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Few scientists understand better than H. L. Penman (1963) the complexity of finding out what happens to the rain:
“With few exceptions, they [i.e., field measurements] involve small differences between large quantities (of water) that cannot be measured with precision—rainfall, interception, surface runoff, streamflow, soil water content, stored water, deep percolation.”
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Helvey, J.D., Patric, J.H. (1988). Research on Interception Losses and Soil Moisture Relationships. In: Swank, W.T., Crossley, D.A. (eds) Forest Hydrology and Ecology at Coweeta. Ecological Studies, vol 66. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3732-7_9
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