Land-air coupling over the Tibetan Plateau and its climate impacts

• 来源期刊: 国家科学评论（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（3）
• 页码范围: 485
• 页数: 1页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaa012

摘要

The mechanical and thermal effects of the gigantic Tibetan Plateau (TP),together with its unique in situ land-air coupling and troposphere-stratosphere interaction,play an important role in the atmospheric general circulation,regional weather and climate,variability of the Asian summer monsoon and the global atmospheric energy and water cycle.As evidenced by the striking warming trend,the climate and atmospheric energy budget over the TP has changed more significantly than that averaged over the rest of the globe in the past three decades.The climate impact of the TP has therefore become a scientific frontier in global climate-change studies.However,due to scarce observations,bias in circulation models and lack of physical understanding,our knowledge of energy and water exchanges over the TP and their climate impacts is still limited.