Isotope tracers in catchment hydrology / edited by Carol Kendall, Jeffrey J. McDonnell

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Isotope tracers have been an important too. in catchment hydrology for the past two decades. Isotope hydrograph separations determined by simple conservative-mixing models have shown repeatedly that streamflow generated during rainfall or snowmelt is supplied largely by water stored in the catchment prior to the event. an insight that has greatly changed how hydrologists view how waters and solutes move from the land surface into streams and groundwater. Other uses of isotopes for tracing physical mixing and biogeochemical transformations have revolutionized our perception of catchments as integrated physical-chemical-biological systems