Elevation dependent warming over the Tibetan Plateau: Patterns, mechanisms and perspectives

Q You, D Chen, F Wu, N Pepin, Z Cai, B Ahrens… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is also known as the “Third Pole”. Elevation dependent
warming (EDW), the phenomenon that warming rate changes systematically with elevation …

Western disturbances: a review

AP Dimri, D Niyogi, AP Barros, J Ridley… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Cyclonic storms associated with the midlatitude Subtropical Westerly Jet (SWJ), referred to
as Western Disturbances (WDs), play a critical role in the meteorology of the Indian …

[HTML][HTML] A long-term (2005–2016) dataset of hourly integrated land–atmosphere interaction observations on the Tibetan Plateau

Y Ma, Z Hu, Z Xie, W Ma, B Wang… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) plays a critical role in influencing regional and global
climate, via both thermal and dynamical mechanisms. Meanwhile, as the largest high …

High carbon dioxide uptake by subtropical forest ecosystems in the East Asian monsoon region

G Yu, Z Chen, S Piao, C Peng, P Ciais… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Temperate-and high-latitude forests have been shown to contribute a carbon sink in the
Northern Hemisphere, but fewer studies have addressed the carbon balance of the …

Spatial and temporal characteristics of droughts in Central Asia during 1966–2015

H Guo, A Bao, T Liu, F Ndayisaba, L Jiang… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
In drought-prone regions like Central Asia, drought monitoring studies are paramount to
provide valuable information for drought risk mitigation. In this paper, the spatiotemporal …

Tibetan Plateau climate dynamics: recent research progress and outlook

G Wu, A Duan, Y Liu, J Mao, R Ren, Q Bao… - National Science …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
This paper reviews progress in the study of Tibetan Plateau (TP) climate dynamics over the
past decade. Several theoretical frameworks, including thermal adaptation and the TP …

Does the climate warming hiatus exist over the Tibetan Plateau?

A Duan, Z Xiao - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
The surface air temperature change over the Tibetan Plateau is determined based on
historical observations from 1980 to 2013. In contrast to the cooling trend in the rest of China …

Review of climate and cryospheric change in the Tibetan Plateau

S Kang, Y Xu, Q You, WA Flügel… - Environmental …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP), with an average elevation of over 4000 m asl and an
area of approximately 2.5× 10 6 km 2, is the highest and most extensive highland in the …

Evaluation of the global climate models in the CMIP5 over the Tibetan Plateau

F Su, X Duan, D Chen, Z Hao, L Cuo - Journal of climate, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
The performance of 24 GCMs available in the fifth phase of the Coupled Model
Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) is evaluated over the eastern Tibetan Plateau (TP) by …

The influences of climate change and human activities on vegetation dynamics in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

K Huang, Y Zhang, J Zhu, Y Liu, J Zu, J Zhang - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
Grasslands occupy nearly three quarters of the land surface of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau
(QTP) and play a critical role in regulating the ecological functions of the QTP. Ongoing …