Stores include puddles, rivers, lakes (surface storage), glaciers, soil storage and groundwater storage along with water stored on vegetation (interception) following precipitation. Transfers or flows include percolation, overland flow, infiltration, stemflow, throughflow and overland flow.

Is infiltration a transfer?

Inputs - precipitation including rain and snow, and solar energy for evaporation. Outputs - evaporation and transpiration from plants (evapotranspiration), runoff into the sea, percolation of water into underlying rock strata. ... Transfers or Flows - infiltration, Percolation, overland flow, throughflow, groundwater flow.

What are the stores in the water cycle?

The major stores of water are the ocean, ice caps, land and the atmosphere. The movement of water between these stores is called transfers .