The imbalance of the Asian water tower

T Yao, T Bolch, D Chen, J Gao, W Immerzeel… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Hindu Kush–Karakoram–Himalayan system, named the Third Pole because it
is the largest global store of frozen water after the polar regions, provides a reliable water …

Global climate impacts of land‐surface and atmospheric processes over the Tibetan Plateau

J Huang, X Zhou, G Wu, X Xu, Q Zhao… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) impacts local and remote atmospheric circulations,
wherein it mechanically and thermally affects air masses or airflows. Moreover, the TP …

Widespread societal and ecological impacts from projected Tibetan Plateau lake expansion

F Xu, G Zhang, RI Woolway, K Yang, Y Wada… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Lakes on the Tibetan Plateau are expanding rapidly in response to climate change.
The potential impact on the local environment if lake expansion continues remains …

Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms

G Zhang, T Yao, H **e, K Yang, L Zhu, CK Shum… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The wide distribution of natural lakes over the Tibetan Plateau, the highest and largest
plateau on Earth, have received extensive attention due to global warming. In this Review …

Recent third pole's rapid warming accompanies cryospheric melt and water cycle intensification and interactions between monsoon and environment: Multidisciplinary …

T Yao, Y Xue, D Chen, F Chen… - Bulletin of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Third Pole (TP) is experiencing rapid warming and is currently in its warmest
period in the past 2,000 years. This paper reviews the latest development in multidisciplinary …

Climate change, vegetation history, and landscape responses on the Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene: A comprehensive review

F Chen, J Zhang, J Liu, X Cao, J Hou, L Zhu… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Numerous studies of changes in the climate, vegetation and landscape responses of the
Tibetan Plateau (TP) during the Holocene have been published in recent decades …

[PDF][PDF] Quantifying the major drivers for the expanding lakes in the interior Tibetan Plateau.

J Zhou, L Wang, X Zhong, T Yao, J Qi, Y Wang… - Science …, 2022 - escholarship.org
Lakes are an important component of the terrestrial hydrosphere, and have a strong
influence on the regional hydrological cycle [1]. Due to the distinctive geographic location …

Why has the inner Tibetan Plateau become wetter since the mid-1990s?

J Sun, K Yang, W Guo, Y Wang, J He… - Journal of Climate, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Inner Tibetan Plateau (ITP; also called the Qiangtang Plateau) appears to have
experienced an overall wetting in summer (June, July, and August) since the mid-1990s …

The critical role of education and ICT in promoting environmental sustainability in Eastern and Southern Africa: A panel VAR approach

OA Shobande, SA Asongu - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022 - Elsevier
The struggle to combat climate change remains complex and challenging. Currently, two
climate change approaches, namely, mitigation and adaptation, have been widely …

Lake volume monitoring from space

JF Crétaux, R Abarca-del-Río, M Berge-Nguyen… - Surveys in …, 2016 - Springer
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) …