Fig. 1: Spatial distributions of global lake evaporation volume.
a Gridded annual evaporation volume (VE) averaged from 1985 to 2018. b Latitudinal distribution and seasonal variability of VE. c Distribution of lake surface area (As) and open water area (Ao). d Statistical distribution of VE at different evaporation rate (Elake) ranges. The original results for 1.42 million lakes and reservoirs were aggregated to equal-area grids in panel a under the World Eckert IV projection for purposes of better illustration. The areas of gray in the maps indicate no data. Seasons in panel b are represented by DJF (December, January, and February), MAM (March, April, and May), JJA (June, July, and August), and SON (September, October, and November). Box plots in panel d show upper quartile, median, and lower quartile, and the whiskers show the extreme value ranges.
