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

• 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; Geography; surface sensible heating; Tibetan Plateau; teleconnection wave trains; dominant modes; interannual and interdecadal variations; land-atmosphere interaction; evapotranspiration; soil moisture; temperature; climate transition areas; ICESat-1; ICESat-2; glacier elevation change; inter-annual and intra-annual changes; elevation-aspect bin analysis method; HMA; Qaidam Basin; lake expansion; groundwater contribution; oxygen and hydrogen isotopes; climate change; Ngoring Lake; saline lake; lake temperature; CLM4-LISSS; salinity parameterizations; Loess Plateau; farmland ecosystem; physiological and ecological factors; Bowen ratio; actual evapotranspiration; complementary relationship; permafrost; seasonally frozen ground; Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; remote sensing; afternoon and nighttime precipitation; source region of three rivers; typical climatic zones; precipitation-use efficiency; net primary productivity; contribution of environmental factors; transformation characteristics; Sichuan Basin; steep slope; precipitation; cloud; diurnal variation; ERA-5 reanalysis data; surface energy; land-atmospheric interaction; different underlying surfaces; land surface snow phenology; statistical downscaling; terrain; climate; southern Gansu Plateau; raindrop size distribution (DSD); seasonal variation; maritime-like; South Asian summer monsoon; land-atmosphere heat transfer; inhomogeneity; Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau; snow disaster; risk assessment; WRF; glacier; albedo; radiation; optical turbulence; Asian summer monsoon anticyclone; upper troposphere-lower stratosphere; heavy precipitation; GPM; dual frequency spaceborne radar; vertical structure; microphysical characteristic; soil thermal diffusivity; conduction-convection method; soil temperature; soil water content; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); air temperature; reanalysis dataset; alpine region; applicability; Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6); LAI; LAI trend; SAR; retrieval algorithm; high spatial resolution; precipitable water vapor; clear sky; millimeter telescope; Ali; Muztag-Ata; BTA; n/a
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This reprint is focused on recent advances in land-atmosphere interactions and their effects on climate change over the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding regions using multisource remote sensing data and in situ measurements. Retrieval of land surface variables and surface heat fluxes as well as change monitoring in snow, glaciers, lakes, and other land-surface covers are of particular interest. Special attention is given to the retrieval of land-surface key properties, variations in land-surface heat fluxes, estimation of precipitation and evapotranspiration, change monitoring of glacier and lakes, the responses of lakes to climate change, carbon, water and heat exchange in terrestrial ecosystems, risk assessment of snow disasters, estimation of turbulence characteristics, and vegetation dynamics and its response to weather and climate. This reprint was funded by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (Grant No. 2019QZKK0103); National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42230610, 91837208, 41875031).