Response to “Comment on fog precipitation and rainfall interception in the natural forests of Madeira Island (Portugal)”

• Autor(a) principal: Prada, Susana
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Sequeira, Miguel Menezes de, Figueira, Celso, Prior, Víctor, Silva, Manuel Oliveira da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/4211
• topic: Fog precipitation; Rainfall correction; High altitude tree heath forest; Groundwater recharge; .; Faculdade de Ciências da Vida; Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia

In this paper we discuss the comments given by Regalado and Ritter (2010) on our previous work (Prada et al., 2009). Here, we demonstrate that rainfall correction does not significantly change the results; make clear why Site 1’s fog precipitation values do not seem to be overestimated due to the low number of gauges; present observational evidence that suggest high water yields in Site 1; and why we consider that fog water may be important for groundwater recharge. We also review different methodological, ecological and climatic factors between Madeira and the Canary Islands’ fog precipitation studies that might explain different values between them (Ritter et al., 2008, 2009).