scholarly journals Advancing a Multisphere Approach to Third Pole Research

Eos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Shen ◽  
Fan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
International Workshop ◽  
Qinghai Province

The International Workshop on Land Surface Multi-spheres Processes of Tibetan Plateau; Xining, Qinghai Province, China, 8–10 August 2016

Trends of land surface heat fluxes on the Tibetan Plateau from 2001 to 2012

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (14) ◽  
pp. 4757-4767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cunbo Han ◽  
Yaoming Ma ◽  
Xuelong Chen ◽  
Zhongbo Su
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Surface Heat ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Surface Heat Fluxes ◽  
Land Surface Heat Fluxes

scholarly journals Lenghu on the Tibetan Plateau as an astronomical observing site

Nature ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 596 (7872) ◽  
pp. 353-356
Author(s):  
Licai Deng ◽  
Fan Yang ◽  
Xiaodian Chen ◽  
Fei He ◽  
Qili Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Precipitable Water ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Local Surface ◽  
Night Temperature ◽  
Precipitable Water Vapour ◽  
Lower Altitude ◽  
Qinghai Province ◽  
Good Site

AbstractOn Earth’s surface, there are only a handful of high-quality astronomical sites that meet the requirements for very large next-generation facilities. In the context of scientific opportunities in time-domain astronomy, a good site on the Tibetan Plateau will bridge the longitudinal gap between the known best sites1,2 (all in the Western Hemisphere). The Tibetan Plateau is the highest plateau on Earth, with an average elevation of over 4,000 metres, and thus potentially provides very good opportunities for astronomy and particle astrophysics3–5. Here we report the results of three years of monitoring of testing an area at a local summit on Saishiteng Mountain near Lenghu Town in Qinghai Province. The altitudes of the potential locations are between 4,200 and 4,500 metres. An area of over 100,000 square kilometres surrounding Lenghu Town has a lower altitude of below 3,000 metres, with an extremely arid climate and unusually clear local sky (day and night)6. Of the nights at the site, 70 per cent have clear, photometric conditions, with a median seeing of 0.75 arcseconds. The median night temperature variation is only 2.4 degrees Celsius, indicating very stable local surface air. The precipitable water vapour is lower than 2 millimetres for 55 per cent of the night.

scholarly journals Uncertainty and Variation of Remotely Sensed Lake Ice Phenology across the Tibetan Plateau

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linan Guo ◽  
Yanhong Wu ◽  
Hongxing Zheng ◽  
Bing Zhang ◽  
Junsheng Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Remotely Sensed ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Remotely Sensed Data ◽  
Lake Ice ◽  
Reflectance Data ◽  
Ice Phenology

In the Tibetan Plateau (TP), the changes of lake ice phenology not only reflect regional climate change, but also impose substantial ecohydrological impacts on the local environment. Due to the limitation of ground observation, remote sensing has been used as an alternative tool to investigate recent changes of lake ice phenology. However, uncertainties exist in the remotely sensed lake ice phenology owing to both the data and methods used. In this paper, three different remotely sensed datasets are used to investigate the lake ice phenology variation in the past decade across the Tibetan Plateau, with the consideration of the underlying uncertainties. The remotely sensed data used include reflectance data, snow product, and land surface temperature (LST) data of moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS). The uncertainties of the three methods based on the corresponding data are assessed using the triple collocation approach. Comparatively, it is found that the method based on reflectance data outperforms the other two methods. The three methods are more consistent in determining the thawing dates rather than the freezing dates of lake ice. It is consistently shown by the three methods that the ice-covering duration in the northern part of the TP lasts longer than that in the south. Though there is no general trend of lake ice phenology across the TP for the period of 2000–2015, the warmer climate and stronger wind have led to the earlier break-up of lake ice.

scholarly journals Understanding precipitation recycling over the Tibetan Plateau using tracer analysis with WRF

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 2921-2937
Author(s):  
Yanhong Gao ◽  
Fei Chen ◽  
Gonzalo Miguez-Macho ◽  
Xia Li
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Precipitation Amount ◽  
Interaction Strength ◽  
Convective Precipitation ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Precipitation Recycling ◽  
Atmosphere Interaction

Abstract The precipitation recycling (PR) ratio is an important indicator that quantifies the land-atmosphere interaction strength in the Earth system’s water cycle. To better understand how the heterogeneous land surface in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) contributes to precipitation, we used the water-vapor tracer (WVT) method coupled with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) regional climate model. The goals were to quantify the PR ratio, in terms of annual mean, seasonal variability and diurnal cycle, and to address the relationships of the PR ratio with lake treatments and precipitation amount. Simulations showed that the PR ratio increases from 0.1 in winter to 0.4 in summer when averaged over the TP with the maxima centered at the headwaters of three major rivers (Yangtze, Yellow and Mekong). For the central TP, the highest PR ratio rose to over 0.8 in August, indicating that most of the precipitation was recycled via local evapotranspiration in summer. The larger daily mean and standard deviation of the PR ratio in summer suggested a stronger effect of land-atmosphere interactions on precipitation in summer than in winter. Despite the relatively small spatial extent of inland lakes, the treatment of lakes in WRF significantly impacted the calculation of the PR ratio over the TP, and correcting lake temperature substantially improved both precipitation and PR ratio simulations. There was no clear relationship between PR ratio and precipitation amount; however, a significant positive correlation between PR and convective precipitation was revealed. This study is beneficial for the understanding of land-atmosphere interaction over high mountain regions.

scholarly journals Variations in Winter Surface Temperature of the Purog Kangri Ice Field, Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, 2001–2018, Using MODIS Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1133
Author(s):  
Yufan Qie ◽  
Ninglian Wang ◽  
Yuwei Wu ◽  
An’an Chen
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Warming Trend ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Moderate Resolution ◽  
Ice Field ◽  
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ◽  
Meteorological Observations

In the context of global warming, the land surface temperature (LST) from remote sensing data is one of the most useful indicators to directly quantify the degree of climate warming in high-altitude mountainous areas where meteorological observations are sparse. Using the daily Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) LST product (MOD11A1 V6) after eliminating pixels that might be contaminated by clouds, this paper analyzes temporal and spatial variations in the mean LST on the Purog Kangri ice field, Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, in winter from 2001 to 2018. There was a large increasing trend in LST (0.116 ± 0.05 °C·a−1) on the Purog Kangri ice field during December, while there was no evident LST rising trend in January and February. In December, both the significantly decreased albedo (−0.002 a−1, based on the MOD10A1 V6 albedo product) on the ice field surface and the significantly increased number of clear days (0.322 d·a−1) may be the main reason for the significant warming trend in the ice field. In addition, although the two highest LST of December were observed in 2017 and 2018, a longer data set is needed to determine whether this is an anomaly or a hint of a warmer phase of the Purog Kangri ice field in December.

scholarly journals Land-surface processes and summer-cloud-precipitation characteristics in the Tibetan Plateau and their effects on downstream weather: a review and perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 500-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunfei Fu ◽  
Yaoming Ma ◽  
Lei Zhong ◽  
Yuanjian Yang ◽  
Xueliang Guo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Sensible Heat Flux ◽  
Vertical Direction ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Surface Processes ◽  
Convective Precipitation ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Land Surface Processes

Abstract Correct understanding of the land-surface processes and cloud-precipitation processes in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is an important prerequisite for the study and forecast of the downstream activities of weather systems and one of the key points for understanding the global atmospheric movement. In order to show the achievements that have been made, this paper reviews the progress on the observations for the atmospheric boundary layer, land-surface heat fluxes, cloud-precipitation distributions and vertical structures by using ground- and space-based multiplatform, multisensor instruments and the effect of the cloud system in the TP on the downstream weather. The results show that the form drag related to the topography, land–atmosphere momentum and scalar fluxes is an important part of the parameterization process. The sensible heat flux decreased especially in the central and northern TP caused by the decrease in wind speeds and the differences in the ground-air temperatures. Observations show that the cloud and precipitation over the TP have a strong diurnal variation. Studies also show the compressed-air column in the troposphere by the higher-altitude terrain of the TP makes particles inside clouds vary at a shorter distance in the vertical direction than those in the non-plateau area so that precipitation intensity over the TP is usually small with short duration, and the vertical structure of the convective precipitation over the TP is obviously different from that in other regions. In addition, the influence of the TP on severe weather downstream is preliminarily understood from the mechanism. It is necessary to use model simulations and observation techniques to reveal the difference between cloud precipitation in the TP and non-plateau areas in order to understand the cloud microphysical parameters over the TP and the processes of the land boundary layer affecting cloud, precipitation and weather in the downstream regions.

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