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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5821-2020
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Technical note
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08 Dec 2020
Technical note |
| 08 Dec 2020
| 08 Dec 2020
Technical note: Evaluation of a low-cost evaporation protection method for portable water samplers
Jana von Freyberg
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETHZ, 8092 Zurich,
Switzerland
Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL,
1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Julia L. A. Knapp
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETHZ, 8092 Zurich,
Switzerland
Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
Andrea Rücker
Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETHZ, 8092 Zurich,
Switzerland
Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Bjørn Studer
Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETHZ, 8092 Zurich,
Switzerland
James W. Kirchner
Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETHZ, 8092 Zurich,
Switzerland
Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Quantification of enrichment processes in throughfall and stemflow in a mixed temperate forest M. Grundmann et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15224
- Examining the variability of rock glacier meltwater in space and time in high-elevation environments of Utah, United States J. Munroe & A. Handwerger https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1129314
- Four years of daily stable water isotope data in stream water and precipitation from three Swiss catchments J. von Freyberg et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01148-1
- Isotopic offsets in throughfall and stemflow may have small effects on estimates of winter precipitation fractions M. Floriancic & J. Kirchner https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15095
- Rosalia: an experimental research site to study hydrological processes in a forest catchment J. Fürst et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4019-2021
- Multi-year time series of daily solute and isotope measurements from three Swiss pre-Alpine catchments J. Knapp et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03192-5
- Young and new water fractions in soil and hillslope waters M. Floriancic et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4295-2024
- Contribution of rock glacier discharge to late summer and fall streamflow in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA J. Munroe & A. Handwerger https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-543-2023
- Hydrodynamics of a high Alpine catchment characterized by four natural tracers A. Michelon et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-1403-2023
- Diurnal Impact of Below-Cloud Evaporation on Isotope Compositions of Precipitation on the Southern Slope of the Altai Mountains, Central Asia S. Wang et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610013
- Moisture origins affecting sub-daily precipitation δ18O and d-excess values mapped in Western Europe G. Türk et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-2859-2026
- Isotopic evidence for seasonal water sources in tree xylem and forest soils M. Floriancic et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2641
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Short summary
Automated water samplers are often used to collect precipitation and streamwater samples for subsequent isotope analysis, but the isotopic signal of these samples may be altered due to evaporative fractionation occurring during the storage inside the autosamplers in the field. In this article we present and evaluate a cost-efficient modification to the Teledyne ISCO automated water sampler that prevents isotopic enrichment through evaporative fractionation of the water samples.
Automated water samplers are often used to collect precipitation and streamwater samples for...
