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Book Chapters

 

  • ​Sánchez-Murillo, R; and Ramírez, A. (in press). Isotopic composition of hydrothermal fluids. In Hydrothermal and Mineral Waters of Costa Rica. Editor: Guillermo Alvardo-Induni). University of Costa Rica Editorial, San José, Costa Rica. Pp 595.

  • Sánchez-Murillo, R; Aguirre-Dueñas, E; Gallardo-Améstica, M; Moya-Vega, P; Birkel, C; Esquivel-Hernández, G and Boll, J. 2018. Isotopic Characterization of Waters Across Chile. In Andean Hydrology (Rivera, D, Godoy-Faúndez, A and Lillo-Saavedra, M, Eds). CRC Press, Boca Ratón, FL, USA. pp 205-230.

  • Birkel, C., Brenes, A., and Sánchez-Murillo, R. 2017. The Tempisque-Bebedero catchment system: energy-water-food consensus in the seasonally dry tropics of northwestern Costa Rica. In Nexus Outlook “Assessing current and future challenges in the Water, Energy, and Food Security. Eds: Al-Saidi, Mohammad and Lars Ribbe. Nexus Research Focus, TH Köln- University of Applied Sciences.

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2025

  • Matthias, B., Iraheta, A., Gerchow, M., Kühnhammer, K., Callau-Beyer, A. C., Koeniger, P., ... & Birkel, C. (In Press). UAV-based land surface temperatures and vegetation indices explain and predict spatial patterns of soil water isotopes in a tropical dry forest. Authorea Preprints. Water Resources Research.

  • Birkel, C., Miller, J., Watson, A., Trinh, D. A., Durán-Quesada, A. M., Sánchez-Murillo, R., ... & Yoshimura, K. (2025). Demystifying the art of isotope-enabled hydrological and climate modelling. Science of the Total Environment, 959, 178242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.178242

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2024​

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  • Sánchez-Murillo, R., Herrera, D.A, Farrick, K.K., Esquivel-Hernández, G., Sánchez-Gutiérrez, R., et al. 2024. Stable isotope tempestology of tropical cyclones across the North Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Ocean basins. Ann NY Acad Sci., 1543, 145–165. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15274

  • Sánchez-Murillo Ricardo, Ortega Lucía, Vreča Polona, Žagar Klara, Shrestha Suprina, Kgotlaebonywe Charity, et al. Tracing urban drinking water sources: global state of the art and insights from an IAEA-Coordinated Research Project. Hydrological Processes. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15312

  • Esquivel-Hernández, G., Montealegre-Viales, E., Sánchez-Gutiérrez, R., Villalobos-Forbes, M., Pérez-Salazar, R., Sánchez-Murillo, R., et al. (2024). Tracing groundwater-surface water interactions in a volcanic maar lake using stable isotopes and 222Rn. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 129, e2024JG008216. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008216

  • dos Santos, V., Gastmans, D., Durán-Quesada, A. M., Sánchez-Murillo, R., Rozanski, K., Kracht, O., and de Assis Quintão, D.: Isotopic composition of convective rainfall in the inland tropics of Brazil, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 6663–6680, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-6663-2024, 2024.

  • Santos, V., Durán-Quesada, A. M., Sánchez-Murillo, R., & Gastmans, D. (2024). High-frequency isotope compositions reveal different cloud-top and vertical stratiform rainfall structures in the inland tropics of Brazil. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL109886. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109886

  • Quichimbo-Miguitama, F., Pesántez, J., Crespo, P., Sánchez-Murillo, R., Lim, H., Munksgaard, N., ... & Birkel, C. (2024). Key controls on water transit times along a tropical precipitation gradient. Journal of Hydrology, 645, 132134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.132134

  • Basili M, Rogers TJ, Nakagawa M, Yücel M, de Moor JM, Barry PH, et al. (2024) Subsurface microbial community structure shifts along the geological features of the Central American Volcanic Arc. PLoS ONE 19(11): e0308756. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308756

  • Watson, A., Kralisch, S., Miller, J., Vystavna, Y., Gokool, S., Künne, A., Helmschrot, J., Arciniega-Esparza, S., Sanchez-Murillo, R., & Birkel, C. (2024). Advancing isotope-enabled hydrological modelling for ungauged calibration of data-scarce humid tropical catchments. Hydrological Processes, 38(2), e15065. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15065

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2023

 

  • Sánchez-Murillo, R., Birkel, C., Boll, J., Esquivel-Hernández, G., Rojas-Jiménez, L. D., Castro-Chacón, L., Durán-Quesada, A. M., Voarintsoa, N. R. G., Dee, S. G., & Winguth, A. M. E. (2023). ENSO sentinels in the Americas' humid tropics: We need combined hydrometric and isotopic monitoring for improved El Niño and La Niña impact prediction. Hydrological Processes, 37(12), e15027. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15027

  • Sanchez-Murillo, R., González-Hita, L., Mejía-González, M. A., Carteño-Martinez, B., Aparicio-González, J. C., Mañón-Flores, D., Ortega, L., Stojanovic, M., Nieto, R., & Gimeno, L. (2023). Tracing isotope precipitation patterns across Mexico. PLOS Water. Published. https://doi.org/https://journals.plos.org/water/article?id=10.1371/journal.pwat.0000136

  • Juan Pérez Quezadas, Yesica Guadalupe Cabrera Sillas, Rogelio Monreal, Miguel Rangel Medina, José Iván Morales Arredondo & Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo (2023). Hydrochemistry and stable isotopes revealed focused and diffuse recharge processes in the Sonora River basin, Mexico, Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 59:1, 48-65, DOI: 10.1080/10256016.2023.2171032

  • De la Llata Quiroga, E., Arauz, R., Tripp Valdez, A., Porras Murillo, L., Parallada, M. S., Sánchez-Murillo, R., & Chávez, E. J. (2023). Trophic ecology of juvenile bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) in the Coyote estuary, Costa Rica. Journal of Fish Biology, 102( 3), 669– 679. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15313

  • Germain Esquivel-Hernández, Ioannis Matiatos, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, Yuliya Vystavna, Raffaella Balestrini, Naomi S. Wells, Lucilena R. Monteiro, Somporn Chantara, Wendell Walters & Leonard I. Wassenaar (2023) Nitrate isotopes (δ15N, δ18O) in precipitation: best practices from an international coordinated research project, Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 59:2, 127-141, DOI: 10.1080/10256016.2023.2177649

  • Sánchez-Murillo, R., Todini-Zicavo, D., Poca, M., Birkel, C., Esquivel-Hernández, G., Chavarría, M. M., Zuecco, G., & Penna, D. (2023). Dry season plant water sourcing in contrasting tropical ecosystems of Costa Rica. Ecohydrology, 16( 5), e2541. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2541

  • Arciniega-Esparza, S., Birkel, C., Durán-Quesada, A. M., Sánchez-Murillo, R., Moore, G. W., Maneta, M. P., Boll, J., Negri, L. B., Tetzlaff, D., Yoshimura, K., & Soulsby, C. (2023). Tracer-aided ecohydrological modelling across climate, land cover, and topographical gradients in the tropics. Hydrological Processes, 37( 5), e14884. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14884

  • Germain Esquivel-Hernández, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, Diego Villalobos-Córdoba, Lucilena Rebelo Monteiro, Mario Villalobos-Forbes, Rolando Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Marycel E.B. Cotrim, Ioannis Matiatos. (2023). Exploring the acid neutralizing effect in rainwater collected at a tropical urban area: Central Valley, Costa Rica. Atmospheric Pollution Research. 14 (9): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2023.101845.

  • Sánchez-Gutiérrez, R., Sánchez-Murillo, R., Esquivel-Hernández, G., Birkel, C., Boll, J., Rojas-Jiménez, L. D., & Castro-Chacón, L. (2023). Nitrate legacy in a tropical and complex fractured volcanic aquifer system. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128, e2023JG007554. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007554

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2022

 

  • Fischer, B.M.C., Morillas, L., Rojas Conejo, J., Sánchez-Murillo, R., Suárez Serrano, A., Frentress, J., Cheng, C.-H., Garcia, M., Manzoni, S., Johnson, M.S. and Lyon, S.W. (2022), Investigating the impacts of biochar on water fluxes in a rice experiment in the Dry Corridor of Central America, Costa Rica. Hydrological Processes. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14765

  • Germain Esquivel-Hernández, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, Enzo Vargas-Salazar, Adolfo Quesada-Román, Water stable isotopes reveal the hydrological response of Costa Rican glacial lakes to climate variability, Journal of South American Earth Sciences,120, 104091, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2022.104091

  • S. García-Santos, R. Sánchez-Murillo, T. Peña-Paz, M.J. Chirinos-Escobar, J.O. Hernández-Ortiz, E.J. Mejía-Escobar, L. Ortega. 2022. Water stable isotopes reveal a complex rainfall to groundwater connectivity in central Honduras. Science of The Total Environment, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156941

  • Zhiña, D., Mosquera, G., Cordova, M., Orellana-Alvear, J., Esquivel, G., Sanchez-Murillo, R., & Crespo, P. (2022). Hydrometeorological factors controlling the stable isotopic composition of precipitation in the highlands of south Ecuador. Journal of Hydrometeorology. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-21-0180.1

  • Lyon, S., Fischer, B., Morillas, L., Rojas Conejo, J., Sánchez‐Murillo, R., Suárez Serrano, A., Frentress, J., Cheng, C., Garcia, M., & Johnson, M. 2022. On the potential of biochar soil amendments as a sustainable water management strategy. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127026

  • Dos Santos, V., Marshall Fleming, P., Mancini, L., Santos Cota, S., de Lima, G., Rodrigues Gomes, R., Kirchheim, R., Sanchez-Murillo, R., & Gastmans, D. (2022). Distinguishing the Regional Atmospheric Controls on Precipitation Isotopic Variability in the Central-Southeast Portion of Brazil. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. http://www.iapjournals.ac.cn/aas/en/article/doi/10.1007/s00376-022-1367-0

  • Sánchez-Murillo, R., Montero-Rodríguez, I., Corrales-Salazar, J., Esquivel-Hernández, G., Castro-Chacón, L., Rojas-Jiménez, L. D., Vargas-Víquez, J., Pérez-Quezadas, J., Gazel, E., & Boll, J. (2022). Deciphering complex groundwater age distributions and recharge processes in a tropical and fractured volcanic multi-aquifer system. Hydrological Processes, 36(3), e14521. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14521

  • Mayer-Anhalt, L., Birkel, C., Sánchez-Murillo, R., & Schulz, S. (2022). Tracer-aided modelling reveals quick runoff generation and young streamflow ages in a tropical rainforest catchment. Hydrological Processes, 36( 2), e14508. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14508

  • Sánchez-Murillo, R., Gastezzi-Arias, P., Sánchez-Gutiérrez, R., Pérez-Salazar, R., Esquivel-Hernández, G., Poca, M. 2022. Dissolved organic carbon dynamics in a high elevation tropical peatland ecosystem: Cerro de la Muerte, Costa Rica. Front. Water, Sec. Water and Built Environment. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2021.742780

 

2021

 

  • Lucas Vituri Santarosa, Didier Gastmans, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, Vinicius dos Santos, Ludmila Vianna Batista & Sebastian Balbin Betancur. 2021. Stable isotopes reveal groundwater to river connectivity in a mesoscale subtropical watershed. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies.  https://doi.org/10.1080/10256016.2021.1877701

  • Esquivel‐Hernández, G., Sánchez‐Murillo, R. and Vargas‐Salazar, E. (2021), Chirripó Hydrological Research Site: advancing stable isotope hydrology in the Central American Páramo. Hydrological Processes. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14181

  • Birkel, C, Correa Barahona, A, Duvert, C, et al. End member and Bayesian mixing models consistently indicate near‐surface flowpath dominance in a pristine humid tropical rainforest. Hydrological Processes. 2021; 35:e14153. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14153

  • Iraheta, A, Birkel, C, Benegas, L, Rios, N, Sánchez‐Murillo, R, Beyer, M. A preliminary isotope‐based evapotranspiration partitioning approach for tropical Costa Rica. Ecohydrology. 2021;e2297.  https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2297

  • Mario Villalobos-Forbes, Germain Esquivel-Hernández, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, Rolando Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Ioannis Matiatos. 2021. Stable isotopic characterization of nitrate wet deposition in the tropical urban atmosphere of Costa Rica. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-15327-x

  • Sánchez-Murillo, R., Esquivel-Hernández, G., Birkel, C., and Ortega, L. Isotopic composition and major ion concentrations of national and international bottled waters in Costa Rica. Data in Brief. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.107277

  • Luis Gimeno, Raquel Nieto, Jorge Eiras-Barca, Ana María Durán-Quesada, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, Francina Domínguez, Ruud Van der Ent and Harald Sodemann. 2021. The residence time of water vapour in the atmosphere. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00181-9

  • Germain Esquivel‐Hernández; Ricardo Sánchez‐Murillo, Enzo Vargas‐Salazar. 2021. Chirripó Hydrological Research Site: advancing stable isotope hydrology in the Central American Páramo. Hydrological Processes. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14181

 

2020

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  • Sánchez‐Murillo, R, Esquivel‐Hernández, G, Corrales‐Salazar, JL, et al. 2020. Tracer hydrology of the data‐scarce and heterogeneous Central American Isthmus. Hydrological Processes. 34: 2660– 2675. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13758 

  • Arellano, N., Stephen Good, Ricardo Sanchez-Murillo, Todd Jarvis, David Noone, Catherine Finkenbiner. 2020. Bayesian estimates of the mean recharge elevations of water sources in the Central America region using stable water isotopes. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2020.100739  

  • Birkel, C, Correa-Barahona, A, Martinez-Martinez, M, et al. Headwaters drive streamflow and lowland tracer export in a large-scale humid tropical catchment. Hydrological Processes. 2020; 34: 3824– 3841. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13841  

  • Welsh, K. and Sánchez-Murillo, R. 2020. Rainfall, groundwater, and surface water isotope data from extreme tropical cyclones (2016-2019) within the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean basins. , 105633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105633

  • Sánchez‐Murillo, R, Esquivel-Hernández, G, Birkel, C, Ortega, L, Sánchez-Guerrero, M, Rojas-Jiménez, L. D, Vargas-Víquez, J., Castro-Chacón, L. 2020. From mountains to cities: isotope hydrological assessment of a drinking water aqueduct in tropical Costa Rica. Isotopes in Env. And Health Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/10256016.2020.1809390

  • Carballo-Chaves, K., Villalobos-Forbes, M., Esquivel-Hernández, G., Sánchez-Murillo, R. 2020. Isotope composition of carbon dioxide and methane in a tropical urban atmosphere. Isotopes in Env. And Health Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/10256016.2020.1803855

  • Zabala, M.E., M. Gorocito, S. Dietrich, M. Varni, R. Sánchez-Murillo, M. Manzano, E. Ceballos. 2020. Key hydrological processes in the large sub-humid Pampean Plain (Argentina). Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142258

  • Sánchez-Murillo, R., Esquivel-Hernández, G., Sánchez-Gutiérrez, R., Welsh, K., Birkel, C., Correa, A., Poca, M. 2020. Tracing water sources in a dynamic tropical environment: from observations to modeling. Submitted to Frontiers in Earth Sciences: Hydrosphere. Review. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2020.571477/abstract

  • Juan Pérez Quezadas, David Adams, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, Alejandro Jiménez Lagunes, José Luis Rodríguez Castañeda. 2020. Isotopic variability (δ18O and δ2H) recorded during rainfall events of the North American Monsoon across the Sonora River Basin, Mexico. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102928

  • Correa Alicia, Birkel Christian, Gutiérrez Jason, Dehaspe Joni, Durán-Quesada Ana, Soulsby Chris, Sánchez-Murillo, R. Modeling non‐stationary water ages in a tropical rainforest: a preliminary spatially‐distributed assessment. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13925   

  • María Emilia Zabala, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo; Sebastián Dietrich; Martín Gorocito; Luis Vives; Marisol Manzano; Marcelo Varni. 2020. Hydrological dataset of a sub-humid continental plain basin (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Data in Brief. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.106400  

  • Soto, D., Sánchez-Murillo, R., Ortega., L., Quiróz-Londoño, M., Martins, V. 2020. Environmental isotope applications in Latin America and the Caribbean region, Preface. Isotopes in Env. And Health Studies. 56:5-6, 387-390, DOI: 10.1080/10256016.2020.1839448

  • R. Sánchez-Gutiérrez, L. Mena- Rivera, R. Sánchez-Murillo, A. Fonseca-Sánchez, H. Madrigal-Solís. 2020. Groundwater processes and water quality in a human-altered landscape in the Central Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Journal of Geochemistry and Health.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10653-019-00501-5

  • Vituri Santarosa, L., Gastmans, D., Sánchez-Murillo, R., dos Santos, V., Vianna Batista, L., Balbin Betancur, S. Stable isotopes reveal groundwater to river connectivity in a mesoscale subtropical watershed. Accepted in Isotopes in Env. And Health Studies. DOI: 10.1080/10256016.2021.1877701

 

2019

 

  • Niels Munskgaard, Kurita, N., Sánchez-Murillo, R., et al. 2019. Tropical daily observations of stable isotope compositions in rainfall and calculated stratiform rainfall fractions. Nature Scientific Data. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50973-9  

  • Vinícius dos Santos, Didier Gastmans, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, Luiz Felippe Gozzo, Jorge Martinez. 2019. Regional atmospheric dynamics govern interannual and seasonal stable isotope composition in southeastern Brazil. Journal of Hydrology.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124136   

  • Sánchez-Murillo, R., Ana M. Durán-Quesada, Germain Esquivel-Hernández, Daniela Rojas-Cantillano, Christian Birkel, Nguyen Kien Chinh, Doerthe Tetzlaff, Chris Soulsby, and Jan Boll. 2019. Hurricane isotope anatomy in a climate change sensitive region: implications for tropical paleoclimatic re-constructions. Nature Communications.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12062-3

  • Sebastián Granados; Vanessa Solano; Josie Geris; Liz Brenes; Guillermo Artavia; Guillermo Brenes; Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo; Christian Birkel. 2019.  Exploring extreme rainfall impacts on flow and turbidity dynamics in a steep, pristine and tropical volcanic catchment. CATENA. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2019.104118

  • Sánchez‐Murillo, R., Romero‐Esquivel, L. G., Jiménez‐Antillón, J., Salas‐Navarro, J., Corrales‐Salazar, L., Álvarez‐Carvajal, J., et al. (2019). DOC transport and export in a dynamic tropical catchment. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004897   

  • Germain Esquivel-Hernández, Giovanny M. Mosquera, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, Christian Birkel, Patricio Crespo, Rolando Célleri, David Windhorst, Lutz Breuer, Jan Boll. 2019. Moisture transport and seasonal variations in the stable isotopic composition of rainfall in Central American and Andean Páramos. Hydrological Processes. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hyp.13438

  • Polleth Campos-Arias, Germain Esquivel-Hernández, Jose Francisco
    Valverde-Calderón, Stephanie Rodríguez-Rosales, Jorge Moya-Zamora, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, Jan Boll. 2019. GPS precipitable water vapor estimations over Costa Rica: a comparison against atmospheric sounding and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS). Climate. https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/7/5/63

 

2018

 

  • Vinícius dos Santos, Marcelo Dias de Oliveira, Jan Boll, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, Luiz Fellipe Gozzo, Didier Gastmans. 2018. Isotopic composition of precipitation during strong ENSO events in the Southeastern region of Brazil. Hydrological Processes. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13351

  • Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo and Ana M. Durán-Quesada. 2018. Stable isotopes in hydrological studies in the tropics: precipitation, groundwater and ecohydrological perspectives in a changing climate. Hydrological Processes. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.13305

  • Salas-Navarro, J., Sánchez-Murillo, Ricardo; Esquivel-Hernández, Germain; and Corrales-Salazar, L. 2018. Hydrogeochemical responses in tropical mountainous springs. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/10256016.2018.1546701

  • Esquivel-Hernández, Germain; Sánchez-Murillo, Ricardo; Quesada-Román, Adolfo; Mosquera, Giovanny; Birkel, Christian; Boll, Jan. 2018. Insight into the stable isotopic composition of glacial lakes in a tropical alpine ecosystem: Chirripó, Costa Rica. Hydrological Processes. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13286

  • Christian Birkel, Rachel Helliwell, Barry Thornton, Sheila Gibbs, Pat Cooper, Chris Soulsby, Doerthe Tetzlaff, Luigi Spezia, Germain Esquivel-Hernández, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, Andy Midwood. 2018. Characterization of surface water isoscapes in a heterogeneous environment: The case of Scotland. Geochemical Exploration. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2018.07.011

  • Dehaspe, Joni, Birkel, Christian; Tetzlaff, Doerthe; Sanchez-Murillo, Ricardo; Durán-Quesada, Ana; Soulsby, Chris. 2018. Preliminary tracer-aided modelling elucidates water and isotope transport, storage and mixing in a sparsely monitored pristine, humid tropical catchment. Hydrological Processes. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13258

  • Welsh, K., Sánchez-Murillo, R., Roupsard, O., and J. Boll. 2018. Seasonal isotope hydrology of a tropical coffee agroforestry watershed: Separating groundwater, springs, and stream flow. Hydrological Processes. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13149

  • Didier Gastmans, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, Ludmila Vianna Batista, Chang, Hung Kiang. 2018. Chemical and isotopic dynamics on surface waters during a prolonged ENSO-related baseflow period in southeastern Brazil. Hydrological Processes. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13211

 

2017

 

  • Esquivel-Hernández, G., Sánchez-Murillo, R., Birkel, C., and J. Boll. 2017. Climate and water conflicts co-evolution from a tropical development and hydro-climatic perspectives: a case study of Costa Rica. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12617

  • Ramírez-Leiva A, Sánchez-Murillo R, Martínez-Cruz M, Calderón H, Esquivel-Hernández G, Delgado V, Birkel, C, Gazel, E, Alvarado-Induni, G, Soulsby, C. 2017. Stable isotopes evidence for recycled subduction fluids in the hydrothermal/volcanic activity across Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Vulcanology and Geothermal Research, 345: 172–183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.08.013

  • Esquivel-Hernández, G., Sánchez-Murillo, R., Birkel, C., Good, S., and J. Boll. 2017. Hydro-climatic and ecohydrological resistance/resilience conditions across tropical biomes of Costa Rica. Ecohydrology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eco.1860

  • Melitza Crespo-Medina, Katrina I. Twing, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, William J. Brazelton, Thomas M. McCollom, Matthew O. Schrenk. 2017. Microbially mediated methane cycling in a tropical serpentinizing environment: the Santa Elena Ophiolite, Costa Rica. Front. Microbiol., https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00916

 

2016

 

  • Sánchez-Murillo, R., Delgado, M., Espinach, D., Lobo, M., Madrigal, F., Morera, A., Rojas, K., et al. 2016. Variación espacial de la composición de 222Rn en los acuíferos Barva y Colima Superior, Costa Rica. Rev. Geol. América Central, 55: 145-163. doi: 10.15517/rgac.v55i0.27072.

  • Sánchez-Murillo, R., A.M. Durán-Quesada, C. Birkel, G. Esquivel, J. Boll. 2016. Tropical precipitation and d-excess anomalies during El Niño 2014-16. Hydrological Processes Today, Scientific Briefings.  https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.11088

  • Candel, J., Brooks, E., Sánchez-Murillo, R., Grader, G., & Dijksma, R. 2016. Identifying groundwater recharge connections in the Moscow (USA) sub-basin using isotopic tracers and a soil moisture routing model. Hydrogeology Journal, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-016-1431-x

  • Sánchez-Murillo, R., and C. Birkel. 2016. Groundwater recharge mechanisms inferred from isoscapes in a complex tropical mountainous region. Geophys. Res. Lett., 43. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL068888

  • Sánchez-Murillo, R, Esquivel-Hernández G, Sáenz-RosaleS O, Piedra-Marín G, Fonseca-Sánchez A. 2016. Isotopic composition of precipitation and groundwater in the northern mountainous region of the Central Valley, Costa Rica. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies,  https://doi.org/10.1080/10256016.2016.1193503

  • Sanchez-Murillo, R., Welsh, K., C. Birkel, G. Esquivel-Hernández, J. Corrales-Salazar, J. Boll, E. Brooks, O. Roupsard, O. Sáenz-Rosales, I. Katchan, R. Arce-Mesén, C. Soulsby, L. J. Araguás-Araguás. 2016. Key drivers controlling daily stable isotope variations in precipitation of Costa Rica: Caribbean Sea versus eastern Pacific Ocean moisture sources. Quaternary Science Reviews, 13: 1250-261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.08.028

  • Corrales-Salazar J.L, Sánchez-Murillo R, Esquivel-Hernández G, Herrera E. 2016. Tracking the water fingerprints of Cocos Island: an analysis of isotopic variation in precipitation, surface and groundwater. Int. J. Trop. Biol., 64 (Suppl. 1): S105-S0120.  https://doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v64i1.23420

 

2013-2015

 

  • Germain Esquivel-Hernández, Mario Villalobos-Forbes, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, Christian Birkel, Juan Valdés-González, Jan Boll. 2015. Near Surface Carbon Dioxide and Methane in Urban Areas of Costa Rica. Air Pollution, 4: 208-223. 10.4236/ojap.2015.44018

  • Villalobos-González W, Esquivel-Hernández G, Sánchez-Murillo R, Corrales-Salazar J.L. 2015. Analysis of benzene exposure levels of commuters traveling within the metropolitan area of Costa Rica. Air Pollution, 4, 38-46. 10.4236/ojap.2015.41005

  • Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, Erin S Brooks, William J Elliot & Jan Boll. 2015. Isotope hydrology and baseflow geochemistry in natural and human-altered watersheds in the Inland Pacific Northwest, USA. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies. doi:10.1080/10256016.2015.1008468

  • Sanchez-Murillo, R., Brooks, E., Elliot W.J., Gazel E., and Boll, J. 2015. Baseflow recession analysis in the inland Pacific Northwest. Hydrogeology Journal, 23 (2): 287-303. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-014-1191-4

  • Sánchez-Murillo R., Gazel E., Schwarzenbach E, Crespo-Medina M, Schrenk M, Boll J, and Gill B. 2014. Geochemical evidence for active tropical serpentinization in the Santa Elena Ophiolite, Costa Rica: An analogue of a humid early Earth? Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.15,https://doi.org/10.1002/2013GC005213

  • Sánchez-Murillo R., Brooks E.S., Simpson, L, Boll J., and Wilhelm, F. 2013. Ecohydrological analysis of steelhead (O. mykiss) habitat in an effluent dependent stream in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Ecohydrology, https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1376

  • Sánchez-Murillo, R., G. Esquivel-Hernández, K. Welsh, E.S. Brooks, J. Boll, R. Alfaro-Solís, and J. Valdés-González. 2013. Spatial and temporal variation of stable isotopes in precipitation across Costa Rica: an analysis of historic GNIP records. Modern Hydrology, 3, 226-240, doi: 10.4236/ojmh.2013.34027

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