Are high altitudinal regions warming faster than lower elevations on the Tibetan Plateau?

	Are high altitudinal regions warming faster than lower elevations on the Tibetan Plateau?
	Du, Mingyuan; Liu, Jingshi; Li, Yingnian; Zhang, Fawei; Zhao, Liang; Niu, Ben; He, Yongtao; Zhang, Xianzhou; Yonemura, Seiichiro; Tang, Yanhong
刊名	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GLOBAL WARMING
	2019
卷号	18
关键词	air temperature climate warming elevation latitude zone Tibetan Plateau
英文摘要	We have conducted 12-year field observations along two slopes with altitude differences about 1,200 m (3,250 m to 4,400 m and 4,280 m to 5,538 m) to examine the altitudinal dependence of climate warming in recent years. Annual mean of air temperature during 1951-2014 of 65 meteorological stations on the TP are used to analyze the relationship between elevation and climate warming. We divided the TP into three latitude zones: <30 degrees N, 30 degrees N-35 degrees N and >35 degrees N. We find that climate warming rates decreased significantly with elevation increasing in the three latitude zones. Our 12-year intensive field observations data show a similar result. Therefore, higher altitudes are likely to warm slower on the Tibetan Plateau. In addition to the latitudinal effect, it is perhaps largely contributed by the local environmental changes such as urbanization, land cove changes at lower populated elevation area, and/or the glacier and permafrost melting at high mountains.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://210.75.249.4/handle/363003/59890]
专题	西北高原生物研究所_中国科学院西北高原生物研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Du, Mingyuan,Liu, Jingshi,Li, Yingnian,et al. Are high altitudinal regions warming faster than lower elevations on the Tibetan Plateau?[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GLOBAL WARMING,2019,18.
APA	Du, Mingyuan.,Liu, Jingshi.,Li, Yingnian.,Zhang, Fawei.,Zhao, Liang.,...&Tang, Yanhong.(2019).Are high altitudinal regions warming faster than lower elevations on the Tibetan Plateau?.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GLOBAL WARMING,18.
MLA	Du, Mingyuan,et al."Are high altitudinal regions warming faster than lower elevations on the Tibetan Plateau?".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GLOBAL WARMING 18(2019).