Palaeoclimate simulation of 21 ka for the Tibetan Plateau and Eastern Asia

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 575-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liu J. ◽  
Yu G. ◽  
Chen X.
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Eastern Asia

scholarly journals Orographic evolution of northern Tibet shaped vegetation and plant diversity in eastern Asia

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. eabc7741
Author(s):  
Shu-Feng Li ◽  
Paul J. Valdes ◽  
Alex Farnsworth ◽  
T. Davies-Barnard ◽  
Tao Su ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
The Past ◽  
Northeastern Tibet ◽  
Monsoon System ◽  
Precipitation Increase ◽  
Fossil Data

The growth of the Tibetan Plateau throughout the past 66 million years has profoundly affected the Asian climate, but how this unparalleled orogenesis might have driven vegetation and plant diversity changes in eastern Asia is poorly understood. We approach this question by integrating modeling results and fossil data. We show that growth of north and northeastern Tibet affects vegetation and, crucially, plant diversity in eastern Asia by altering the monsoon system. This northern Tibetan orographic change induces a precipitation increase, especially in the dry (winter) season, resulting in a transition from deciduous broadleaf vegetation to evergreen broadleaf vegetation and plant diversity increases across southeastern Asia. Further quantifying the complexity of Tibetan orographic change is critical for understanding the finer details of Asian vegetation and plant diversity evolution.

scholarly journals Modulation of the Tibetan Plateau Snow Cover on the ENSO Teleconnections: From the East Asian Summer Monsoon Perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 2481-2489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiwei Wu ◽  
Jianping Li ◽  
Zhihong Jiang ◽  
Tingting Ma
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Snow Cover ◽  
East Asian Summer Monsoon ◽  
Asian Summer Monsoon ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
Enso Teleconnections ◽  
Asian Summer ◽  
Tibetan Plateau Snow Cover

Abstract The East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) may exhibit rather large variability between years characterized by the same ENSO phase. Such inconsistency reduces the EASM predictability based on ENSO. Results in this study show that the Tibetan Plateau snow cover (TPSC) exerts a modulating effect on ENSO teleconnections and ENSO significantly correlates with the EASM only during the reduced TPSC summers. Three-dimensional circulation structures are examined to manifest that the typical ENSO signals in reduced TPSC summers tend to be stronger than in excessive TPSC summers. Numerical and theoretical evidences indicate that the anomalously reduced TPSC can force positive geopotential height anomalies at the upper troposphere and weaken the jet streams across eastern Asia and northwestern Pacific. Governed by such basic state zonal flows, the extratropical Rossby wave response to the ENSO forcing usually has a larger amplitude and pronounced westward development. In such case, ENSO extends its influences to eastern Asia and enhances its connection with the EASM.

Warming patterns over the Tibetan Plateau and adjacent lowlands derived from elevation- and bias‑corrected ERA-Interim data

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Gerlitz ◽  
O Conrad ◽  
A Thomas ◽  
J Böhner
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau
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