Advances in Rainfall Interception Process
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecohydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 June 2024 | Viewed by 1700
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rainfall interception process; throughfall dynamics; stemflow response; urban hydrology; soil – water interaction; surface runoff reduction; statistical analysis; water availability; water resources; estimation of dischrage in ungauged points; multicriteria analysis
Interests: rainfall interception; stemflow; throughfall; rainfall partitioning; evapotranspiration; forest hydrology; watershed hydrology; hydrological modeling; hydrological extreme analysis; floods; droughts; nonstationarity of hydrological extremes; climate change impact; water resources
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Interests: ecohydrology; forest hydrology; water cycle; urban hydrology; water capacity; retention on new ecosystems; ecosystem disturbances; retention after fires
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rainfall interception process is an important part of the hydrological cycle, altering the water flow, redistributing its volume, and affecting its dynamics. Although this process is very important in understanding the components of the water cycle, it has been often overlooked in the past. However, today more and more researchers are recognizing the importance of understanding and including the rainfall interception process into their research.
Researchers are trying to model amount of intercepted rainfall for forest catchments, urban areas, irrigation plans, or water protection measures, by including measurements, remote sensing data, or new rainfall interception modules added to the existing models. Vegetation is also increasingly recognised as a nature-based solution due to intercepting rainfall, offering new possibilities for the mitigation of urbanization and climate change influences and ensuring a better living environment. Additionally, vegetation alters drop size distribution, influencing the soil erosion, infiltration, and surface run-off processes. However, the basis for all the modelling are the measurements, which are very important in understanding the process itself. The rainfall partitioning into throughfall, stemflow, and intercepted rainfall is influenced by numerous variables, which are dependent on the location, environment, and the vegetation characteristics. The process is not equal in an urban area, in a forest, a park, on a plantation, or in a field. Single trees, forest stand, bushes, grass, or crops redistribute rainfall differently due to their area, height, storage capacity, leaf area index, and stem characteristics. Additionally, vegetation reacts differently during long wet and foggy weather conditions than during short and intense storm, occurring after longer dry period. Additionally, characteristics of rainfall events, of course, differ between continental, tropical, temperate, or dry climates.
As part of this Special Issue, we are looking for contributions on the broad topic of rainfall interception which would contribute to our knowledge about understanding the process and its components, as well as recognizing numerous influences that this process has as part of the (eco)hydrological cycle.
Dr. Katarina Zabret
Dr. Mojca Šraj
Dr. Anna Klamerus-Iwan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rainfall interception
- throughfall
- stemflow
- urban hydrology
- forest hydrology
- single trees
- ecohydrology
- interception measurements
- interception modelling
- events’ dynamic
- statistical analysis
