We haven't built the capability to divert some of
this additional water runoff into our depleting groundwater aquifers (underwater storage of water), so most of it goes into the ocean or evaporates.
Not exact matches
Which leads me to another question — the melting glacial / Greenland / Antarctic ice
water is depleted in CO2 (check out the bubbles in your ice cubes)-- how much
additional CO2 is being sequestered by this
runoff into the oceans, and what happens to CO2 increase when we run out of glaciers?
We define «
additional runoff due to thinning» as the portion of precipitation that appears as surface
water at the sub-watershed outlet and that is directly attributable to mechanical thinning treatments.
Now that
additional runoff is causing
water in areas that had never seen
water before.»
A thickening active layer will result in
additional water storage capacity in the soil and thawing of ground ice will not necessarily make
water available for
runoff.