Water vapor flows

Flow of water in the atmosphere, in the form of water vapor.
Related terms include moisture recycling and atmospheric teleconnection

Publications:

• Revealing invisible Water: Moisture recycling as an ecosystem service (2016)
  • Analyses the extent to which vegetation sustains the supply of atmospheric moisture and precipitation for downwind beneficiaries , globally
• Remote land use impacts on river flows through atmospheric teleconnections (2018)
  • Looks at river flow changes caused by both land-use change and water use within the basin, as well as modifications of imported and exported atmospheric moisture.
  • In some of the world’s largest basins, precipitation was influenced more strongly by land-use change occurring outside than inside the basin.
• Human modification of global water vapor flows from the land surface (2005)
  • Investigates alteration of water vapor flows through land-use changes
  • Shows deforestation is as large a driving force as irrigation in terms of changes in the hydrological cycle

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