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21 Dec 2014
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The hydrological regime of a forested tropical Andean catchment
K. E. Clark
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
current address: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
M. A. Torres
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
A. J. West
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
R. G. Hilton
Department of Geography, Durham, Durham University, Durham, UK
M. New
African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
A. B. Horwath
Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
J. B. Fisher
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
J. M. Rapp
Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, USA
current address: Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
A. Robles Caceres
Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru
Y. Malhi
Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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This paper presents measurements of the balance of water inputs and outputs over 1 year for a river basin in the Andes of Peru. Our results show that the annual water budget is balanced within a few percent uncertainty; that is to say, the amount of water entering the basin was the same as the amount leaving, providing important information for understanding the water cycle. We also show that seasonal storage of water is important in sustaining the flow of water during the dry season.
This paper presents measurements of the balance of water inputs and outputs over 1 year for a...
