Lakes are integrators of environmental change occurring at both the regional and global
scale. They present a wide range of behavior on a variety of timescales (cyclic and secular) …

Permafrost extends 40% of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP), a region which contains the
headwaters of numerous major rivers in Asia. As an aquiclude, permafrost substantially …

Plastic pollution is fast becoming one of the most pressing global issues that we currently
face. Remote areas, such as the polar regions and the Tibetan Plateau, are now also …

China's largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake, is well known for its ecological and economic
importance as well as its rapid changes in lake inundation areas. However, due to technical …

Evidence has suggested a wetting trend over part of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) in recent
decades, although there are large uncertainties in this trend due to sparse observations …

The hydrological regimes for the major river basins in the Tibetan Plateau (TP), including the
source regions of the Yellow (UYE), Yangtze (UYA), Mekong (UM), Salween (US) …

The western Nyainqentanglha Range is located in the south-eastern centre of the Tibetan
Plateau. Its north-western slopes drain into Lake Nam Co. The region is of special interest …

Abstract Changes in moisture as represented by P− E (precipitation− evapotranspiration)
and the possible causes over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) during 1979–2011 are examined …

Lakes and vegetation are important factors of the Earth's hydrological cycle and can be
called an “indicator” of climate change. In this study, long-term changes of lakes' area and …

By using remote sensing and GIS technologies, spatial analysis and statistic analysis, we
calculated the water area and volume variations of the Nam Co Lake from 1971–2004, and …