Water and carbon cycle

• condensation (input)


  water vapour --> water
• precipitation (input)


  moisture falling from clouds
• ablation (input)


  loss of ice and snow from a glacier through melting, sublimation and evaporation
• zone of ablation


  wind-blown snow / avalanching

  sublimation -ice --> water vapour

  calving - ice breaking off the end
• evapotranspiration (output)


  loss of water at the surface of plant throughevaporation and transpiration
• evaporation (output)


  86% from oceans
• runoff (output)


  precipitation and meltwater drain from land into rivers

  
  

  most rivers drain into the sea, some into endorheic basis

  
  

  usually ending in a saline lake
• groundwater (both)


  water percolates through the rock layer into aquifers (output)

  
  

  water entering the surface at springs (input)
• rivers (both)


  drainage basin flowing into another (input)