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Tritium and stable isotope content variation in precipitation at Hongseung: West Korea Region

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Tritium and stable isotopes contents in precipitation were analyzed on a monthly base at Hongseung which was located middle west of Korea peninsular. The precipitation of this place was influenced by China continent and Yellow Sea marine air mass environment with seasonal variation. Precipitation was sampled from March 2018 to August 2020. The 3H concentration was high at spring and low at summer and ranged from 1.54 to 10.76 TU. The stable isotopes concentration such as δ18O ranged from − 13.24 to − 2.64‰ and δD ranged from − 95.23 to − 11.72‰ with seasonal variation.

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This work was supported by the Basic Research Project (20-3411) of the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), funded by the Ministry of Science and Information and Communications Technology.

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Yoon, Y.Y., Koh, D.C. Tritium and stable isotope content variation in precipitation at Hongseung: West Korea Region. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 330, 413–417 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-021-07955-x

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