Home >> Vital Water Graphics >> World's water cycle: schematic and residence time
World's water cycle: schematic and residence time
File type Download Size Language
.jpg .jpg Download 56 kb -

Use constraints

Using this graphic and referring to it is encouraged, and please use it in presentations, web pages, newspapers, blogs and reports.

For any form of publication, please include the link to this page and give the cartographer/designer credit (in this case Philippe Rekacewicz, UNEP/GRID-Arendal)

Fill in the form below to request permission

Name
Email
Purpose
Spam control + =
  Enter you Name, Email and the Purpose of use for the item.

Source(s)

Igor A. Shiklomanov, State Hydrological Institute (SHI, St. Petersburg) and UNESCO, Paris, 1999; Max Planck, Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, 1994; Freeze, Allen, John, Cherry, 'Groundwater': Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1979.

 

 

Uploaded on Saturday 25 Feb 2012 by GRID-Arendal

World's water cycle: schematic and residence time

Year: 2005
From collection: Vital Water Graphics
Author: Philippe Rekacewicz, UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Description:
The water cycle consists of precipitation, evaporation, evapotranspiration and runoff. This graphic explains the global water cycle, showing how nearly 577 000 km3 of water circulates through the cycle each year. A table of estimated residence times of the world's water shows the estimated times that water resources exist as biospheric water; atmospheric water; river channels; swamps; lakes and reservoirs; soil moisture; ice caps and glaciers; oceans and seas, and groundwater. The estimated residence times range from one week to 10,000 years.
Views: 415     Downloads: 208     Rating: 4
Regulation of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Benefits from marine and coastal ecosystems and activities
Water withdrawal and consumption
Renewable freshwater supplies, per river basin
Phosphate levels in major basins
Causes of sea level rise from climate change
Water consumption - top countries
carbon_cycle