Using stable isotopes to determine sources of evaporated water to the atmosphere in the Amazon basin

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 183, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 191-204

  Martinelli, Luiz Antonio ^a   Victoria, Reynaldo Luiz ^a   Sternberg, Leonel Silveira Lobo ^b   Ribeiro, Aristides ^a   Moreira, Marcelo Zacharias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; SOURCE; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER VAPOUR;

SOUTH AMERICA, AMAZON BASIN;

COMPOSITION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GROUNDWATER; ISOTOPES; LAKES; PLANTS (BOTANY); RAIN; RIVERS; VAPORS;

AMAZON BASIN; EVAPORATED WATER SOURCES; METEORIC WATER LINE; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; SOIL WATER; STEMFLOW WATER; WATER CYCLE; WATER VAPOR;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

EID: 0030222653     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-1694(95)02974-5     Document Type: Article

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