The most important sources of atmospheric moisture at the global scale are herein identified,
both oceanic and terrestrial, and a characterization is made of how continental regions are …

Green water, or plant‐available soil moisture, is a substantial subset of terrestrial fresh
water. Land‐use change (LUC) alters green water dynamics through interactions on the …

Surface-water availability, defined as precipitation minus evapotranspiration, can be affected
by changes in vegetation. These impacts can be local, due to the modification of …

Reduced evaporation due to dry soils can affect the land surface energy balance, with
implications for local and downwind precipitation. When evaporation is constrained by soil …

There has been a long debate on the extent to which precipitation relies on terrestrial
evaporation (moisture recycling). In the past, most research focused on moisture recycling …

Global warming driven by rising greenhouse-gas concentrations is expected to cause wet
regions of the tropics and mid to high latitudes to get wetter and subtropical dry regions to …

The water cycle over the Amazon basin is a regulatory mechanism for regional and global
climate. The atmospheric moisture evaporated from this basin represents an important …

It is generally believed that water vapour from the North Atlantic transported by the mid‐
latitude westerlies dominates precipitation variations in arid Central Asia, where monsoonal …

Abstract From 17 November to 27 December 2022, extremely cold snowstorms frequently
swept across North America and Eurasia. Diagnostic analysis reveals that these extreme …

The assessment of sources of moisture is key to the understanding of the hydrological cycle
at different time scales, because it enables the establishment of source-sink relationships …