Rivers originating in the Tibetan Plateau provide freshwater to downstream populations, yet runoff projections from warming are unclear due to precipitation uncertainties. Here, we use a historical atmospheric circulation–precipitation relationship to c
Climate changeThe Zoigê PlateauA 600-year high-resolution pollen record from a peat core (FS-2010) on the Zoig锚 Plateau was obtained to reconstruct vegetation and climate changes on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Surface pollen data reveal that vegetation differences are reflected in different ...
Climate changeClimate-change policyEnvironmental impactBlack carbon (BC) aerosols constitute unique and important anthropogenic climate forcers that potentially accelerate the retreat of glaciers over the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau (HTP). Here we show thata large amount of BC emissions produced in ...
The Plateau of Tibet is an initiator and regulator of climate change in the northern hemisphere, for the climate change of this area is not only a direct driver of climate change in the east and southwest of China but also in the Northern Hemisphere. Even to global climate change, it prese...
As the "third pole" of the world, the Tibetan Plateau has important effects on climate in its surrounding areas and the whole world. Achievements have been gained on climate change since the last inter-glacial period in recent decades from ice core, tree
The lakes, rivers and glaciers of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) — a vital water resource for East Asia — are undergoing substantial environmental change. In this Review, we examine trends in the size and the physical and biogeochemical properties of TP lake
The high, dry Tibetan Plateau (average elevation approximately 4000m) is a region of dry steppes, alpine mats (especially of Kobresia species), dwarf conifer scrub of Juniperus and Sabinia, and other sparse, low-growing, often cushion-shrub vegetation adapted to the harsh conditions. ...
BEIJING, June 17 (Xinhua) -- A study led by Chinese scientists found that anthropogenic activities exert much stronger pressure on vegetation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau than climate change. Previous studies had indicated that climate variability instead of overgrazing was the primary cause for lar...
et al. Climate change on the Tibetan Plateau in response to shifting atmospheric circulation since the LGM. Sci. Rep. 5, 13318; doi: 10.1038/srep13318 (2015). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in ...
Terrestrial water storage (TWS) over the Tibetan Plateau, a major global water tower, is crucial in determining water transport and availability to a large downstream Asian population. Climate change impacts on historical and future TWS changes, however, are not well quantified. Here we used bottom...