Extended Data Fig. 2: Difference between yearly and monthly calculation of evaporation recycling from three river basins.

In our study, we present the results based on a yearly calculation of evaporation recycling. This figure displays the difference between the applied yearly calculation and a monthly calculation of evaporation recycling. For the yearly calculation, the monthly evaporation recycling from the UTrack dataset is aggregated to yearly evaporation recycling. For the monthly calculation, the increase in evaporation (from Budyko) is disaggregated over twelve months, relative to the local monthly evaporation from the ERA5-reanalysis product⁵⁸. Both the yearly and the monthly calculation in this figure display the yearly aggregated evaporation recycling. The figures display the increase in precipitation following a tree-restoration induced increase in evaporation from three different river basins: (a-c) Mississippi basin, (d-f) Ganges-Brahmaputra basin, and (g-i) Orange basin. (a, d, and g) display the yearly calculation, (b, e, and h) display the monthly calculation, and (c, f, and i) display the absolute difference between the monthly and yearly calculation.