【摘 要】
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The Tibetan plateau (TP) is often considered to be the water tower of Asia being the source of many major Asian rivers such as the Yellow River, Yangtze River, Mekong, Salween, and Brahmaputra.These r
【机 构】
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Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,China
【出 处】
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第九届CTWF(CAS-TWAS-WMO)国际研讨会
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The Tibetan plateau (TP) is often considered to be the water tower of Asia being the source of many major Asian rivers such as the Yellow River, Yangtze River, Mekong, Salween, and Brahmaputra.These rivers support hundreds of millions of people downstream.The TP is characterized by a variety of elevations (with the average of above 4000m), large area of snow mountains, glaciers, permafrost, and mountain lakes.Studies have suggested that the surface temperature on the TP has increased about 1.8 ℃ over the past 50 years, and major climate-induced changes have occurred, such as glacier melting, permafrost degradation, drying of wetlands, and lakes shrinking/extending.
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