Environmental Tracers Trevor Elliot by Trevor Elliot 9783906980928, 3906980928 instant download after payment.

This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Environmental Tracers that was published in the journal Water.Environmental Tracers are ambient, natural or man-made compounds. They are widely distributed in the Earth’s near-surface and can be both added/lost/exchanged inherently (as waters flow over and through materials) and discriminated, determined analytically, and tracked sensitively.
They can also be applied (injected) deliberately at levels higher than the ambient background to characterize environmental (and indeed engineering) systems. Environmental Tracers, including their stable and radioactive isotopic signatures, when considered alongside elemental abundances, generically provide important tools for understanding the source, flow, and mixing dynamics of water resource systems through their imprint on the system or their sensitivity to alteration within it, and especially for subsurface waters (groundwaters).The Special Issue arose as an open call to the Water community, with rigorous peer-review applied to selected and published papers. Eleven papers from researchers, based in seven different countries, are included in this Special Issue. The papers reflect global research in this area. My hope then is that the collation of these papers contributes to piquing further interest and action in how Environmental Tracers can contribute and be used to address the substantive issues of vulnerability, sustainability, and uncertainty in (ground)water resources systems and their management.