projections of altered climate over a 50-year time horizon suggest that this assumption may be inappropriate. Usi...

[1] We reexamine the scaling structure of temporal rainfall using wavelet-based methodologies which, as we demonstrate, offer important advantages compared to the more traditional multifractal approaches such as box counting and structure function techniques. In particular, we explore two methods based on the Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) and the Wavelet Transform Modulus Maxima (WTMM): th...