Rainfall interception at the intrastorm scale: insights from a mature coniferous forest

Shin' ichi Iida1, Delphis F Levia Jr2, Akira Shimizu3, Takanori Shimizu4, Koji Tamai5, Tatsuhiko Nobuhiro6, Naoki Kabeya3, Shoji Noguchi7, Shinji Sawano1 and Makoto Araki4, (1)Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Hokkaido Research Center, Sapporo, Japan, (2)University of Delaware, Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Newark, DE, United States, (3)Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Kyushu Research Centre, Kumamoto, Japan, (4)Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Department of Disaster Prevention, Meteorology and Hydrology, Tsukuba, Japan, (5)Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, (6)Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Hokkaido Research Center, Sapporo, Japan, (7)Forestry & Forest Prod Res Ist, Ibaraki, Japan