Oxygen isotope values of precipitation and surface waters in northern Central America (Belize and Guatemala) are dominated by temperature and amount effects

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 435-446

  Lachniet, Matthew S ^a   Patterson, William P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

amount effect; climatology; Guatemala; intertropical convergence zone; stable isotopes; tropical rainfall

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT EFFECT; GUATEMALA; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; STABLE ISOTOPES; TROPICAL RAINFALL;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; RAIN; TROPICS; WATER PIPING SYSTEMS; WATER SUPPLY;

SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATOLOGY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION QUALITY; RAINFALL; STABLE ISOTOPE; SURFACE WATER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA]; CENTRAL AMERICA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 67650547695     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.010     Document Type: Article

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