Preferential exchange rate effect of isotopic fractionation in a melting snowpack

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 3734-3740

  Zhou, Shiqiao ^a,b   Nakawo, Masayoshi ^c   Hashimoto, Shigemasa ^d   Sakai, Akiko ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Isotopic fractionation; Preferential water flow; Snowmelt; Snowpack

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EXCHANGE RATES; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; LIQUID PHASES; LIQUID WATER; MASS-EXCHANGE PROCESS; PREFERENTIAL WATER FLOW; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; STABLE ISOTOPES; TWO PHASES;

MELTING;

FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER FLOW;

EID: 52149089253     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6977     Document Type: Article

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