Cloud water in windward and leeward mountain forests: The stable isotope signature of orographic cloud water

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Scholl, M A ^a   Giambelluca, T W ^b   Gingerich, S B ^a   Nullet, M A ^b   Loope, L L ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; RAIN; WATERSHEDS;

CLOUD WATER; LEEWARD MOUNTAIN FORESTS; OROGRAPHIC CLOUD WATER; WINDWARD;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FORESTRY; RAIN; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD WATER; DEFORESTATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MONTANE FOREST; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STABLE ISOTOPE; TRADE WIND;

FORESTRY; RAIN; WATER SHEDS;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; MAUI; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38549122407     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006011     Document Type: Article

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