ABSTRACT
There are many analytical representations for the interception process, but the most traditional and widely applied is undoubtedly the one proposed by Rutter (1971; 1977;
1975), who formulated interception as follows6:
(5.36)
where, C is the depth of water on the plant canopy [mm], S is the storage capacity of the canopy [mm], k [m/s] and b [1/mm] are drainage parameters, and Q is the rate of precipitation minus the evaporation [mm/h].
