Strong influence of water vapor source dynamics on stable isotopes in precipitation observed in Southern Meghalaya, NE India

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 292, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 212-220

  Breitenbach, Sebastian F M ^a,b,c   Adkins, Jess F ^d   Meyer, Hanno ^e   Marwan, Norbert ^f   Kumar, Kanikicharla Krishna ^g   Haug, Gerald H ^b,c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g Indian Institute for Tropical Meteorology   (India)

Author keywords

Bay of Bengal; India; Indian Summer Monsoon; LMWL; precipitation; stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD TRAJECTORY; BAY OF BENGAL; BOX MODELS; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INFLUENCE OF WATER; ISOTOPE VALUES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METEORIC WATERS; RE-EQUILIBRATION; RIVER RUNOFFS; SOURCE REGION; STABLE ISOTOPES; STRONG CORRELATION; SUBTROPICAL REGIONS; SURFACE OCEAN; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRANSPORT DISTANCES; TRANSPORT PATHWAYS; VAPOR SOURCES;

MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; WATER PIPING SYSTEMS; WATER SUPPLY; WATER VAPOR;

ISOTOPES;

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METEORIC WATER; MOISTURE FLUX; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINWATER; SPELEOTHEM; STABLE ISOTOPE; STALAGMITE; SUMMER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; MEGHALAYA;

EID: 77449136479     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.01.038     Document Type: Article

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