ENVIRONMENTAL AND LAND SURFACE PROCESSES STUDY ON THE TIBETAN PLATEAU-A TEN YEAR PLAN
Yao Tandong (1)
(1) Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Tibetan Plateau is often called the gThird Poleh Because of its significance parallel with Antarctica and the Arctic. As a unique geological and geographical unit, the Tibetan Plateau dramatically impacts the worldfs environment and especially controls climatic and environmental changes in Asia or even in the Northern Hemisphere. Tibetan Plateau, therefore, provides a field laboratory for studying global change. The Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is establishing a Field Monitoring and Research Platform (FMRP) on the Tibetan Plateau.
The goal of the FMRP consists of three parts: environment, ecology and geodynamics. The goal of environment of the FMRP is to study the characteristics of the Plateaufs climate and its interactions with global change; to determine the effects of global warming on the glaciers, lakes, and frozen soils and other processes on the Tibetan Plateau, and the ways these changes feedback to global climate change; to understand the roles of glaciers, lakes, rainfall, and soil moisture with respect to greenhouse gasses and aerosols; to establish relationships between modern climate and physical, chemical, and biological proxies by using remote sensing data and the high resolution records; to reveal (eventually model) the processes and mechanisms in the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the biosphere and the lithosphere, especially the interface processes between cryosphere and atmosphere, and between hydrosphere and atmosphere.
On a long-term time scale (10 years), the FMRP is to be combined with the construction of the CAS station network and integrated with the construction of national stations, and coordinated with international monitoring program. The FMRP is intended to cooperate internationally with all monitoring and research programs on the Tibetan Plateau.
On a Short-term time scale (3-5years), the FMRP will be promoted by the CAS Knowledge Innovation Project. The FMRP is internationally linked with CEOP and DFG. The observations including atmosphere, cryosphere (especially glaciers and snow cover) and other land surface process (especially lakes and river discharge). Three integrated all-the-year-round monitoring and research stations including Namcuo, Linzhi and Qomolangma will be established in addition to temporary stations on the whole Tibetan Plateau during this period.
In situ and remote-sensing methods are essential for the FMRP on the Tibetan Plateau. The FMRP is to create a comprehensive, reliable and continuous data bank, which will produce long-term, high-quality, high-resolution (both in time and space) and homogeneous data set.
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Yao Tandong
15-Oct-04-17:42:46
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Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research(ITP), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)
Theme 6
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3 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, P. R. China