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Different glacier status with atmospheric circulations in Tibetan Plateau and surroundings
Tandong Yao,Lonnie G. Thompson,Lonnie G. Thompson,Wei Yang,Wusheng Yu,Yang Gao,Xuejun Guo,Xiaoxin Yang,Keqin Duan,Huabiao Zhao,Baiqing Xu,Jiancheng Pu,Anxin Lu,Yang Xiang,Dambaru Ballab Kattel,Daniel R. Joswiak +15 more
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This paper found that the most intensive glacier shrinkage is in the Himalayan region, whereas glacial retreat in the Pamir Plateau region is less apparent, due to changes in atmospheric circulations and precipitation patterns.Abstract:
Glacial melting in the Tibetan Plateau affects the water resources of millions of people. This study finds that—partly owing to changes in atmospheric circulations and precipitation patterns—the most intensive glacier shrinkage is in the Himalayan region, whereas glacial retreat in the Pamir Plateau region is less apparent.read more
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Recent climate changes over the Tibetan Plateau and their impacts on energy and water cycle: A review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed recent research progress in the climate changes and explored their impacts on the Plateau energy and water cycle, based on which a conceptualmodeltosynthesize these changes was proposed andurgent issues to be explored were summarized.
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Consistent increase in High Asia's runoff due to increasing glacier melt and precipitation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a large-scale, high-resolution cryospheric hydrological model to quantify the upstream hydrologogical regimes of the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Salween and Mekong rivers and analyzed the impacts of climate change on future water availability in these basins using the latest climate model ensemble.
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Region-wide glacier mass balances over the Pamir-Karakoram-Himalaya during 1999–2011
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the 2000 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) digital elevation model (DEM) to recent (2008-2011) DEMs derived from SPOT5 stereo imagery.
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A spatially resolved estimate of High Mountain Asia glacier mass balances from 2000 to 2016
TL;DR: The results shed light on the Nyainqentanglha and Pamir glacier mass changes, for which contradictory estimates exist in the literature, and provide crucial information for the calibration of the models used for projections of future glacier response to climatic changes.
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Third Pole Environment (TPE)
Tandong Yao,Lonnie G. Thompson,Volker Mosbrugger,Fan Zhang,Yaoming Ma,Tianxiang Luo,Baiqing Xu,Xiaoxin Yang,Daniel R. Joswiak,Weicai Wang,Meri Joswiak,Lochan Prasad Devkota,Shresth Tayal,Rahmatullah Jilani,Radjabovich Fayziev +14 more
TL;DR: The Third Pole Environment (TPE) program as mentioned in this paper aims to attract relevant research institutions and academic talents to focus on a theme of water-ice-air-ecosystem-human interactions, to reveal environmental change processes and mechanisms on the Third Pole and their influences on and responses to global changes, and thus to serve for enhancement of human adaptation to the changing environment and realization of human nature harmony.
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Climate change will affect the Asian water towers.
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TL;DR: The contemporary evolution of glaciers in the Himalayan region is reviewed, including those of the less well sampled region of the Karakoram to the Northwest, in order to provide a current, comprehensive picture of how they are changing.
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Climatic warming in the Tibetan Plateau during recent decades
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