Discovery, Retrieval, and Analysis of Water Isotope Data

The wiDB...() functions provide an interface to the public API of the wiDB < https://github.com/SPATIAL-Lab/isoWater/blob/master/Protocol.md>: build, check and submit queries, and receive and unpack responses. Data analysis functions support Bayesian inference of the source and source isotope composition of water samples that may have experienced evaporation. Algorithms adapted from Bowen et al. (2018, ).

isoWater

An R package for obtaining and analyzing water isotope data. Includes interfaces to the Waterisotopes Database and tools for inferring the source of waters based on their isotopic composition accounting for isotope effects associated with partial evaporation. Install the latest release from GitHub using the devtools package:

library(devtools)
install_GitHub("SPATIAL-Lab/isoWater@*release")
library(isoWater)

References:

Bowen, G. J., Putman, A. L., Brooks, J. R., Bowling, D. R., Oerter, E. J., & Good, S. P. (2018) Inferring the source of evaporated waters using stable H and O isotopes. Oecologia, 187(4), 1025-1039.

Putman, A. L., & Bowen, G. J. (2019) A global database of the stable isotopic ratios of meteoric and terrestrial waters. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 23(10), 4389-4396.