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Temporal trends of deuterium excess in global precipitation and their environmental controls under a changing climate

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Sixty-three representative sites around the world were selected to analyze the long-term variability of deuterium excess (d-excess) and its association with air temperature and precipitation amount. The results from the Mann–Kendall test showed that d-excess tended to increase at two-thirds of the sites. We demonstrated from several perspectives that high temperatures and concentrated precipitation can counteract the correlation between d-excess and these two meteorological factors. Our findings suggested that d-excess was an indicator for climate change at sites controlled by a single factor; however, at sites affected by multiple factors its role was more complicated.

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    Qiyun Xiang, Guodong Liu, Yuchuan Meng, Ke Chen & Chengcheng Xia

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Xiang, Q., Liu, G., Meng, Y. et al. Temporal trends of deuterium excess in global precipitation and their environmental controls under a changing climate. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 331, 3633–3649 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-022-08414-x

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