Tracing increasing tropical Andean glacier melt with stable isotopes in water

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 6955-6960

  Mark, Bryan G ^a   Mckenzie, Jeffrey M ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS MELT; WATER CONTRIBUTIONS; WATER ISOTOPE;

GROUNDWATER; ISOTOPES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

GLACIERS;

GROUND WATER; RUNOFF; STABLE ISOTOPE;

GLACIERS; GROUNDWATER; ISOTOPES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

DISCHARGE; DRY SEASON; GLACIER RETREAT; GROUNDWATER; MAPPING METHOD; MELT; MELTWATER; RUNOFF; STABLE ISOTOPE; STREAM; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; GLACIER; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HYDROLOGY; MEASUREMENT; PERU; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED;

GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ICE; ISOTOPES; PERU; WATER;

ANCASH; ANDES; CALLEJON DE HUAYLAS; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 35348926408     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es071099d     Document Type: Article

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