Sentences with phrase «tibetan plateau»

Glaciers in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan plateau, from which 40 % of the world derives its fresh water, are retreating fast, said Yao Tandong, a researcher with the Chinese academy of sciences.

The glaciers, Asia's main watershed, feed ten rivers and are the source of water for 47 % of the world's population, and are dependent on water rising in the Tibetan plateau.

[Jim Dukelow reminded me a few notable caveates: the satellites provide no data at all above 80 - 85 N and S, and is unerliable for high altitudes and for snow / ice covered areas (Northern Greenland, Central Antarctica, and the Tibetan plateau).

Nowhere is the melting more alarming than in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan plateau where the ice melt from glaciers sustains not only the dry - season flow of the Indus, Ganges, Yangtze, and Yellow rivers but also the irrigation systems that depend on them.

Applying the same logic, any of the 20th Century History runs which exhibited similar abrupt shifts (Southern Ocean sea - ice, Tibetan plateau snow melt and N Atlantic convection) which were not observed in the realworld, should have also been excluded from the ensemble mean for Marvel et al to have any hope of credibly extending inferences to realworld observational data — even if we suspend disbelief with respect to other problems associated with data, methods and relevance.

Foxtail and proso millet used to be cultivated on the Tibetan plateau 4,000 years ago when it was warmer, but as the climate got colder, they were abandoned for colder weather crops.

Warming across the Himalaya - Hindu Kush region has been 0.74 °C higher than the global average over the past 100 years, with warming on the Tibetan plateau being particularly pronounced, 1.35 °C higher than the global average.

It is also not surprising that the Tibetan plateau specific humidity at this pressure level is considerably higher than the zonal mean (3.5 - 4 times larger during the summer).

I think they were the ones who first proposed the uplift of the Tibetan plateau as the cause of the reduction of CO2 to current levels.

Trying to figure out the increasing frequency of heavy precipitation over western Himalayas, the scientists said their analysis suggested that pronounced warming over the Tibetan plateau in recent decades due to elevation dependency of climatic warming signal favoured enhancement of meridianal temperature gradients.

The Hindu - Kush Himalayan region, including the Tibetan plateau, also functions as a complex interaction of «atmospheric, cryospheric, hydrological, geological and environmental processes that bear special significance for the Earth's biodiversity, climate and water cycles» (48).

Of these, the disappearance of glaciers in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan plateau threatens to shrink food supplies most sharply.

The actual surface protrudes above this level in places, especially the Tibetan plateau, and in those areas we use the near - surface wind instead, to avoid having to mark the data as missing in the animation.

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(Camera trap photo of a snow leopard on the Tibetan plateau (photo: Panthera)-RRB-

Sci Dev Net: China has agreed to share scientific knowledge with Nepal on the effects of climate and environmental changes on the Tibetan plateau in order to spur sustainable development.

Apart from Xinjiang, most of these glaciers are situated on the Tibetan plateau.

There is a theory that the rising of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau provided the barrier that made the South Asian monsoons possible, and a secondary theory that the increased rainfall on the freshly raised mountain slopes weathered so much rock that the planet's levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide took a dive, to precipitate 30 million years of Ice Ages.

An even worse example of this is the Chinese deciding to rely more and more on coal despite the probably - horrific consequences of losing the Tibetan plateau glaciers, although in that case they can probably be confident that it will be at least a generation before things start getting bad (and of course the Chinese plants are only part of the problem).

The Chinese Academy of Sciences — the country's top scientific body — has announced that the glaciers of the Tibetan plateau are vanishing so fast that they will be reduced by 50 per cent every decade.

They are fascinated by the science, asking questions about the climate history of the Tibetan plateau and the chances of reaching environmental tipping points, as well as questions about western environmental thought and policy.

Applying the same logic, any of the 20th Century History runs which exhibited similar abrupt shifts (Southern Ocean sea - ice, Tibetan plateau snow melt and N Atlantic convection) which were not observed in the real - world, should have also been excluded from the ensemble mean for Marvel et al to have any hope of credibly extending inferences to real - world observational data — even if we suspend disbelief with respect to other problems associated with data, methods and relevance.

The train to Tibet leads you through the beautiful highlands of the Tibetan plateau.

To the skeptics who claim drinking butter isn't good for the body, Tsehua points to the type of butter consumed on the Tibetan plateau.

Matthias Kuhle's geological theory of Ice Age development was suggested by the possible existence of an ice sheet covering the Tibetan plateau during the Ice Ages.

The modern populations of these valleys, who share cultural and linguistic affinities with peoples found today on the Tibetan plateau, were commonly assumed to be the descendants of the earliest inhabitants of the Himalayan arc.

The team of researchers analyzed deposits of wind - blown dust called red clay that accumulated between six million and two and a half million years ago in north central China, adjacent to the Tibetan plateau, and used them to reconstruct changing monsoon precipitation and temperature.

By reconstructing their evolutionary history over the past 2 million years, including major climatic glacier movements, geology (uplifting of the Tibetan plateau) and retreats likely drove population isolation and demography.

In one species, the black snub - nosed monkey (about 2,000 individuals are found in the wild), they identified several hypoxia - related genes that allowed them to thrive in the highest altitudes (a narrow region 3,400 - 4,500 meters above sea level in a narrow region between the Yangtze and Mekong rivers within the Tibetan plateau) than any other nonhuman primate.

New data about habitat temperature and panda distribution, collected across six mountains along the Chinese edge of the Tibetan plateau, confirm what climate models have been suggesting for a while: the animal is struggling to survive as its natural habitat gets hotter.

North of the Yangtze they did come from the Tibetan plateau; south of the Yangtze the Chinese out of Africa came along the coastal route along India and South East Asia, and they never were north of the Himalayas.

Toxic chemicals are accumulating in the ecosystems of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau, researchers warn in the first comprehensive study to assess levels of certain organic pollutants in that part of the world.

From remote observatories on the Tibetan plateau to a cave in a Shanghai suburb, Chinese researchers are poised to conduct an audacious once - in - a-century experiment.

They found that POPs in the western Tibetan plateau were transported by the westerly winds from Europe and Africa, whereas those in the southern and southeastern regions were brought by the Indian monsoon from South Asia.

At the fourth Third Pole Environment Workshop, held on 1 — 3 April in Dehradun, India, Xu reported that ice cores from across the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau are rife with those toxic compounds.

Tseng and his colleagues have uncovered a partial skull, a jawbone and a few teeth belonging to a species of big cat in the Zanda basin in the south - west Tibetan plateau, dated to 5.95 to 4.10 million years ago (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2013.2686).

More alarmingly, the researchers also detected large amounts of POPs in various components of the ecosystems such as soil, grass, trees and fish in the Himalayas and in the Tibetan plateau, especially at the highest elevations.

The ground tit (Parus humilis), lives in the Tibetan plateau, the largest high - altitude land mass in the world.

Unlike its tree - dwelling relatives, the drab - coloured little songbird lives exclusively above the tree line at 3,300 to 5,400 m, on rocky steppes and grasslands of the Tibetan plateau.

Findings of the study gave been published in a paper entitled «Ground tit genome reveals avian adaptation to living at high altitudes in the Tibetan plateau» in the journal Nature Communications.

► Ornithologist Xin Lu, who has spent much of his research career conducting fieldwork on the Tibetan plateau, describes the emotional and spiritual rewards his work provides in this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life story.

ITS vast ice sheets and monsoon run - off make the Tibetan plateau one of the largest sources of fresh water on an increasingly thirsty planet.

The tundra experiment has been ongoing in some locations for more than 16 years but will be expanded throughout the world — even away from the poles to tundra in mountainous Australia and the Tibetan plateau.

(Im) permafrost According to a 2007 global outlook from the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), the frozen soil of the Tibetan plateau has warmed about 0.3 degree Celsius over the past 30 years — after the poles, faster than anywhere else on the planet.

The biggest rivers draining Asia originate in the Tibetan plateau on Chinese territory; India has recently attacked China for not giving it enough warning about flood dangers.

Not exact matches

That picture of the river and the Tibetan Plateau, which involves the river incising deeply into the plateau millions of years ago, differs quite a bit from the typically accepted geologic vision.

But other genetic data suggests that at least one high - elevation gene appeared in Tibetans only between 2750 and 5500 years ago — more in line with the appearance of high - elevation agriculture on the plateau.

In Tibetans, the ADH7 gene variant is associated with higher weight and BMI scores, which could help the body store energy during particularly lean times on the hardscrabble plateau.

Maureen Raymo, William Ruddiman and others propose that the Tibetan and Colorado Plateaus are immense CO2 «scrubbers» with a capacity to remove enough CO2 from the global atmosphere to be a significant causal factor of the 40 million year Cenozoic Cooling trend.