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Study on the atmospheric heat engine efficiency and heat source characteristics of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in summer
There are many types of atmospheric heat engines in land-air systems. The accurate definition, calculation and interpretation of the efficiency of atmospheric heat engines are key to understanding energy trans...
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Impact of the leading atmospheric wave train over Eurasia on the climate variability over the Tibetan Plateau during early spring
The great potentials of unique spatiotemporal characteristics of springtime precipitation and surface air temperature over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) act as a new source of predictability to improve the climate ...
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Changes of Extreme Precipitation and its Associated Mechanisms in Northwest China
Characterized by scarce water resources and fragile ecosystems, Northwest China (NWC) has experienced a climate shift from warm-dry to warm-wet conditions since the 1980s that has garnered extensive concern in...
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Recovery of sensible heating and its elevation amplification over and around the Tibetan Plateau since 2000s
Based on historical observations daily data for 1981–2016 from 130 meteorological stations over and around the Tibetan Plateau (TP), the trends of sensible heat flux (SH) and their elevation dependence were in...
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Parameter Sensitivities of the Community Land Model at Two Alpine Sites in the Three-River Source Region
The three-river source region plays an important role on China’s ecological security and Asia’s water supply. Historically, the region has experienced severe ecological degradation due to climate change and hu...
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Estimation of the surface heat transfer coefficient over the east-central Tibetan Plateau using satellite remote sensing and field observation data
The bulk transfer method is commonly used to calculate the surface sensible heat (SSH) flux in climatology and in the numerical model, but in the calculation, the value of the bulk transfer coefficient for heat (
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Assessment of reanalysis flux products based on eddy covariance observations over the Tibetan Plateau
Surface sensible heat flux (SH) and latent heat flux (LH) are important variables linking the energy and hydrological cycles over the Tibetan Plateau (TP). Through comparison with eddy covariance observations of ...
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The spatial heterogeneity of land surface conditions and its influence on surface fluxes over a typical underlying surface in the Tibetan Plateau
Accurately estimating the surface fluxes of over the heterogeneous land surface in Tibetan Plateau will be helpful to advance the understanding of its influence on regional climate and hydrology. This paper pr...
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Impact of the snow cover scheme on snow distribution and energy budget modeling over the Tibetan Plateau
This paper presents the impact of two snow cover schemes (NY07 and SL12) in the Community Land Model version 4.5 (CLM4.5) on the snow distribution and surface energy budget over the Tibetan Plateau. The simula...
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An analysis on the influence of spatial scales on sensible heat fluxes in the north Tibetan Plateau based on Eddy covariance and large aperture scintillometer data
The influence of spatial scales on surface fluxes is an interesting but not fully investigated question. This paper presents an analysis on the influence of spatial scales on surface fluxes in the north Tibeta...
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Air temperature estimation with MODIS data over the Northern Tibetan Plateau
Time series of MODIS land surface temperature (T s) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) products, combined with digital elevation model (DEM) and meteorological data ...
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Open AccessMonitoring and Modeling the Tibetan Plateau’s climate system and its impact on East Asia
The Tibetan Plateau is an important water source in Asia. As the “Third Pole” of the Earth, the Tibetan Plateau has significant dynamic and thermal effects on East Asian climate patterns, the Asian monsoon pro...
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Open AccessA 3-year dataset of sensible and latent heat fluxes from the Tibetan Plateau, derived using eddy covariance measurements
The Tibetan Plateau (TP) has become a focus of strong scientific interest due to its role in the global water cycle and its reaction to climate change. Regional flux estimates of sensible and latent heat are i...
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Offline experiment of land surface processes in Qinghai-Xizang Plateau
The observational data of Beiluhe test of the Qinghai-Xizang railway in June 2002 are used as forcing field of the surface model to study the simulation performance in Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. The simulation re...
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Cooling effect of ballast revetment on the roadbed of Qinghai-Tibetan Railway
The data obtained through the roadbed surface thermal regime experiment (ROBSTREX), which was carried out at Beiluhe test section of Qinghai-Tibetan Railway from October to December in 2002, were used to estim...