EurekAlert April 10, 2024 Researchers in China investigated isolated deep convections (IDCs), which have a smaller spatial and temporal size than mesoscale convective systems (MCSs), over the TP in the rainy season during 2001–2020. They showed that IDCs mainly concentrated over the southern Tibetan plateau (TP). The larger IDC had intense precipitation contributing 20 %–30 % to total precipitation, with a larger percentage in July and August than in June and September. IDCs contribute more to both total precipitation and extreme precipitation over the TP compared to the surrounding plain regions. IDCs over the TP account for a larger fraction […]
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Lake water storage on Inner Tibetan Plateau increases under climate change, finds study
Phys.org April 10, 2023 Lakes store 20% of surface freshwater resources and are an important link for studying the interactions between the various spheres of the Earth system. There are approximately 1400 lakes larger than 1 km2 on the Tibetan Plateau (TP), with a total area of approximately 50,000 km2, accounting for half of the number and area of lakes in China. Researchers in China estimated lake water storage anomalies (LWSA) of 18 lakes (area greater than 300 km2) during 2002–2018 on the Inner TP. They projected future changes of LWSA for an intermediate scenario based on an artificial neural […]
Third pole darkening affects local and remote climates, finds study
Phys.org March 28, 2023 Despite knowledge of the presence of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) in reorganizing large-scale atmospheric circulation, it remains unclear how surface albedo darkening over TP will impact local glaciers and remote Asian monsoon systems. An international team of researchers (USA – Columbia University, Austria, Germany, France) used a coupled land-atmosphere global climate model and a glacier model to address these questions. According to their model, under a high-emission scenario, TP surface albedo darkening would increase local temperature by 0.24 K by the end of this century. This warming would strengthen the elevated heat pump of TP, increasing South […]