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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-
• Gat, Joel, 1926-
• Froehlich, Klaus F. O.

Description

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

Summary

Environmental isotope and nuclear techniques provide unmatched insights into the processes governing the water cycle and its variability under past and present climates. This monograph is recommended to advanced students and specialists and presents historical perspective, state of the art applications and new developments of isotopes in hydrology, environmental disciplines and climate change studies. The spectrum of isotope applications addressed in this monograph ranges from the assessment of groundwater resources in terms of recharge and flow regime, identification of palaeogroundwater, water balance of river basins and lakes, to studies of the past and present global environmental and climate changes. The contributions are written by renowned specialists in the various application fields.

Subjects

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

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

OCLC

• 62185954
• SCSB-10483182

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