In 1893, two foresters argued that every published forest-rainfall measurement was "at least 100% too high" because everyone forgot to measure water running down tree stems. A full English translation is available.
I translated a debate from the first IUFRO congress (Mariabrunn, 1893) that I think anyone into interception or canopy water balance will enjoy. Two guys ...a grizzled Prussian forestry official (Ney) and a young meteorologist (Hoppe)... go back and forth about stemflow before the word "stemflow" even existed. Here is the preprint.
u/YchromosomalAdam — 10 days ago