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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in cooperation with World Meteorological Organization (WMO) initiated in 1960 a world-wide survey of the isotope composition of monthly precipitation. The paper reviews the global distribution patterns of tritium and stable isotopes in precipitation and their relation to meteorological and climatic variables.
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Araguas, L.A., Danesi, P., Froehlich, K. et al. Global monitoring of the isotopic composition of precipitation. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles 205, 189–200 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02039404
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