Articles | Volume 16, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-16-4693-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-16-4693-2012
Research article
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18 Dec 2012
Research article |  | 18 Dec 2012

Modelling canopy and litter interception in commercial forest plantations in South Africa using the Variable Storage Gash model and idealised drying curves

H. H. Bulcock and G. P. W. Jewitt

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