Quantifying recycled moisture fraction in precipitation of an arid region using deuterium excess

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kong, Yanlong ^a,b   Pang, Zhonghe ^a   Froehlich, Klaus ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arid region; Deuterium excess; Eastern Tianshan; Moisture recycling; Sub cloud evaporation

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; DEUTERIUM; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MOISTURE TRANSFER; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEMIARID REGION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; EVAPORATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION QUALITY; RAINDROP;

ALPS; BRAZIL; CHINA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; TIEN SHAN; URUMQI; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84907421539     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusb.v65i0.19251     Document Type: Article

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