Relationship between δD and δ18O values of falling snow particles from a separate cloud

Atsuko Sugimoto; Keiji Higuchi; Minoru Kusakabe

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v40i3.15907

Relationship between δD and δ18O values of falling snow particles from a separate cloud

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 40 (1988): Issue 3

By: Atsuko Sugimoto, Keiji Higuchi and Minoru Kusakabe

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|Jan 1988

Abstract

The relationship between δD and δ¹⁸O values (per mille deviation from SMOW) was investigated on falling snow particles from a separate convective cloud collected at 2 stations along a moving cloud trajectory. Observations were made in 1983 in Hokuriku, Japan and in 1985 and 1986 in Hokkaido, Japan. The δD and δ¹⁸O values of snow particles from a separate cloud were linearly related. The values of deuterium excess of observed δD-δ¹⁸O lines were much greater than 10 and differed with each case, while the slope was 8.5-9.6 in 7 of 9 cases.

Such observational results indicated that falling snow particles observed at both stations were produced in a cloud consisting of the air parcels containing initial water vapor having the same isotopic composition and that there was a possibility of kinetic effect in the sublimation process during growth of snow crystals.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v40i3.15907 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889

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Language: English

Page range: 205 - 213

Submitted on: Mar 3, 1987

Accepted on: Aug 20, 1987

Published on: Jan 1, 1988

Published by: Stockholm University Press

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© 1988 Atsuko Sugimoto, Keiji Higuchi, Minoru Kusakabe, published by Stockholm University Press
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