Simulation of evapotranspiration and drainage from mature and clear-cut deciduous forests and young pine plantation. Swift & R. A. Goldstein, L. W. 1975.
Simulation of evapotranspiration and drainage from mature and clear-cut deciduous forests and young pine plantation. [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
PROSPER, a model for water exchange between soil, plant, and atmosphere, was used to simulate evapotranspiration and annual streamflow for 2 years from a mature oak-hickory forest in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. For a year having unusually high precipitation, simulated streamflow agreed within 1.5 percent with measured streamflow. Additional simulations were made using the same climatic data, but vegetation parameters were changed to represent a regrowing coppice forest after clearcutting, and a young white pine plantation. The predicted changes in streamflow showed good agreement with measured changes determined from watershed experiments at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory.

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