Staying on Top of the Roof of the World
/PRNewswire/ -- As the highest region on Earth, the Tibetan Plateau engenders the most intriguing myths of earth system science, provides the most water...
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/PRNewswire/ -- As the highest region on Earth, the Tibetan Plateau engenders the most intriguing myths of earth system science, provides the most water...
The Third Pole, which is centered on the Tibetan Plateau, stores most of the frozen water in the world after the Antarctic and Arctic.
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The Third Pole stretches from Afghanistan in the west to China in the east, covering over 5 million square kilometres. The Pamir-Hindu Kush, Himalayan, Hengduan, Tienshan, and Qilian mountain ranges are all part of it.
Credit: TPE The Third Pole centered on the Tibetan Plateau is home to headwaters of over 10 major Asian rivers. These glacier-based water systems, also known as the Asian Water Towers, will have to struggle to quench the thirst of downstream communities despite more river runoff brought on by a warmer climate, according to a recent study published in Nature Climate Change. By constraining earth system models for precipitation projections, together with estimated glacier melt contributions, the study quantified the wet-season runoff of seven rivers at the Third Pole, and found it would increa...