Researchers affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin have developed a strategy that more accurately predicts seasonal rainfall over the Asian monsoon region and could provide tangible improvements to water resource ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 16, 2020
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Land–atmosphere interactions play a crucial role in shaping Earth's climate system, profoundly influencing weather patterns, climate variables, and ecological processes. Despite being located at similar latitudes, the Tibetan ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 6, 2024
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The rise of the Tibetan plateau—the largest topographic anomaly above sea level on Earth—is important for both its profound effect on climate and its reflection of continental dynamics. In this study published in GSA ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 29, 2014
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Rising temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns have led to profound exacerbation of drought conditions in arid and semi-arid ecosystems, influencing regional environments, water resources, and agriculture. In recent ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2023
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The water cycle over the Tibetan Plateau (TP), known as the "Asian Water Tower", is vital to the regional and downstream climate and ecosystem. A new study found that the interannual variability of the summer precipitation ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 25, 2021
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Caragana korshinskii (C. korshinskii) is a dominant shrub species in arid desert regions and has been widely introduced to the Loess Plateau owing to its strong sand-fixing and soil and water conservation functioning.
Plants & Animals
Apr 13, 2022
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Researchers have recognized one to seven species of goral gorals (Naemorhedus spp., Caprinae, Bovidae), small goat antelopes. However, the phylogenetics remains unclear because of limited genetic data.
Plants & Animals
Jun 24, 2020
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The uplift of the Tibet Plateau is considered to be the main driving force behind the evolution of the Asian monsoon-arid climate as well as biodiversity in the region. Surface elevation is the intuitive expression of tectonic ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 8, 2022
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Clouds have for decades been a bugbear for remote sensing of land surface temperature—one of the most important earth system metrics, used in everything from tracking climate change to predicting wildfires. A new approach ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 6, 2024
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The Tibetan Plateau, known as the "third pole" of the world, contains abundant and diverse wetlands. These wetlands provide a number of important ecological services, some of which are regulated by several nitrogen (N) and ...
Plants & Animals
May 18, 2020
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