Dissolved noble gas and isotopic tracers reveal vulnerability of groundwater in a small, high-elevation catchment to predicted climate changes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Singleton, Michael J ^a   Moran, Jean E ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR BUBBLES; ALLUVIAL AQUIFERS; BEDROCK FRACTURE; BUFFERING CAPACITIES; CARBON ISOTOPES; DEEP FLUIDS; DEEP GROUNDWATERS; DIRECT IMPACT; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; EXCESS AIR; FLOW PATH; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; GROUNDWATER AGES; HYDROLOGICAL SYSTEM; ISOTOPIC TRACER; MEAN ANNUAL AIR TEMPERATURES; NOBLE GAS; RESIDENCE TIME; SIERRA NEVADA; SNOWLINE; SNOWMELT; SOIL RESPIRATION; STREAM WATER; TRAVEL TIME;

AQUIFERS; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HELIUM; INERT GASES; ISOTOPES; RUNOFF;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

AIR TEMPERATURE; BEDROCK; BUFFER ZONE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HELIUM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; RECHARGE; SNOWLINE; SOIL RESPIRATION; STREAM; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TRACER; VULNERABILITY; WATER QUALITY;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649955030     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008718     Document Type: Article

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