Please see our new article, https://www.sciltp.com/journals/hwr/articles/2508001151, which not only places water balance research in its best historical context, but generates potential predictions for the future global temperatures and predicts (here) the continental-scale and global scale water balance with high accuracy. The same theoretical foundation has been published in 2023 in AGU Advances (appeared in Eos), in which the climate and storage dependence of streamflow elasticity is generated, in 2024 in WRR, in which Budyko's summary of NPP across Asia is predicted, in 2025 in Ecological Modelling, in which tree species richness over the North American continent is predicted, and STOTEN (2025), in which the basin size dependence of storage is predicted.
Allen Hunt