Isotope Tracers in Catchment Hydrology

This book represents a new "earth systems" approach to catchments that encompasses the physical and biogeochemical interactions that control the hydrology and biogeochemistry of the system. The text provides a comprehensive treatment of the fundamentals of catchment hydrology, principles of isotope geochemistry, and the isotope variability in the hydrologic cycle -- but the main focus of the book is on case studies in isotope hydrology and isotope geochemistry that explore the applications of isotope techniques for investigating modern environmental problems.

Isotope Tracers in Catchment Hydrology is the first synthesis of physical hydrology and isotope geochemistry with catchment focus, and is a valuable reference for professionals and students alike in the fields of hydrology, hydrochemistry, and environmental science. This important interdisciplinary text provides extensive guidelines for the application of isotope techniques for all investigatores facing the challenge of protecting precious water, soil, and ecological resources from the ever-increasing problems associated with population growth and environmental change, including those from urban development and agricultural land uses.

I. Basic Principles. Fundamentals of small catchment hydrology (J.M. Buttle). Fundamentals of isotope geochemistry (C. Kendall, E.A. Caldwell). II. Processes Affecting Isotopic Compositions. Isotopic variations in precipitation (N.L. Ingraham). Isotopic fractionation in snow cover (L.W. Cooper). Isotopic exchange in soil water (C.J. Barnes, J.V. Turner). Plants, isotopes and water use: a catchment-scale perspective (T.E. Dawson, J.R. Ehleringer). Isotopes in groundwater hydrology (R. Gonfiantini et al.). Lithogenic and cosmogenic tracers in catchment hydrology (G.J. Nimz). Dissolved gases in subsurface hydrology (D.K. Solomon, P.G. Cook, W.E. Sanford). III. Case Studies in Isotope Hydrology. Oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in rainfall-runoff studies (D.P. Genereux, R.P. Hooper). High Rainfall, response-dominated catchment: a comparative study of experiments in tropical northeast Queensland with temperate New Zealand (M. Bonell, et al.). Snowmelt-dominated systems (A. Rodhe). Arid catchment (N.L. Ingraham, E.A. Caldwell, B.Th. Verhagen). Groundwater and surface-water interactions in riparian and lake-dominated systems (J.F. Walker, D.P. Krabbenhoft). IV. Case Studies in Isotope Geochemistry. Use of stable isotopes in evaluating sulfur biogeochemistry of forest ecosystems (M.J. Mitchell et al.).Tracing nitrogen sources and cycles in catchment (C. Kendall). Carbon cycling in terrestrial environments (Y. Wang et al.). Tracing of weathering reactions and water flowpaths: a multi-isotope approach (T.D. Bullen, C. Kendall). Erosion, weathering and sedimentation (P.R. Bierman et al.). Applications of uranium-and thorium-series radionuclides in catchment hydrology studies (T. F. Kraemer, D.P. Genereux). V. Synthesis. Modeling of isotopes and hydrogeochemical responses in catchment hydrology (J.V. Turner, C.J. Barnes). Isotopes as indicators of environmental change (J.B. Shanley et al).