Use of a large-scale rainfall simulator reveals novel insights into stemflow generation

Delphis F Levia Jr, 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, Shin' ichi Iida, Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Hokkaido Research Center, Sapporo, Japan, Kazuki Nanko, Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Department of Disaster Prevention, Meteorology and Hydrology, Tsukuba, Japan, Xinchao Sun, Tianjin University, School of Earth System Science, Tianjin, China, Yoshinori Shinohara, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan and Naoki Sakai, NIED National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan