Hydrogen and oxygen stable isotope variations of daily precipitation from 2014-2018 in the central United States

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Stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen (δ2H, δ18O and δ17O) serve as powerful tracers in hydrological investigations. To our knowledge, daily precipitation isotope record especially 17O-excess is rare in the mid-latitudes. To fill such knowledge gap, daily precipitation samples (n = 446) were collected from June 2014 to May 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. A Triple Water Vapor Isotope Analyzer (T-WVIA) based on Off-Axis Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy (OA-ICOS) technique was used to concurrently measure precipitation isotopic variations (δ2H, δ18O and δ17O). Meanwhile, 17O-excess and d-excess as second-order isotopic variables were calculated to provide additional information on precipitation formation and transport mechanisms. This study presents a four-year daily precipitation isotope dataset for mid-latitudes, and makes it available to researchers around the world who may use it as a reference for site comparisons and for global hydrological modeling validation.

Supplement to: Tian, Chao; Wang, Lixin (2019): Stable isotope variations of daily precipitation from 2014–2018 in the central United States. Scientific Data, 6, 190018

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.895300
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2019.18
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.895300
Provenance
Creator Tian, Chao; Wang, Lixin ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2018
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 2676 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-86.270 LON, 39.880 LAT)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-06-04T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-05-19T00:00:00Z