Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 30, issue 4
Articles | Volume 30, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-965-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-965-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 30, issue 4
Research article
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18 Feb 2026
Research article |  | 18 Feb 2026

Quantifying evaporation of intercepted rainfall: a hybrid correction approach for eddy-covariance measurements

Stefanie Fischer, Ronald Queck, Christian Bernhofer, and Matthias Mauder

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Accurate estimates of interception are important to assess the water availability in ecosystems. We analyzed rainfall interception for a forest site from plot to stand scale. During interception, eddy-covariance measurements of evaporation were systematically underestimated accounting for 24 % of precipitation, while modelled interception evaporation accounted for 45 %. As a consequence, we developed a hybrid correction approach to fit the evaporation data to both the energy and the water balance.
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