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

Yoshihide Wada (), Min-Hui Lo (), Pat J.-F. Yeh, John T. Reager, James S. Famiglietti, Ren-Jie Wu and Yu-Heng Tseng
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Yoshihide Wada: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
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
Ren-Jie Wu: National Taiwan University
Yu-Heng Tseng: National Center for Atmospheric Research

Nature Climate Change, 2016, vol. 6, issue 8, 777-780

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.

Date: 2016
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