Energy and Water Cycles in the Third Pole

• Other Authors: Ma, Yaoming (Editor), Su, Zhongbo (Editor), Zhong, Lei (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Meteorology & climatology; Tibetan Plateau; climate warming; lake surface temperature; heat exchange; lake ice phenology; terrestrial evapotranspiration; convection-permitting modeling; monsoon season; non-monsoon season; Sichuan Basin; water vapor budget; summer precipitation; water resource variation; Indian Ocean; East Asia climate; vertical motion of air; surface characteristic parameter; radiation fluxes; observation data; land-atmosphere interaction; WRF-Hydro model; runoff; precipitation; three river source region; surface fluxes; HYSPLIT_v4 model; water vapor transport; singular value decomposition; glacier modeling; mass balance; full-Stokes model; ET; Qinghai Province; driving factors; elevation-dependency; i-PFASs; China; river; lake; the Tibetan Plateau; n/a
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As the most prominent and complicated terrain on the globe, the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is often called the "Roof of the World", "Third Pole" or "Asian Water Tower". The energy and water cycles in the Third Pole have great impacts on the atmospheric circulation, Asian mons...