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Title

Isotopes in the water cycle : past, present and future of a developing science / edited by Pradeep K. Aggarwal, Joel R. Gat and Klaus F.O. Froehlich.

Publication

Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Aggarwal, Pradeep Kumar, 1956-
• Froehlich, Klaus F. O.
• Gat, Joel, 1926-

Description

xv, 381 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Subject

• Aquatic biology
• Climate Change
• Climatic changes
• Environmental Physics
• Freshwater & Marine Ecology
• Geosciences
• Hydraulic engineering
• Hydrogeology
• Hydrologic cycle
• Physical geography
• Pollution
• Radioisotopes in hydrology
• Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Isotope hydrology : a historical perspective from the IAEA / P.K. Aggarwal [and others] -- Isotope and nuclear methodologies -- Injected isotopic tracers for obtaining hydrologic parameters / H. Moser, W. Rauert -- Hydrologic process studies using radionuclides produced by cosmic rays / D. Lal -- Stable oxygen and hydrogen isotopes / L.L. Gourcy, M. Groening, P.K. Aggarwal -- Tritium in the hydrologic cycle / R.L. Michel -- Assessing sources and transformations of sulphate and nitrate in the hydrosphere using isotope techniques / B. Mayer -- Rare gases / H.H. Loosli, R. Purtschert -- U and Th series nuclides in natural waters / A. Kaufman -- Optical isotope ratio measurements in hydrology / E.R. Th. Kerstet, H.A.J. Meijer -- Hydrologic processes and systems -- Some classical concepts of isotope hydrology / J.R. Gat -- Isotopes in lake studies : a historical perspective / K. Froehlich, R. Gonfiantini, K. Rozanski -- A review of isotope applications in catchment hydrology / T. Vitvar, P.K. Aggarwal, J.J. McDonnell -- Contribution of isotopic and nuclear tracers to study of groundwaters / W.M. Edmunds -- Dating of young groundwater / L.N. Plummer -- Dating of old groundwater : history, potential, limits and future / M.A. Geyh -- Geothermal systems / Y.K. Kharaka, R.H. Mariner -- Saline waters / J. Horita -- Hydroclimatic processes and systems -- Isotopes in atmospheric moisture / K. Rozanski -- How much climatic information do water isotopes contain? / G. Hoffmann [and others] -- Stable isotopes through the holocene as recorded in low-latitude, high-altitude ice cores / L.G. Thompson, M.E. Davis -- Groundwater as an archive of climatic and environmental change / W.M. Edmunds -- Isotopic palaeolimnology / F. Gasse.
• Appendices. List of seminal papers on isotope hydrology (the isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen) ; List of papers presented at the 1st IAEA symposium on isotope hydrology (Tokyo, 1963) ; Excerpts from report of 1st IAEA panel on the application of isotope techniques in hydrology.

ISBN

• 140203010X (hd.bd.)
• 9781402030109

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