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Estimation of global reservoir evaporation losses

Wei Tian, Xiaomang Liu, Kaiwen Wang, Peng Bai, Changming Liu, Xijin Liang · Journal of Hydrology (2022)

Key finding (our summary)

Estimates evaporation losses from reservoirs at global scale, putting a number on how much of the world's stored surface water is returned to the atmosphere each year.

Global accounting frames evaporation as a first-order term in the water balance of human-managed storage, not a rounding error.

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  1. Journal of Hydrology — Estimation of global reservoir evaporation losses