Review on climate change on the Tibetan Plateau during the last half century

X Kuang, JJ Jiao - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is undergoing significant warming since the 1950s.
During the past two decades, extensive research has been conducted to investigate the …

Climatic and associated cryospheric, biospheric, and hydrological changes on the Tibetan Plateau: A review

S Bibi, L Wang, X Li, J Zhou, D Chen… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We review recent climate changes over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and associated responses
of cryospheric, biospheric, and hydrological variables. We focused on surface air …

High mountain areas

R Hock, G Rasul, C Adler, B Cáceres, S Gruber… - IPCC special report on …, 2019 - iris.unito.it
The cryosphere (including, snow, glaciers, permafrost, lake and river ice) is an integral
element of high mountain regions, which are home to roughly 10% of the global population …

Dual influence of climate change and anthropogenic activities on the spatiotemporal vegetation dynamics over the Qinghai‐Tibetan plateau from 1981 to 2015

Y Wei, H Lu, J Wang, X Wang, J Sun - Earth's Future, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change and human activities have already caused degradation in a large fraction of
vegetation on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau (QTP). Many studies report that climate variability …

Increasing heat stress in urban areas of eastern China: Acceleration by urbanization

M Luo, NC Lau - Geophysical Research Letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A combination of hot temperature and high humidity (high heat stress) has severe impacts
on environment, society, and public health, especially in urban areas where the majority of …

Anthropogenic warming of Tibetan Plateau and constrained future projection

T Zhou, W Zhang - Environmental Research Letters, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Serving as' the water tower of Asia', the Tibetan Plateau (TP) supplies water resources to
more than 1.4 billion people. It is warming more rapidly than the global average over the …

[PDF][PDF] Rapid warming in the Tibetan Plateau from observations and CMIP5 models in recent decades.

Q You, J Min, S Kang - International Journal of Climatology, 2016 - climatescience.ru
On the basis of mean temperature, maximum temperature and minimum temperature from
the updated China Homogenized Historical Temperature Data Sets, the recent warming in …

Contribution of urbanization to the changes in extreme climate events in urban agglomerations across China

L Lin, T Gao, M Luo, E Ge, Y Yang, Z Liu, Y Zhao… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Unprecedented urbanization in China facilitates the rapid development of urban
agglomerations (UAs) and may exert prominent effects on regional climate and environment …

Changes of snowfall under warming in the Tibetan Plateau

H Deng, NC Pepin, Y Chen - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Snowfall is a critical part of the hydrological system in high‐altitude regions and strongly
impacted by climate change. This study uses a threshold temperature method to estimate …

[HTML][HTML] Sea ice loss of the Barents-Kara Sea enhances the winter warming over the Tibetan Plateau

A Duan, Y Peng, J Liu, Y Chen, G Wu… - npj Climate and …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is known as one of the most sensitive regions to climate
change, and it has experienced accelerated warming in recent decades. However, to what …