Articles | Volume 23, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-5059-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-5059-2019
Technical note
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16 Dec 2019
Technical note |  | 16 Dec 2019

Technical note: Uncertainty in multi-source partitioning using large tracer data sets

Alicia Correa, Diego Ochoa-Tocachi, and Christian Birkel

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The applications and availability of large tracer data sets have vastly increased in recent years leading to research into the contributions of multiple sources to a mixture. We introduce a method based on Taylor series approximation to estimate the uncertainties of such sources' contributions. The method is illustrated with examples of hydrology (14 tracers) and a MATLAB code is provided for reproducibility. This method can be generalized to any number of tracers across a range of disciplines.