Abstract
Shuttleworth's analysis of evaporation from partly wet canopies is appropriate only for the unrealistic case of dispersed, minute water droplets. When a more realistic model is used, the predicted range of canopy resistances is consistent with experimental estimates for a pine forest.
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Monteith, J.L. Resistance of a partially wet canopy: Whose equation fails?. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 12, 379–383 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00121475
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00121475