Isotope study quantifies Amazonian moisture recycling

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Salati and colleagues publish an isotopic analysis of Amazonian rainfall showing that the deuterium and oxygen-18 signature does not follow the trajectory expected of purely ocean-derived vapour moving inland, and infer that a large fraction of the basin's rainfall is water recycled by the forest itself. It converts a plausible mechanism into a measured quantity.

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Recycling of water in the Amazon Basin: an isotopic study

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