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

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Geography; Research & information: general; actual evapotranspiration; afternoon and nighttime precipitation; air temperature; albedo; Ali; alpine region; applicability; Asian summer monsoon anticyclone; Bowen ratio; BTA; clear sky; climate; climate change; climate transition areas; CLM4-LISSS; cloud; complementary relationship; conduction-convection method; contribution of environmental factors; Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6); different underlying surfaces; diurnal variation; dominant modes; dual frequency spaceborne radar; elevation-aspect bin analysis method; ERA-5 reanalysis data; evapotranspiration; farmland ecosystem; glacier; glacier elevation change; GPM; groundwater contribution; heavy precipitation; high spatial resolution; HMA; ICESat-1; ICESat-2; inhomogeneity; inter-annual and intra-annual changes; interannual and interdecadal variations; LAI; LAI trend; lake expansion; lake temperature; land surface snow phenology; land-atmosphere heat transfer; land-atmosphere interaction; land-atmospheric interaction; Loess Plateau; maritime-like; microphysical characteristic; millimeter telescope; Muztag-Ata; n/a; net primary productivity; Ngoring Lake; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); optical turbulence; oxygen and hydrogen isotopes; permafrost; physiological and ecological factors; precipitable water vapor; precipitation; precipitation-use efficiency; Qaidam Basin; Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau; radiation; raindrop size distribution (DSD); reanalysis dataset; remote sensing; retrieval algorithm; risk assessment; saline lake; salinity parameterizations; SAR; seasonal variation; seasonally frozen ground; Sichuan Basin; snow disaster; soil moisture; soil temperature; soil thermal diffusivity; soil water content; source region of three rivers; South Asian summer monsoon; southern Gansu Plateau; statistical downscaling; steep slope; surface energy; surface sensible heating; teleconnection wave trains; temperature; terrain; Tibetan Plateau; transformation characteristics; typical climatic zones; upper troposphere-lower stratosphere; vertical structure; WRF
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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).