Q What is the hydrologic cycle? A The hydrologic cycle describes the circulation of water from the ocean and other watery surfaces to the atmosphere and to the land. A major source of atmospheric ...

The next time you see a raindrop splash onto the ground or into a puddle, stop for a moment to ponder its origin and fate. Most of Earth's rain originates from water vapor evaporated from the oceans.

Hydrologic Cycle: The water cycle is a process that occurs around us without our notice. It involves changes in the state of the water. A water cycle describes how water on Earth remains here and does ...

Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon's rainfall cycle over the last 40 years: wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier. Research co-led ...

Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol. 7, No. 5 (October 2006), pp. 916-936 (21 pages) ABSTRACT The La Plata River basin is the second largest basin of South America after the Amazon basin, and it is ...

The Argo network of ocean-observing sensors is expected to pay its biggest dividends to climate researchers in the future after several decades’ worth of Argo data help them observe some of the ...

ABSTRACT The seasonal and annual climatological behavior of selected components of the hydrological cycle are presented from coupled and uncoupled configurations of the atmospheric component of the ...

The global hydrological cycle is spinning out of balance due to human activities, with droughts and extreme rainfall spurring climate change, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on ...