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Axel Ritter
Researcher at University of La Laguna
Publications - 59
Citations - 1978
Axel Ritter is an academic researcher from University of La Laguna. The author has contributed to research in topics: Soil water & Cloud forest. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 55 publications receiving 1650 citations. Previous affiliations of Axel Ritter include University of Florida.
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Performance evaluation of hydrological models: Statistical significance for reducing subjectivity in goodness-of-fit assessments
Axel Ritter,Rafael Muñoz-Carpena +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed to use a combination of graphical results, absolute value error statistics (i.e. root mean square error), and normalized goodness-of-fit statistics (e.g. Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency coefficient, NSE) for quantifying the goodness of observations against model-calculated values.
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Using inverse methods for estimating soil hydraulic properties from field data as an alternative to direct methods
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared two inverse methods: the traditional "trial and error" method and an inverse method using a global search algorithm referred to as the global multilevel coordinate search combined sequentially with the Nelder-Mead simplex algorithm.
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Dynamic factor analysis of groundwater quality trends in an agricultural area adjacent to Everglades National Park.
TL;DR: Dynamic factor analysis results showed that groundwater concentration of three of the agrochemical species studied were affected by the same explanatory variables (water table depth, enriched topsoil, and occurrence of a leaching rainfall event, in order of decreasing relative importance).
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Fog Water Collection in a Subtropical Elfin Laurel Forest of the Garajonay National Park (Canary Islands): A Combined Approach Using Artificial Fog Catchers and a Physically Based Impaction Model
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the potential contribution of fog water captured by needle-leafed Erica arborea L. trees in a selected watershed of the Garajonay National Park (La Gomera Island) for a 2-yr period (February 2003-January 2005).
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Fog reduces transpiration in tree species of the Canarian relict heath-laurel cloud forest (Garajonay National Park, Spain).
TL;DR: The cooler, wetter and shaded microenvironment provided by the cloud immersion belt represents a large-scale effect that is crucial for reducing the transpirational water loss of trees that have profligate water use, such as those of the 'laurisilva' cloud forests of the Canary Islands.