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The teachers of the Department of Geography at the University of Murcia Francisco Belmonte and Asunción Romero are the coordinators of "Interception of rainfall by vegetation in Spain" on this important hydrological process by which precipitation is captured and retained by the vegetation and that can be lost by evaporation without reaching the ground.
The book, published by the Euro-Mediterranean Water Institute Foundation, brings together in one volume many scattered work by researchers from several universities and the CSIC over time, which will allow to have an interesting and inclusive joint perspective work done and the information available on the interception.
Evaporation losses occasionally represent a significant fraction of incident rain in all climatic areas.
The values ​​are set globally, according to different studies, between 7% and 50% loss.
In arid and semi-arid regions such as Murcia it can account for between 13% and 50%.
The book will be released this research to a broad professional and academic sector generally interested in hydrology and water resources, but not specialized in this particular process.
Another utility of the work is that the information provided will help develop analytical formulations consistent with the experimental results in different environmental conditions common in Spain and the Mediterranean.
In addition, numerous proven results for local adaptation and reassignment of existing models or develop new approaches consistent with the current availability of information provided.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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