Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Effects on the Climate of the Tibetan Plateau and Surrounding Regions II

• Other Authors: Ma, Yaoming (Editor), Jia, Li (Editor), Menenti, Massimo (Editor), Zhong, Lei (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Research & information: general; soil moisture; soil temperature; seasonal and diurnal variation; vertical profile; Tibetan Plateau; typical inland twin lakes; change of water volume; multisource altimetry data; climate zones; GFDL-ESM2M; RCPs; drought characteristics projections; standardized precipitation-evapotranspiration index; Third Pole; in-situ and remote sensing data; modeling; glacier mass; coherent doppler wind LiDAR; northern edge of Tibetan plateau; dusty weather; monitoring application assessment; MODIS; lake surface water temperature; lake turnover; yardangs; wind erosion; climatic-environmental significance; condensation; desublimation; land-atmosphere interactions; latent heat flux; ERA5-Land; Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; freezing-thawing processes; climate change; air temperature and precipitation; Community Land Model; drought monitoring; machine learning method; sensible heat flux; Noah-MP; SEBS; land-atmosphere interaction; air temperature; ERA5-land; Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau; drought in Southwest China; dynamic effects; anticyclone on Tibetan Plateau; landscape pattern; runoff coefficient; soil erosion modulus; suspended sediment concentration; subtropical monsoon climate zone; southeastern China; groundwater storage; GRACE; GLDAS; vegetation response; vegetation change; near-surface air temperature; annual and seasonal variations; assimilation dataset; WRF model; freezing/thawing indices; permafrost dynamics; Community Land Surface Model; n/a
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As the world's highest and largest plateau, the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is referred to as 'the Asian Water Tower' and 'the Third Pole of the World'. A better understanding of the water and energy cycles in the TP is not only critical for revealing the mechanisms of regional land-atmosphere interactions, but also essential for assessing the causes of changes in the cryosphere and hydrosphere in relation to changes in the plateau atmosphere in the Asian monsoon system. Since the TP is an ecologically fragile region that is sensitive to climate change, the systematic evaluation of land-atmosphere interactions in this region also contributes to the quantitative understanding of climate change. This Special Issue mainly presents up-to-date advances in the quantitative assessment of sensible heat flux, soil moisture, soil freeze-thaw processes, vegetation and drought indices, groundwater storage, runoff, condensation, and desublimation, as well as the distinct surface processes over lakes and glaciers in the TP. These selected papers are novel and timely in informing the knowledge on land-atmosphere interactions driven by climate warming. We trust that the collection of these papers will provide quantitative references for more effective assessment and prediction of land-atmosphere interactions in the "Third Pole".