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Response of inland lake dynamics over the Tibetan Plateau to climate change

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  • Yanbin Lei
  • Kun Yang
  • Bin Wang
  • Yongwei Sheng
  • Broxton Bird
  • Guoqing Zhang
  • Lide Tian

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The water balance of inland lakes on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) involves complex hydrological processes; their dynamics over recent decades is a good indicator of changes in water cycle under rapid global warming. Based on satellite images and extensive field investigations, we demonstrate that a coherent lake growth on the TP interior (TPI) has occurred since the late 1990s in response to a significant global climate change. Closed lakes on the TPI varied heterogeneously during 1976–1999, but expanded coherently and significantly in both lake area and water depth during 1999–2010. Although the decreased potential evaporation and glacier mass loss may contribute to the lake growth since the late 1990s, the significant water surplus is mainly attributed to increased regional precipitation, which, in turn, may be related to changes in large-scale atmospheric circulation, including the intensified Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon (NHSM) circulation and the poleward shift of the Eastern Asian westerlies jet stream. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

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  • Yanbin Lei & Kun Yang & Bin Wang & Yongwei Sheng & Broxton Bird & Guoqing Zhang & Lide Tian, 2014. "Response of inland lake dynamics over the Tibetan Plateau to climate change," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 125(2), pages 281-290, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:climat:v:125:y:2014:i:2:p:281-290
    DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1175-3
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