ABSTRACT H218O and HDO are important climatic tracers largely used to reconstruct continental palaeoclimates. The only thorough way to compare isotopic distributions in precipitation for

modern and palaeoconditions is to simulate isotope cycles using atmospheric general circulation models. H218O and HDO cycles incorporated into our atmospheric general circulation model show

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