Author(s): Gabriel Perazza; Jimena Alonso; Pablo Pais
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Keywords: Water balance; Eucalyptus; Rainfall interception
Abstract: Uruguay has stimulated the development of its forest sector generating the need of studies about the impact of the production. One of the afforestation effects is the change in the rainfall; this transformation is known as redistribution and the main part is the rainfall interception caused by the canopy. One of the important things to model this phenomenon is perform continuous monitoring programs that allow taking long-term studies. Although there are different strategies require extensive maintenance and are complex to implement. The purpose of this development was the upgrading of equipment used for measurement and quantification of the interception of rainfall minimizing possible sources of measurement error, maintenance and getting more information for further studies. In five months of work the new prototype was successfully built following the upgrading design criteria, increasing the autonomy and improvement the gauge system for the measured. The equipment has had a good performance and it is anticipated further improve according to the needs of data and applications for watershed studies.
Year: 2017