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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.

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Install

install.packages('isoWater')

Monthly Downloads

247

Version

1.2.1

License

GPL-3

Maintainer

Gabe Bowen

Last Published

July 1st, 2025

Functions in isoWater (1.2.1)

GMWL

Global Meteoric Water Line
iso

Iso Object
mwlSource

Water Source Using Meteoric Water Line
wiDB_sites

Obtain information on wiDB sites using a query
mixSource

Water Source as a Mixture
isoWater

Discovery, Retrieval, and Analysis of Water Isotope Data
mwl

Mwl Object
wiDB_data

Obtain data from wiDB using a query
wiDB_values

Obtain value lists for categorical fields in wiDB
dex

Deuterium excess