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Atmospheric water recycling an essential feature of critical natural asset stewardship

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Keys,  Patrick W.
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Collins,  Pamela M.
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Chaplin-Kramer,  Rebecca
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Wang-Erlandsson,  Lan
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

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Keys, P. W., Collins, P. M., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Wang-Erlandsson, L. (2024): Atmospheric water recycling an essential feature of critical natural asset stewardship. - Global Sustainability, 7, e2.
https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2023.24


Cite as: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_30317
Abstract
In this paper, we explore how critically important ecosystems on the land provide evaporation to the atmosphere, which will later fall as precipitation elsewhere. Using a model-based analysis that tracks water flowing through the atmosphere, we find that more than two-thirds of the precipitation over critically important ecosystem areas is supplied by evaporation from other land. Likewise, more than 40% of the evaporation from critically important ecosystems falls as precipitation on other land. We conclude our work by discussing the policy implications for how these critically important ecosystems connect spatially distant wild and working lands via the atmospheric water cycle.