Tibetan Plateau
Stress rise precursor to earthquakes in the Tibetan Plateau
... hazard and commonly result in great disasters as recently occurred in China. The 2008 Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earth- quake destroyed towns and villages along and near the seismic faults, and killed 69,227 people with 17,923 ...
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Reexamining the barrier effect of the Tibetan Plateau on the South Asian summer monsoon
... the Tibetan Plateau can affect the regional as well as global climate, either mechanically or thermodynam- ...the Tibetan Plateau acts as an ele- vated heat source for the atmosphere in summer ...
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Regional Flow in the Lower Crust and Upper Mantle under the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau
... Figure 6. Left plan showing contour of smoothed elevations of Tibetan Plateau and surrounding regions [23]. Dark gray and light gray areas indicate regions of cold, strong, continental materials and ...
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Palaeoenvironmental setting of lacustrine stromatolites in the Miocene Wudaoliang Group, northern Tibetan Plateau
... ACL values around 29.53 can be characteristic for differ- ent kinds of trees (Hoffmann et al. 2013). The Paq ratio of 0.34 can indicate for a mixture of shallow surface sed- iments with some green algae from the Qinghai ...
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Effect of plateau pika disturbance and patchiness on ecosystem carbon emissions in alpine meadow in the northeastern part of Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau
... Plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae, hereafter pikas) are small mammals endemic to the alpine grasslands of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP; Smith and Foggin, 1999; Lai and Smith, 2003). Living ...
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Early warning of snow-caused disasters in pastoral areas on the Tibetan Plateau
... 1991; Pulliainen et al., 2006; Lemke et al., 2007; Martelloni et al., 2013). In pastoral areas, a great deal of snowfall of- ten leads to grassland being buried and transportation disrup- tion, resulting in a large ...
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Variation of soil hydraulic properties with alpine grassland degradation in the eastern Tibetan Plateau
... ern Tibetan Plateau that provides important ecosystem ser- vices to the upstream and downstream regions of interna- tional rivers of Asia and other parts of the world, is under- going severe degradation, ...
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Impacts of Tibetan Plateau uplift on atmospheric dynamics and associated precipitation 18O
... Abstract. Palaeoelevation reconstructions of mountain belts have become a focus of modern science since surface ele- vation provides crucial information for understanding both geodynamic mechanisms of Earth’s interior ...
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The Spatiotemporal Distribution of Two Bacterial Indexes in a Small Tibetan Plateau Watershed
... The aims of this study were therefore to: (1) Identify the overall level of microbial contamination within the Xincang River Basin; (2) Evaluate the spatiotemporal characteristics of changes in total bacteria (TB) and ...
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The Precipitation Variations in the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau during 1961-2015
... The precipitation data from stations may be influenced by non-climate factors, causing precipitation data series inhomogeneity. We use the software package RHtestsV4 to test the homogenization of data and correct the ...
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Analysis of ice phenology of lakes on the Tibetan Plateau from MODIS data
... The Tibetan Plateau (TP) was identified as one of the most sensitive regions in the world to changes in climate (Liu and Chen, 2000). At the same time, because of its unique prop- erties, the TP has a ...
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Differences in the water balance components of four lakes in the southern central Tibetan Plateau
... Abstract. The contrasting patterns of lake-level fluctuations across the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are indicators of differences in the water balance over the TP. However, little is known about the key ...
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Precipitation measurement intercomparison in the Qilian Mountains, north-eastern Tibetan Plateau
... Precipitation intercomparison experiments (Fig. 1, Table 1) were conducted at a grassland site (99 ◦ 52.9 0 E, 38 ◦ 16.1 0 N; 2980 m) in the Hulu watershed in the Qilian Mountains, on the north-eastern edge of the ...
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Editorial: Organic carbon pools in permafrost regions on the Qinghai–Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau
... SOC decreases with the depth on the QXP (Fig. 4), which is in good agreement with those reported in circum-Arctic re- gions (Strauss et al., 2013; Zimov et al., 2006). This could be explained by the dynamics of ...
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Precipitation record since AD 1600 from ice cores on the central Tibetan Plateau
... northern Tibetan Plateau has constrained our under- standing of precipitation variations in this ...central Tibetan Plateau in 2000 to reveal the precipitation ...central Tibetan ...
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Evolution and variability of the Asian monsoon and its potential linkage with uplift of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau
... and Tibetan Plateau (HTP) and its linkage with the evolution of the Asian monsoon has been regarded as a typical example of a tectonic – climate ...central Tibetan Plateau (TP) at ...
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Analysis of soil hydraulic and thermal properties for land surface modeling over the Tibetan Plateau
... the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is claimed to be inadequate and even inaccurate for determining soil hydraulic properties (SHP) and soil thermal properties (STP), hampering the understanding of the land surface ...
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Event-based probabilistic risk assessment of livestock snow disasters in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau
... Disaster risk is a measure of uncertain consequences. The Sendai Framework outlines the importance of risk as- sessment as a critical means of understanding disaster risk and a prerequisite for other actions, e.g. ...
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Characteristics of Convective Storm Top Altitudes in Summer over the Tibetan Plateau by GPM
... the Tibetan Plateau has not yet been carried ...the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas in summer (June to August) were analyzed by using the GPM DPR_HS data from 2014 to ...
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Complex principal component analysis of mass balance changes on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau
... inner Tibetan Plateau (ITP) derived from GRACE data showed a positive rate that was at- tributable to glacier mass gain, whereas those same glaciers evaluated in other field-based studies showed an overall ...
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