Snow Stable Isotope Composition Variability Related to the Upper Mendoza River Basin Hypsometry

• Published in: International Journal of Advanced Research in Chemical Science
• Main Authors: Crespo, Sebastián Andrés, Aranibar, Julieta Nelida, Navarro, Gonzalo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Academicians' Research Center
• Subjects: STABLE ISOTOPES; SNOW; CORDILLERA PRINCIPAL; MENDOZA RIVER; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentino; Argentina; Valparaíso; Julieta; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/57455

The water supply of the northern oasis of the Mendoza province, in the central western of Argentina, depends mainly on the melting of precipitated and accumulated snow during the winter, which supplies water for domestic, industrial and energy consumption to 64% of the provincial population (more th...