Monthly amount-weighted stable isotope composition of precipitation from 41 IWIN stations across India, 2005-2016

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This dataset provides monthly amount-weighted precipitation isotope observations from 41 stations across India, collected under the aegis of the National Programme on Isotope Fingerprinting of Waters of India (IWIN), a multi-institutional precipitation isotope monitoring network. It contains 1,034 station-month records from station-specific observation periods falling between June 2005 and September 2016. Each record includes station identifier, station name, WGS84 latitude and longitude, elevation, Köppen-Geiger climate class, monthly rainfall amount, δ18O, δ2H, and d-excess. Rainwater was collected using the IWIN rainwater sampling protocol designed to minimise evaporation. The sampler used a funnel connected to an airtight carboy, with a floating ball to reduce evaporation when rainfall was absent, a wire mesh to exclude coarse debris, a long air-outlet tube to limit air exchange, and a cloth cover to protect collected water from direct sunlight. Two sampling protocols were employed across the network: fortnightly accumulated samples (29 stations), collected on the 1st and 16th of each month, and daily accumulated samples (12 stations), collected each morning following a rainfall event the previous day. Collected water was mixed, measured, transferred to plastic bottles filled nearly to the brim, sealed with inner stubs and pilferage-proof caps, and preserved without chemical additives. Oxygen and hydrogen isotope ratios were measured at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, by continuous-flow IRMS using a Thermo Scientific Delta V Plus with GasBench II. Analytical precision was ±0.1‰ for δ18O and ±1.0‰ for δ2H. d-excess is calculated as δ2H - 8 × δ18O.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995469
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Creator Oza, Harsh ORCID logo; Padhya, Virendra; Ganguly, Akash; Pandey, Amit; Chakra, Swagatika; Deshpande, R D
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Government of India https://ror.org/036h6g940 ROR IR/S4/ESF-05/2004 National Programme on Isotope Fingerprinting of Waters of India
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess false
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 7238 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (69.670W, 8.500S, 94.910E, 34.080N); Ahmedabad, India; Akola, India; Anand, India; Aurangabad, India; Bangalore, India; Bhopal, India; Bhubaneswar, India; Bhuj, India; Bikaner, India; Chennai, India; Dapoli, India; Delhi, India; Dibrugarh, India; Faizabad, India; Goa, India; Hisar, India; Hyderabad, India; Jabalpur, India; Jammu, India; Jodhpur, India; Jorhat, India; Kangra, India; Kanpur, India; Kolkata, India; Kovilpatti, India; Lucknow, India; Ludhiana, India; Mangalore, India; Mumbai, India; Nadia, India; Parbhani, India; Patiala, India; Raipur, India; Ranchi, India; Ranichauri, India; Solapur, India; Srinagar, India; Thiruvananthapuram, India; Thrissur, India; Udaipur, India; Visakhapatnam, India
Temporal Coverage Begin 2005-06-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-09-01T00:00:00Z