Global Hydrological Cycle

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  • Global Hydrological Cycle
    • fixed amount of water on Earth - closed system
    • stores
      • global - oceans, lakes,aquifers, cryosphere
      • local - vegetation storage, surface storage, soil moisture and groundwater storage
    • flows
      • infiltration
      • throughflow
      • percolation
      • stem flow
      • base flow
      • channel flow
      • surface runoff
    • processes
      • precipitation
      • evaporation
      • transportation
      • cryosphere exchanges
      • runoff
    • global water supply
      • 96.5% in oceans ans seas
      • 2.5% is freshwater (not salty)
      • 0.9% in other saline water sources
    • freshwater
      • 69% in the cryosphere
      • 30% in groundwater
      • 1.2% is in surface water
    • surface water
      • 69% in ice and permafrost
      • 20% in lakes
      • 3.8% is in soil moisture
      • 3% in the atmosphere
      • 2.6% in swamps and marshes
      • 0.5% in rivers
      • 0.26% in the biosphere

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