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 …

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 …

Gainers and losers of surface and terrestrial water resources in China during 1989–2016

X Wang, X **ao, Z Zou, J Dong, Y Qin… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Data and knowledge of the spatial-temporal dynamics of surface water area (SWA) and
terrestrial water storage (TWS) in China are critical for sustainable management of water …

Lake volume and groundwater storage variations in Tibetan Plateau's endorheic basin

G Zhang, T Yao, CK Shum, S Yi, K Yang… - Geophysical …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP), the highest and largest plateau in the world, with complex
and competing cryospheric‐hydrologic‐geodynamic processes, is particularly sensitive to …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal variations in water conservation function of the Tibetan Plateau under climate change based on InVEST model

Y Wang, A Ye, D Peng, C Miao, Z Di, W Gong - Journal of Hydrology …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Study region The Tibetan Plateau, known as the “Water Tower of Asia”, is the
source of many rivers in Asia, and its water conservation function is the basis for the …

Water body classification from high-resolution optical remote sensing imagery: Achievements and perspectives

Y Li, B Dang, Y Zhang, Z Du - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Water body classification from high-resolution optical remote sensing (RS) images, aiming at
classifying whether each pixel of the image is water or not, has become a hot issue in the …

Extensive and drastically different alpine lake changes on Asia's high plateaus during the past four decades

G Zhang, T Yao, S Piao, T Bolch, H **e… - Geophysical …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Asia's high plateaus are sensitive to climate change and have been experiencing rapid
warming over the past few decades. We found 99 new lakes and extensive lake expansion …

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) …

Tibetan Plateau's lake level and volume changes from NASA's ICESat/ICESat‐2 and Landsat Missions

G Zhang, W Chen, H **e - Geophysical Research Letters, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Lake level change is an effective indicator of climate change, because it reflects the dynamic
balance of water input and loss. Here we provide a first look of Ice, Cloud, and land …

Continuous monitoring of lake dynamics on the Mongolian Plateau using all available Landsat imagery and Google Earth Engine

Y Zhou, J Dong, X **ao, R Liu, Z Zou, G Zhao… - Science of the Total …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Lakes are important water resources on the Mongolian Plateau (MP) for human's livelihood
and production as well as maintaining ecosystem services. Previous studies, based on the …