Isotopic investigation of river water mixing around the confluence of the Tonle Sap and Mekong rivers

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1351-1358

  Kabeya, Naoki ^a   Kubota, Tayoko ^a   Shimizu, Akira ^a   Nobuhiro, Tatsuhiko ^a   Tsuboyama, Yoshio ^a   Chann, Sophal ^b   Tith, Nara ^b  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Department of Forestry Administration ^*  (Cambodia)

Author keywords

Confluence; Continental river; Mekong River; River water; Stable isotopes; Tonle Sap River; Tracers

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; ISOTOPES; LAKES; OXYGEN; WATER LEVELS;

RIVER WATER MIXING; STABLE ISOTOPE RATIOS; STABLE OXYGEN ISOTOPES;

RIVERS;

FLOW OF WATER; ISOTOPES; LAKES; OXYGEN; RIVERS; WATER LEVELS;

CONFLUENCE; FLOW PATTERN; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MIXING; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PEAK FLOW; RIVER WATER; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACER; WATER LEVEL;

ASIA; CAMBODIA; EURASIA; MEKONG RIVER; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TONLE LAKE;

EID: 43149109510     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6944     Document Type: Article

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