Triple oxygen isotope ratios offer new opportunities to improve reconstructions of past climate by quantifying evaporation, relative humidity, and diagenesis in geologic archives. However, the utility of in paleoclimate applications is hampered by a limited understanding of how precipitation values vary across time and space. To improve applications of , we present , -excess, and data from 26 precipitation sites in the western and central United States and three streams from the Willamette River Basin in western Oregon. In this data set, we find that precipitation tracks evaporation but appears insensitive to many controls that govern variation in , including Rayleigh distillation, elevation, latitude, longitude, and local precipitation amount. Seasonality has a large effect on variation in the data set and we observe higher seasonally amount-weighted average precipitation values in the winter (40 ± 15 per meg [± standard deviation]) than in the summer (18 ± 18 per meg). This seasonal precipitation variability likely arises from a combination of sub-cloud evaporation, atmospheric mixing, moisture recycling, sublimation, and/or relative humidity, but the data set is not well suited to quantitatively assess isotopic variability associated with each of these processes. The seasonal pattern, which is absent in -excess and opposite in sign from , appears in other data sets globally; it showcases the influence of seasonality on values of precipitation and highlights the need for further systematic studies to understand variation in values of precipitation.
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