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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 30.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Geosci. 2018 Nov 30;11:926–932. doi: 10.1038/s41561-018-0265-7

Table 1. TWS changes and hydrological attributions in zonal and global endorheic basins from April 2002 to March 2016.

All uncertainties are 95% (2-sigma) CIs.

Endorheic
Region
Area Terrestrial Water Storage Surface Water Soil Moisture Groundwater
106 km2 Gt yr−1 mm yr−1 SLE Gt yr−1 % of ΔTWS Gt yr−1 % of ΔTWS Gt yr−1 % of ΔTWS
Central Eurasia 12.69 −73.64 (±7.74) 0.203 (±0.021) −35.40 (±6.19) 48.08 (±8.40) −23.34 (±4.91) 31.70 (±6.67) −14.89 (±11.06) 20.23 (±15.01)
Caspian Sea 3.17 −40.96 (±4.66) 0.113 (±0.013) −28.22 (±2.62) 68.91 (±6.39) −17.08 (±3.36) 41.69 (±8.21) 4.34 (±6.31) −10.60 (±15.41)
Aral Sea 1.65 −7.31 (±1.68) 0.020 (±0.005) −6.04 (±0.86) 82.67 (±11.77) −2.28 (±0.79) 31.25 (±10.80) 1.02 (±2.04) −13.92 (±27.95)
Tibet 1.06 5.06 (±1.04) −0.014 (±0.003) 4.13 (±1.27) 81.76 (±25.04) 0.40 (±0.58) 7.98 (±11.45) 0.52 (±1.74) 10.26 (±34.37)
Others 6.80 −30.42 (±3.17) 0.084 (±0.009) −5.27 (±3.11) 17.32 (±10.22) −4.38 (±1.85) 14.41 (±6.07) −20.77 (±4.81) 68.27 (±15.80)
Sahara/Arabia 11.07 −33.10 (±3.57) 0.091 (±0.010) 0.01 (±0.53) −0.03 (±1.61) 0.12 (±2.46) −0.36 (±7.43) −33.23 (±4.37) 100.39 (±13.19)
Andes/Patagonia 1.38 −9.61 (±1.96) 0.026 (±0.005) −2.88 (±1.40) 29.94 (±14.62) −2.98 (±0.89) 31.06 (±9.29) −3.75 (±2.57) 39.00 (±26.73)
Australia 4.13 −4.05 (±4.86) 0.011 (±0.013) −0.03 (±1.73) 0.79 (±42.68) −0.20 (±2.47) 4.88 (±61.08) −3.82 (±5.72) 94.33 (±141.27)
North America 1.33 −2.53 (±2.00) 0.007 (±0.006) −0.43 (±0.58) 16.82 (±23.00) −1.32 (±0.72) 51.99 (±28.44) −0.79 (±2.21) 31.19 (±87.18)
GRVSA 2.07 16.60 (±2.28) −0.046 (±0.006) 0.37 (±0.60) 2.21 (±3.60) −0.30 (±1.33) −1.82 (±8.01) 16.54 (±2.70) 99.61 (±16.28)
Global 32.67 −106.32 (±11.70) 0.293 (±0.032) −38.36 (±10.52) 36.08 (±9.89) −28.02 (±7.93) 26.36 (±7.46) −39.94 (±17.62) 37.56 (±16.57)