National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Review of USGCRP Plan for a New Science Initiative on the Global Water Cycle

The global water cycle is central to the Earth’s climate system. It transcends conventional disciplinary boundaries and is a pervasive aspect of the physical, biological, and chemical processes and ...
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BYU-created water cycle resources adopted by USGS for nationwide use

BYU's new hydrologic cycle, representing major water pools in blue text, natural water fluxes in black text and human-impacted fluxes in orange. Illustration by Eliza Anderson. The United States ...
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Time to treat global water cycle as critical infrastructure

By harnessing recent advances in science, monitoring technologies and data availability, we can finally start treating water ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Review of USGCRP Plan for a New Science Initiative on the Global Water Cycle

In August 1999, the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) commissioned a panel of experts (referred to in this report as the Water Cycle Study Group, WCSG) to advise the USGCRP agencies on ...

The global water cycle is critical infrastructure

The global water cycle is our planet’s life-support system. It is a powerful environmental pump, with forests transpiring ...