evaporation

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Eric Tillemans, DWP’s interim aqueduct manager, told the state board that the city’s studies have found Mono Lake’s levels are “more dependent on precipitation, evaporation and runoff than any other factors.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

Using nearly 20 years of satellite measurements, Jiang and co-author Jennifer Burney of Stanford University quantified how much of global rainfall begins as land-based evaporation.

From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2025

At the heart of Liverpool’s crisis is a total evaporation of its attack.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans.

From Salon • Jul. 28, 2025

The peril of irrigation for farmers is evaporation.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann