Miss McDonald EQ1 Flashcards
Global hydrological cycle
- Closed system=all water continually circulated+constant amount driven solar energy-evaporates +evapotranspiration from plants-when humid air rises condenses cooler temps forming clouds so precipitation returned land+oceans
- also driven by gravitational potential energy as converted kinetic energy as moves thru system by plant interception, surface runoff, infiltration+ through flow or stored soil moisture/groundwater bedrock permeable/porous
Ocean storage and residence time
96.9%
3,600yrs
Cryosphere storage and residence time
1.9%
15,000yrs
Terrestrial storage and residence time
1.1101% (ground=1.1%, surface=0.01%, soil=0.01%, biosphere=0.0001%)
1week to 10,000yrs
(10,000yrs, 2-10yrs, 2w-50weeks, a week )
Atmosphere storage and residence time
0.01%
10years
Flows(fluxes) ocean-atmosphere
Ocean-atmosphere 400,000
Atmosphere-ocean 370,000
V fast but most returned quickly so ocean stays largest store
Flows(fluxes) atmosphere-land
Atmosphere-land 90,000
Land-atmosphere 60,000
Fast flux to land as atmosphere smallest store so land can benefit but most quickly comes back so it can be transported elsewhere with shortest residence time in atmosphere
Flows (fluxes) land-ocean
30,000
Important precipitation/evaporation budget as slow so constant transfer to largest water source doesn’t need be quick so it can benefit land so budget not too big+released slowly so doesnt’t get evaporated/ precipitated straight away
Global water budget
[global annual balance water flows+size water stores]
Constant circulation different speeds-considered renewable resource (altho imbalance across countries adding pressure to this cycle) but some stores not’renewed’ e.g. fossil water or cryosphere loss
Fossil water and cryosphere loss
- Fossil water in Sahara where rain from better periods stored 10,000yrs on in groundwater aquifers not renewable water contained undisturbed place W/lil-no significant recharge
- Warming climate-cryosphere melting(losses) means fresh water stores= lost+ not replenished from interglacial period
Lack of availability of fresh water to humans
- Freshwater=only 2.5% total global water
- 68.7% of it inaccessible in glaciers+30.1% groundwater can be inaccessible if v deep seated spends 10,000yrs in that store
- Remaining 1.2% surface/ other freshwater= most 69% ground ice+ permafrost high can’t be extracted e.g. in Antarctica for 800,000yrs
- 31% remaining only 1%rivers(main source ppl)+ 52%lakes most our accessible water isolated locations/difficult to extract
- most total global water=saline in oceans 96.5% or other saline water 0.9%
- pop rise-rise consumption water means more pressure+ demand lack availability fresh water to humans
Drainage basin=open system:
Their inputs not governed by outputs+ can loose more than they receive
Groundwater storage
Water held within permeable rocks (aquifer)
Infiltration
Water entering top soil, most common during slow or steady rainfall
Throughflow (inter-flow)
Water seeping laterally thru soil below surface, but above water table
Percolation
Downward seepage of water thru rock under gravity
Base flow(ground water flow)
Slow-moving water that seeps into a river channel
Channel-flow
Volume of water flowing within a river channel (discharge, runoff)
Transpiration
Water taken up by plants+ transpired onto leaf surface
Orographic (relief) [inputs in drainage basin]
When air forced rise over barrier e.g. mountain cools+ condenses forming rain. Leeward (downwind) slope received relatively lil rain, known rain shadow effect