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Water stable isotopes in the Yarlungzangbo headwater region and its vicinity of the southwestern Tibetan Plateau Cover

Water stable isotopes in the Yarlungzangbo headwater region and its vicinity of the southwestern Tibetan Plateau

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Volume 68 (2016): Issue 1
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|Jan 2016
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v68.30397 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889
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Language: English
Page range: 30397 - 30397
Submitted on: Nov 13, 2015
Accepted on: May 16, 2016
Published on: Jan 1, 2016
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
water stable isotopes,
Yarlungzangbo headwater region,
moisture sources,
hydroclimate

© 2016 Wei Ren, Tandong Yao, Shiyou Xie, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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