Articles | Volume 17, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-409-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-409-2013
Research article
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31 Jan 2013
Research article |  | 31 Jan 2013

Impact of elevation and weather patterns on the isotopic composition of precipitation in a tropical montane rainforest

D. Windhorst, T. Waltz, E. Timbe, H.-G. Frede, and L. Breuer

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