In a budget of water, a stock is the amount of water held in a reservoir — the ocean, the air, the ice, an aquifer, a lake — at a given time, as a volume or a mass. A flux is the amount that passes from one reservoir to another per unit time, for example in cubic kilometres per year.
Earth and Space Sciences · Glossary
What is Stock; flux?
Also known as: stock (of water) · flux (of water)