Cloud Droplet Deposition in Subalpine Balsam Fir Forests: Hydrological and Chemical Inputs

作者：Gary M. Lovett, William A. Reiners, Richard K. Olson · 发表于：Science · 年份：1982 · DOI：10.1126/science.218.4579.1303 · 被引用次数：324 · 研究领域：Aeolian processes and effects、Atmospheric aerosols and clouds、Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Subalpine forests of the northern Appalachians are subject to significant deposition of water and chemicals via cloud droplet impaction. This deposition has been estimated by a method linking micrometeorological measures of turbulent transfer, a detailed representation of canopy structure, and experimentally derived capture efficiencies. Water inputs from clouds are about 46 percent, and chemical inputs range from 150 to 430 percent of the bulk precipitation.