A 9-year record of stable isotope ratios of precipitation in Eastern Hungary: Implications on isotope hydrology and regional palaeoclimatology

Use of stable water isotopes to identify hydrological processes of meteoric water in montane catchments

“…The relative importance of summer and winter precipitation to stream water is always inferred by the d E value of studied water because d E is often employed as a source indicator of the precipitating air mass (e.g. Clark and Fritz, ; Vodila et al ., ; Stumpp et al ., ). Although the d E value of precipitation exhibits significant seasonal diversity with a relatively high value of about 14‰ for winter compared with about 9‰ for summer precipitation (Table ), the average d E values of stream water for each stream basin are similar between summer‐rainy and winter‐dry months and at about 13‰ (Table ).…”

“…In recent years, hydrogen and oxygen isotopes in water molecules have proven to be very useful tools for meteorological, hydrological, and water resource studies. For example, these isotopes have been used to trace air‐mass sources of regional precipitation (Peng et al ., ; Vodila et al ., ; Stumpp et al ., ), reveal climate variations (Liu et al ., ; Langebroek et al ., ; Hughes and Crawford, ), evaluate the extent of evapotranspiration (Tsujimura and Tanaka, ; Wang and Yakir, ; Rothfuss et al ., ; Peng et al ., ; Rothfuss et al ., ), revise stream water generation (Jeelani et al ., ; Meriano et al ., ; Klaus and McDonnell, ; Dahlke et al ., ), identify groundwater recharge (Praamsma et al , ; Peng et al ., ; Peng et al ., ) and discharge (Peng et al ., ; Bertrand et al ., ), and study the hydrological relations between different water bodies (Wassenaar et al ., ; Mohammed et al ., ).…”

Can monsoon moisture arrive in the Qilian Mountains in summer?

“…The isotopic ratios of oxygen and hydrogen ( 18 O/ 16 O and 2 H/ 1 H, respectively) are powerful tools in studying climatic processes because of their wide variations in time and space (Dansgaard, 1964;Vodila et al, 2011;Aggarwal et al, 2012;Hughes and Crawford, 2013). Their variability in natural archives of precipitation is also valuable in hydrological studies (Yang et al, 2011;Kong and Pang, 2012).…”

Isotopic composition of precipitation at the station Ljubljana (Reaktor), Slovenia – period 2007–2010

“…The data constitute an important input into isotope investigations and were used in evaluations of GNIP data (e. g. rozanskI et al, 1993;IchIyanagI, 2007;hughes & crawford, 2012), and in many hydrological and hydrogeological investigations (e. g. krajcar BronI] et al., 1998;PezdI^, 1999PezdI^, , 2003Bren^I^ & Vre^a, 2006;Vre^a et al, 2006Vre^a et al, , 2008ogrInc et al, 2008;VodIla et al, 2011;kandu^ et al, 2012;zaVadlaV et al, 2012;cerar & urBanc, 2013;MarkoVI] et al, 2013;Mezga et al, 2014).…”