Isotopic composition of precipitation in Poland: a 44-year record
Abstract Isotopic composition of precipitation ( 2 H /1 H and 18 O/ 16 O isotope ratios, tritium content) is nowadays widely used in numerous applications of environmental isotopes—most notably in hydrology, climatology and biogeochemistry. Here we present a long record (44 years) of stable isotope...
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crspringernat:10.1007/s11600-019-00367-2 2023-05-15T17:34:39+02:00 Isotopic composition of precipitation in Poland: a 44-year record Duliński, Marek Różański, Kazimierz Pierchała, Anna Gorczyca, Zbigniew Marzec, Michał Ministry of Science and Higher Education National Science Centre 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11600-019-00367-2 http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11600-019-00367-2.pdf http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11600-019-00367-2/fulltext.html en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Acta Geophysica volume 67, issue 6, page 1637-1648 ISSN 1895-6572 1895-7455 Geophysics journal-article 2019 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-019-00367-2 2022-01-04T08:15:59Z Abstract Isotopic composition of precipitation ( 2 H /1 H and 18 O/ 16 O isotope ratios, tritium content) is nowadays widely used in numerous applications of environmental isotopes—most notably in hydrology, climatology and biogeochemistry. Here we present a long record (44 years) of stable isotope composition and tritium content in monthly precipitation available for the Krakow station (southern Poland). Krakow is the only site in Poland for which long-term record of the isotopic composition of monthly precipitation is available. The tritium data are discussed here in the context of generally declining levels of bomb tritium in the global atmosphere and growing influence of technogenic emissions of this isotope. Two aspects of temporal variability of stable isotope composition of precipitation collected in Krakow are discussed here: (i) seasonality and (ii) interannual changes of δ 18 O and δ 2 H signal. Whereas the seasonality of stable isotope signal is generated mainly by seasonally varying the degree of rainout of air masses bringing moisture from the source regions (subtropical Atlantic Ocean) to the centre of the European continent, the North Atlantic Oscillation seems to govern interannual changes of δ 18 O and δ 2 H on the decadal timescale. Progressing warming of the local atmosphere, in the order of 1.8 °C in the past four decades, leaves its imprint in stable isotope signal measured in Krakow precipitation; the slope of isotope–temperature relationship is in the order of 0.50‰/°C for δ 18 O and 3.5‰/°C for δ 2 H. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation Springer Nature (via Crossref) Acta Geophysica 67 6 1637 1648 |
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Abstract Isotopic composition of precipitation ( 2 H /1 H and 18 O/ 16 O isotope ratios, tritium content) is nowadays widely used in numerous applications of environmental isotopes—most notably in hydrology, climatology and biogeochemistry. Here we present a long record (44 years) of stable isotope composition and tritium content in monthly precipitation available for the Krakow station (southern Poland). Krakow is the only site in Poland for which long-term record of the isotopic composition of monthly precipitation is available. The tritium data are discussed here in the context of generally declining levels of bomb tritium in the global atmosphere and growing influence of technogenic emissions of this isotope. Two aspects of temporal variability of stable isotope composition of precipitation collected in Krakow are discussed here: (i) seasonality and (ii) interannual changes of δ 18 O and δ 2 H signal. Whereas the seasonality of stable isotope signal is generated mainly by seasonally varying the degree of rainout of air masses bringing moisture from the source regions (subtropical Atlantic Ocean) to the centre of the European continent, the North Atlantic Oscillation seems to govern interannual changes of δ 18 O and δ 2 H on the decadal timescale. Progressing warming of the local atmosphere, in the order of 1.8 °C in the past four decades, leaves its imprint in stable isotope signal measured in Krakow precipitation; the slope of isotope–temperature relationship is in the order of 0.50‰/°C for δ 18 O and 3.5‰/°C for δ 2 H. |
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Isotopic composition of precipitation in Poland: a 44-year record |
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Isotopic composition of precipitation in Poland: a 44-year record |
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Isotopic composition of precipitation in Poland: a 44-year record |
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Isotopic composition of precipitation in Poland: a 44-year record |
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Isotopic composition of precipitation in Poland: a 44-year record |
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