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Science 24 December 1982:
Vol. 218. no. 4579, pp. 1303 - 1304
DOI: 10.1126/science.218.4579.1303
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Cloud Droplet Deposition in Subalpine Balsam Fir Forests: Hydrological and Chemical Inputs

GARY M. LOVETT 1, WILLIAM A. REINERS 1, and RICHARD K. OLSON 1

1 Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755

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.

Submitted on November 25, 1981
Revised on May 20, 1982


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