Reading List - Isotope Hydrology

Hydrology/Hydrogology

• Hornberger, G. M. (1998), Elements of physical hydrology, viii, 302 p. pp., Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
• Fetter, C. W. (2001), Applied hydrogeology, 4th ed., xvii, 598 p. pp., Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J.
• Freeze, R. A., Cherry, J.A. (1979) Groundwater. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 604 p.
• Domenico, P.A., and Schwartz, F.W. (1990) Physical and chemical hydrogeology.  Wiley, New York, 824p.

Tracer hydrology textbooks

• Cook, P. G., and A. L. Herczeg (2000), Environmental tracers in subsurface hydrology, xiv, 529 pp., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.
• Clark, I. D., and P. Fritz (1997), Environmental isotopes in hydrogeology, 328 pp., CRC Press/Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL.
• Michener, R. H., and K. Lajtha (2007), Stable isotopes in ecology and environmental science, 2nd ed., xxvi, 566 p. pp., Blackwell Pub., Malden, MA.
  
• Käss, W., (1998), Tracing Technique in Geohydrology:: Balkema, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 581 p.
• Mazor, I. E. (1997), Chemical and isotopic groundwater hydrology : the applied approach, 2nd , rev. and expand ed., xii, 413 pp., M. Dekker, New York.
• Aggarwal, P. K., et al. (2005), Isotopes in the water cycle : past, present and future of a developing science, xv, 381 p. pp., Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
• SAHRA Isotopes & Hydrology
  

Water Resources

• Vital Water Graphics - United Nations Environment Programme
• UN-Water - Water for Life,  2005—2015
• IAHS, International Association of Hydrological Sciences
  

Dye tracers

• Flury, M., and N. N. Wai (2003), Dyes as tracers for vadose zone hydrology, Reviews of Geophysics, 41(1).
• Lu, J. H., and L. S. Wu (2003), Visualizing bromide and iodide water tracer in soil proriles by spray methods, Journal Of Environmental Quality, 32(1), 363-367.

Stable Isotopes

• GNIP booklet
• Environmental Isotopes in the Hydrological Cycle : Principles and Applications (IAEA website)
• very comprehensive on-line resource
  
• Craig, H. (1961), Isotopic Variations in Meteoric Waters, Science, 133(346), 1702
  
• Dansgaard, W. (1964) Stable isotopes in precipitation. Tellus, 16, 436-468.
• Rozanski, K., Araguas-Araguas, L., and Gonfiantini, R. (1992) Relation between long-term trends of oxygen-18 isotope  composition of Precipitation and Climate.  Science, 258, 981.
• Rozanski, K., Araguas-Araguas, L., and Gonfiantini, R. (1993) Isotopic patterns in modern global precipitation. In: Climate change in continental isotopic records (Swart, P.K., Lohmann, K.C.; McKenzie, J.A.; Savin, S., editors) AGU Monograph, 78, 1-36.
• IAEA (1981) Stable isotope hydrology. Gat, J.R. and Gonfiantini, R, editors. Technical Report Series No 210, IAEA, Vienna, 339p.

Carbon Isotopes:

• Fairbanks, R. G., Mortlock, R. A., Chiu, T. C., Cao, L., Kaplan, A., Guilderson, T. P., Fairbanks, T. W., Bloom, A. L., Grootes, P. M., and Nadeau, M. J. (2005). Radiocarbon calibration curve spanning 0 to 50,000 years BP based on paired Th-230/U-234/U-238 and C-14 dates on pristine corals. Quaternary Science Reviews 24, 1781-1796.
• Reimer, P. J., Baillie, M. G. L., Bard, E., Bayliss, A., Beck, J. W., Bertrand, C. J. H., Blackwell, P. G., Buck, C. E., Burr, G. S., Cutler, K. B., Damon, P. E., Edwards, R. L., Fairbanks, R. G., Friedrich, M., Guilderson, T. P., Hogg, A. G., Hughen, K. A., Kromer, B., McCormac, G., Manning, S., Ramsey, C. B., Reimer, R. W., Remmele, S., Southon, J. R., Stuiver, M., Talamo, S., Taylor, F. W., van der Plicht, J., and Weyhenmeyer, C. E. (2004). IntCal04 terrestrial radiocarbon age calibration, 0-26 cal kyr BP. Radiocarbon 46, 1029-1058.
  
• Fontes, J. C.; Garnier, J. M. (1979) Determination of the initial 14C activity of the total dissolved carbon; a review of the existing
• models and a new approach. Water Resour. Res., 15, 399-413.
• Mook, W.G. (1980) Carbon-14 in hydrogeological studies. In: Handbook of environmental isotope geochemistry (Fritz, P, and Fontes, J.C., editors), Vol 1, Elsevier Sci. Publ. Co., Amsterdam, 49-74.
• Plummer, L.N., E.C. Prestemon, and D.L. Parkhurst (1991) An interactive code (NETPATH) for modeling net geochemical reactions along a flow path.  USGS Water-Resources Investigations Report,} 91-4078, USGS, Reston.
<>Phillips, F.M., Tansey, M.K., and Peeters, L.A. (1989) An isotopic investigation of groundwater in the central San Juan Basin, New Mexico: Carbon 14 dating as a basis for numerical flow modeling. Water Resources Research, 25, 2259--2273.

³H/³He:

• Tolstikhin, I.N. and I.L. Kamensky (1969) Determination of groundwater ages by the T-3He method. Geochem. Int., 6, 810--811.
• Poreda, R.J., T.E. Cerling, and D.K. Solomon (1988) Tritium and helium isotopes as hydrologic tracers in a shallow unconfined aquifer. J. Hydrol., 103, 1--9.
• Schlosser, P., M. Stute, H. Doerr, C. Sonntag, and K.O. Muennich (1988) Tritium/3He dating of shallow groundwater.  Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 89, 353--362.
• Solomon, D.K., R.J. Poreda, S.L. Schiff, and J.A. Cherry (1992) Tritium and Helium 3 as groundwater-age tracers in the Borden aquifer. Water Res. Res., 28, 741-755.
• Schlosser, P., M. Stute, C. Sonntag, and K.O. Muennich (1989) Tritiogenic 3He in shallow groundwater.  Earth Planet. Sci.  Lett., 94, 245--256.
• Stute, M., J. Deak, K. Revesz, J.K. Boehlke, E. Deseo, R. Weppernig, and P. Schlosser (1997) Tritium/3He dating of river infiltration: An example from the Danube in the Szigetkoez area, Hungary.  Ground Water.
  

CFC's

• Busenberg, E., and Plummer, L.N. (1992) Use of chlorofluorocarbons (CCl3F and CCl2F2) as hydrologic tracers and age-dating tools; the alluvium and terrace system of central Oklahoma Water Resources Research, v.28, n.9, p.2257-2284.
• Dunkle, S.A., L.N. Plummer, E. Busenberg, P.J. Phillips, J.M. Denver, P.A. Hamilton, R.L. Michel, and T.B. Coplen (1993) Chlorofluorocarbons (CCl3F and CCl2F2) as dating tools and hydrologic tracers in shallow groundwater of the Delmarva Peninsula, Atlantic Coastal Plain, United States. Water Res. Res., 29, 3837--3860.
•  Ekwurzel, B., P. Schlosser, W.M. Smethie, Jr., L.N. Plummer, E. Busenberg, R.L. Michel, R. Weppernig, and M. Stute (1994) Dating of shallow groundwater: Comparison of the transient tracers 3H/3He, Chlorofluorcarbons and 85Kr.  Water Res.  Res., 30,  693--1708.
• Oster, H., Sonntag, C., Muennich, K. O. (1996) Groundwater age dating with chlorofluorocarbons. Water Res. Res., v.32, n.10, 2989-3001.

KR-85

• Zimmermann, P.H., J Feichter, HK Rath, PJ Crutzen, W (1989) A global three-dimensional source-receptor model investigation using 85 Kr.  Atmos. Environ, 1989
• Smethie, W.M., Jr., Solomon, D. K., Schiff, S.L., Mathieu, G.G. (1992) Tracing groundwater flow in the Borden Aquifer using krypton-85 Journal of Hydrology, v.130, p.279-297.

Noble gases

• Mazor, E. (1972) Paleotemperatures and other hydrological parameters deduced from noble gases dissolved in groundwaters, Jordan Rift Valley, Israel.  Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 36, 1321--1336.
• Stute, M. and P. Schlosser (1993) Principles and Applications of the Noble Gas Paleothermometer.  AGU Monograph on `Climate Change in Continental Isotopic Records'},  Geophysical Monograph}, 78, 89--100.
• Stute, M., P. Schlosser, J.F. Clark, and W.S. Broecker (1992a) Paleotemperatures in the southwestern United States derived from noble gas measurements in groundwater.   Science}, 256, 1000--1003.
• Stute, M., J.F. Clark, P. Schlosser, W.S. Broecker, and G. Bonani (1995a) A high altitude continental paleotemperature record derived from noble gases dissolved in groundwater from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico.   Quat. Res.}, 43, 209--220.
• Stute, M., M. Forster, H. Frischkorn, A. Serejo, J.F. Clark, P. Schlosser, W.S. Broecker, and G. Bonani (1995b) Cooling of tropical Brazil (5\Celsius) during the last glacial maximum.  Science}, 269, 379--383.

He

• Torgersen, T., 1980. Controls on porefluid concentration of ⁴He and ²²²Rn and the calculation of ⁴He/²²²Rn ages. J. Geochem. Explor. 13, pp. 57–75.
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Kr-81

• Lehmann, B. E., Oeschger, H., Loosli, H. H., Hurst, G. S., Allman, S. L., Chen, C. H., Kramer, S. D., Payne, M. G., Phillips, R. C., Willis, R. D., Thonnard, N. (1985) Counting 81 Kr atoms for analysis of groundwater Journal of Geophysical Research. B, v.90, n.13, p.11,547--11,551.

Cl-36

• Fabryka-Martin, J., Davis, S. N., and Elmore, D (1987) Applications of 129I and 36Cl in hydrology. In: Accelerator mass spectrometry; proceedings of the Fourth international symposium (Gove, H. E. Litherland, A. E.; Elmore, D., editors) Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research, Section B:  Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, v.B29, n.1-2, p.361-371.
• Bentley, H.W., Phillips, F.M., and DAVIS, S.N. (1986)  Chlorine-36 in the terrestrial environment, In: Handbook of Environmental Isotope Geochemistry (Fritz, P. and Fontes, J.C., editors), The Terrestrial Environment, B,  427--480.
• Torgersen, T.; Habermehl, M. A.; Phillips, F. M.; Elmore, David; Kubik, Peter; Jones, B. Geoffrey; Hemmick, T.; Gove, H. E. (1991) Chlorine 36 dating of very old groundwater; 3, Further studies in the Great Artesian Basin, Australia. Water Resources Research, v.27, n.12, 3201-3213.

SF₆

• Clark, J.F., P. Schlosser, M. Stute, and H.J. Simpson (1996) (1996) SF6-He-3 tracer release experiment: A new method of determining longitudinal dispersion coefficients in large rivers. Environ. Sci. Technol. 30: 1527-1532.
• Clark, J. F., P. Schlosser, M. Stute & H. J. Simpson, (1997) SF6-He-3 tracer release experiment: A new method of determining longitudinal dispersion coefficients in large rivers (vol 30, pg 1527, 1996). Environ. Sci. Technol. 31: 308-308.
• Caplow, T., P. Schlosser & D. T. Ho, (2004) Tracer study of mixing and transport in the upper Hudson River with multiple dams. J. Environ. Eng.-ASCE 130: 1498-1506.
  
• Ho DT, Schlosser P, Houghton RW, et al. (2006) Comparison of SF6 and fluorescein as tracers for measuring transport processes in a large tidal river. J. Env. Eng-ASCE, 132, 12, 1884-1669
• Ho, D. T., P. Schlosser, R. W. Houghton & T. Caplow, (2006) Comparison of SF6 and fluorescein as tracers for measuring transport processes in a large tidal river. J. Environ. Eng.-ASCE 132: 1664-1669.
  
  

He-4

• Torgersen, T. and G.N. Ivey, Helium accumulation in groundwater, II:  mechanisms for the accumulation of the crustal 4He degassing flux, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 49, 2445-2452, 1985.
• Torgersen, T., B.M. Kennedy, H. Hiyagon, K.Y.Chiou, J.H. Reynolds, and W.B. Clarke. 1989.  Argon accumulation and the crustal degassing flux of 40Ar in the Great Artesian Basin, Australia.  Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.  92: 43-56.
• Stute, M., C. Sonntag, J. Deak, and P. Schlosser (1992) Helium in deep circulating groundwater in the Great Hungarian Plain: Flow dynamics and crustal and mantle He fluxes.   Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 56, 2051--2067

Modeling

• Neupauer, R. M., and R. H. Lin. 2006. Identifying sources of a conservative groundwater contaminant using backward probabilities conditioned on measured concentrations. Water Resources Research 42.
• Neupauer, R. M., and J. L. Wilson. 2004. Numerical implementation of a backward probabilistic model of ground water contamination. Ground Water 42:175-189.
  

SEDIMENTS

• Bopp, R.F., Simpson, H.J., Chillrud, S.N., and Robinson, D. W. (1993) Sediment-derived chronologies of persistent contaminants in Jamaica Bay, New York. Estuaries, v.16, n.3B, 608-616.
• Anderson et al., Pb-210