{"id":5993,"date":"2009-08-04T20:03:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T20:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/04\/this-has-come-up-a\/"},"modified":"2009-08-04T20:03:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T20:03:30","slug":"this-has-come-up-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/this-has-come-up-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Distribution of Water on the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has come up a couple of times recently, so I thought I’d summarize the information here.<\/p>\n

The distribution of water on Earth in cubic kilometers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/table>\n

(Biological means like your spit and guts and all the juicy parts of worms and tree saps and water in bacteria and stuff.)<\/p>\n


\nUSGS<\/a><\/p>\n

Wikipedia<\/a>
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\nWhat happens if all that glacial ice melts and ends up in the ocean?<\/p>\n

Play with this <\/a> for a while to get an idea. The maximum rise in sea level in that model is probably not the maximum if all the ice melted, but all the ice won’t melt.<\/p>\n

Maybe .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This has come up a couple of times recently, so I thought I’d summarize the information here. The distribution of water on Earth in cubic kilometers Salt water: 1,318,062,462 Glaciers: 28,005,430 Groundwater: 12,270,210 Lakes: 106,396 Swamps: 13,452 Rivers: 2,446 Vapor: 13,000 Biological: 1,120 (Biological means like your spit and guts and all the juicy parts … Continue reading Distribution of Water on the Earth<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[148,120,3502,239],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1yF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Salt water:<\/td>\n 1,318,062,462<\/td>\n<\/tr>\nGlaciers: <\/td>\n28,005,430<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Groundwater: <\/td>\n12,270,210<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lakes: <\/td>\n106,396<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Swamps: <\/td>\n13,452<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rivers: <\/td>\n2,446<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vapor: <\/td>\n13,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Biological: <\/td>\n1,120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n