Climate change and its impact on the Third Pole and beyond

• 作者: Deliang CHEN YAO Tan-Dong
• 来源期刊: 气候变化研究进展（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（3）
• 所属期刊栏目: Special topic on climate change and its impact on the Third Pole and beyond
• 页码范围: 297-298
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

After the North and South Poles,the Third Pole is the highland core of Asia and includes the Hindu-Kush,Kar-akorum,Himalayas,Tibetan Plateau,and all the mountain ranges that surround it.This region provides water resources and ecosystem services to billions of people in Asia.It is well accepted that the region has undergone climate warming that is larger than the means of the Northern Hemisphere and other regions at similar latitudes over the last decades.This resulted in some environmental changes,having huge implications for millions of people living in the Third Pole region and down-stream areas.Understanding the mechanisms of the Earth system's multi-spheres (atmosphere,cryosphere,hydrosphere,lithosphere,biosphere,and anthroposphere) interactions in the Third Pole is becoming one of the hottest topics for global environmental research,and it is also an urgent task for the scientific community to support the sustainable development of the Third Pole region and beyond.