Increasing Selin Co Lake Area in the Tibet Plateau with Its Moisture Cycle

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(5), P. 2024 - 2024

Published: Feb. 26, 2025

Lake areas across the Tibet Plateau have been taken as major indicator of water resources changes. However, drivers behind spatiotemporal variations lake over remained obscure. Selin Co is largest in Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Here, we delineate area changes during period 1988–2023 based on Landsat remote sensing data. We also delved into causes from perspectives glacier and tracing vapor sources. identified persistently increasing Lake. The reached 2462.59 km2 2023. delineated basin found a generally decreasing tendency main glaciers within basin. Specifically, loss Geladandong Glacier 17.39 total Jiagang 76.42 km2. that melting precipitation are prime area. In basin, approximately 89.12% evaporation source propagated external to by westerlies Indian monsoon. internal hydrological circulation rate 10.88%, while 30.61% moisture transportation sourced ocean, 69.39% continental land. ocean shows significant trend, which may contribute continued expansion

Language: Английский

Intensifying heatwave events affect snow phenology over the Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Hydrology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 659, P. 133293 - 133293

Published: April 16, 2025

Language: Английский