Correction to: Nature Geoscience https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2590, published online 16 November 2015.

In the version of this Article originally published, the wrong article was listed as ref. 33; it should have been “Oki, T. & Kanae, S. Global hydrological cycles and world water resources. Science 313, 1068–1072 (2006).” This has been corrected in the online versions of the Article.