100 years of lake evolution over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

G Zhang, Y Ran, W Wan, W Luo… - Earth System Science …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Lakes can be effective indicators of climate change, and this is especially so for the lakes
over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP), the highest plateau in the world, which undergo little …

Lakes' state and abundance across the Tibetan Plateau

G Zhang, T Yao, H Xie, K Zhang, F Zhu - Chinese Science Bulletin, 2014 - Springer
Understanding the changes in number and areal extent of lakes, as well as their abundance
and size distribution is important for assessments of regional and global water resources …

Coherent lake growth on the central Tibetan Plateau since the 1970s: Characterization and attribution

Y Lei, T Yao, BW Bird, K Yang, J Zhai, Y Sheng - Journal of Hydrology, 2013 - Elsevier
Although lakes on the central Tibetan Plateau (TP) expanded significantly in recent
decades, causes for the lake growth still have not been well addressed. Based on remote …

Annual 30-m big Lake Maps of the Tibetan Plateau in 1991–2018

R Zhao, P Fu, Y Zhou, X Xiao, S Grebby, G Zhang… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Lake systems on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are important for the supply and storage of fresh
water to billions of people. However, previous studies on the dynamics of these lakes …

Regional differences of lake evolution across China during 1960s–2015 and its natural and anthropogenic causes

G Zhang, T Yao, W Chen, G Zheng, CK Shum… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Lakes are sensitive indicators of anthropogenic climate change and also respond to direct
human activities. Yet, long-term lake inventories and quantitative evaluation of the factors …

[PDF][PDF] A robust but variable lake expansion on the Tibetan Plateau

G Zhang, W Luo, W Chen, G Zheng - Sci. Bull, 2019 - 60.245.210.47
Lakes on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are an indicator and sentinel of climatic changes [1]. We
extended lake area changes on the TP from 2010 [2] to 2018, and provided a long and …

A lake data set for the Tibetan Plateau from the 1960s, 2005, and 2014

W Wan, D Long, Y Hong, Y Ma, Y Yuan, P Xiao… - Scientific Data, 2016 - nature.com
Long-term datasets of number and size of lakes over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are among
the most critical components for better understanding the interactions among the …

The driving forces underlying spatiotemporal lake extent changes in the inner Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene

X Liu, D Madsen, X Zhang - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Inner Tibetan Plateau (ITP), the central and western part of the Tibetan Plateau (TP),
covers about one-fourth of the entire TP and contains more than 800 endorheic lakes larger …

Comprehensive estimation of lake volume changes on the Tibetan Plateau during 1976–2019 and basin-wide glacier contribution

G Zhang, T Bolch, W Chen, JF Crétaux - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Volume changes and water balances of the lakes on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are spatially
heterogeneous and the lake-basin scale drivers remain unclear. In this study, we …

Unprecedented lake expansion in 2017–2018 on the Tibetan Plateau: Processes and environmental impacts

Y Lei, T Yao, Y Sheng, K Yang, W Yang, S Li, J Zhou… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Extreme events on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) have become increasingly frequent and severe
in recent decades in tandem with rapid climate warming and moistening. Thus, it is highly …