Global climate effects of summer Tibetan Plateau

• 来源期刊: 科学通报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（1）
• 页码范围: 1-3
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Because the Tibetan Plateau (TP) has the highest elevation in the world and is a key area affecting the Asian extreme weather and climate events,studies on the Tibetan Plateau meteorology have been highly concerned by the international scientific community.In the late 1970s,Ye and Gao [1] reveled the climatic characteristics of the TP heating and its connection with global and regional atmospheric circulations.With the seasonal evolution from winter to summer,strong surface sensible heat regulates the timing of the establishment of the Asian summer monsoon [2].However,Boos and Kuang [3] addressed that the large-scale South Asian summer monsoon is unaffected by removal of the plateau,provided that the narrow orography of the Himalayas and adjacent mountain ranges is preserved,and revealed the dominance of the uplift of the Himalayas in the formation of the present South Asian summer monsoon.Then,does this indicate a weak effect of the summer TP thermal forcing on the variability of the present South Asian monsoon and larger-scale climates? Some discussions have been also stimulated in Science [4].