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Article Dans Une Revue Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies Année : 2010

Pan-derived isotopic composition of atmospheric vapour in a Mediterranean wetland (Rhone River Delta, France)

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A continuous record of atmospheric vapour isotopic composition (δA) can be derived from the isotope mass balance of a water body submitted to natural evaporation. In this paper, we present preliminary results of the application of this method to a drying evaporation pan, located in a Mediterranean wetland, during a two-month summer period. Results seem consistent with few atmospheric vapour data based on the assumption of isotopic equilibrium with precipitation, but we observed a shift between pan-derived δA and the composition of vapour samples collected by cold trapping. These results suggest that further investigations are necessary to evaluate the effect of diurnal variations of atmospheric conditions on the applicability of the pan-evaporation method, and on the representative of grab atmospheric samples. We also propose a sensitivity analysis for evaluating the impact of the different measured components on δA calculation, and show an improvement in the method efficiency as the pan is drying.
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hal-00799580 , version 1 (12-03-2013)

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Christine Vallet-Coulomb, Olivier Cartapanis, Olivier Radakovitch, Corinne Sonzogni, Marc Pichaud. Pan-derived isotopic composition of atmospheric vapour in a Mediterranean wetland (Rhone River Delta, France). Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 2010, 46 (1), pp.37-48. ⟨10.1080/10256010903388238⟩. ⟨hal-00799580⟩
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