Measuring and Modeling Stable Isotopes of Mobile and Bulk Soil Water

We thank Audrey Innes for support with the isotope analysis at University of Aberdeen for the Bruntland Burn and Krycklan sites, Johannes Tiwari (SLU) for the isotope sampling in Krycklan, Pernilla Lofvenius (SLU) for providing PET data for Krycklan, Pertti Ala-aho for providing snowmelt simulations for Krycklan, and Kimberely Janzen (University of Saskatoon) for soil water isotope analysis for the Dorset sites. The work at Krycklan was supported by KAW Branch-Points. We thank the European Research Council (ERC, project GA 335910 VeWa) for funding. We thank two anonymous reviewers and the associate editor for their suggestions and comments.

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