Fig. 2: Performance of the reconciliation approach on the network structure.
From: Reconciling tracked atmospheric water flows to close the global freshwater cycle
Comparison of bilateral flow changes ante- and post-Iterative Proportional Fitting (IPF) application for the composite matrix of forward and backward atmospheric moisture connections sourced from the UTrack dataset and aggregated at the country/ocean scale (a) density scatter plot of bilateral moisture volumes before (on the x-axis) and after (on the y-axis) the IPF application (values are plotted in logarithmic scale). The colour bar shows the normalized point density, scaled from 0 (lowest) to 1 (maximum observed density). b Scatter plot of the terrestrial moisture recycling (TMR) at the country scale before (on the x-axis) and after (on the y-axis) the IPF application. The circles’ size represents the volume of mean annual precipitation (2008–2017), while the circles’ colour indicates the relative change [%] of TMR before and after the IPF application.
