Considering the estimates of the ocean's "fill rate"(10.7m3/s), the ocean's estimate volume(1.35x1018m3), and the number of fills theocean has received in the Earth's 4.0 billion year history(1.1x1039 # of fills), discuss the mechanisms at work(on a global scale) which:
1) Prevent the ocean from"over-filling";
2) Supply "new" sources of water to keep theworld's rivers flowing;
3) Could effectively remove water from therecycling paradigm; and
4) the likely effects of global warming andcooling on these dynamics.