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Fate of water pumped from underground and contributions to sea-level rise

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  • Yoshihide Wada

    (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
    Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University
    Utrecht University
    International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)

  • Min-Hui Lo

    (National Taiwan University)

  • Pat J.-F. Yeh

    (National University of Singapore)

  • John T. Reager

    (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)

  • James S. Famiglietti

    (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
    University of California)

  • Ren-Jie Wu

    (National Taiwan University)

  • Yu-Heng Tseng

    (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

Abstract

This study shows that 80% of extracted groundwater ends up in the ocean and contributed 0.27 mm per year to sea-level rise in 2000. These numbers indicate that previous studies overestimated groundwater contributions over the past century.

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  • Yoshihide Wada & Min-Hui Lo & Pat J.-F. Yeh & John T. Reager & James S. Famiglietti & Ren-Jie Wu & Yu-Heng Tseng, 2016. "Fate of water pumped from underground and contributions to sea-level rise," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 6(8), pages 777-780, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:6:y:2016:i:8:d:10.1038_nclimate3001
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3001
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    1. Eric Hillebrand & Søren Johansen & Torben Schmith, 2020. "Data Revisions and the Statistical Relation of Global Mean Sea Level and Surface Temperature," Econometrics, MDPI, vol. 8(4), pages 1-19, November.
    2. Guoping Ren & Jie Ye & Qichang Hu & Dong Zhang & Yong Yuan & Shungui Zhou, 2024. "Growth of electroautotrophic microorganisms using hydrovoltaic energy through natural water evaporation," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-10, December.

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