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The significant climate warming in the northern Tibetan Plateau and its possible causes

✍ Scribed by Donglin Guo; Huijun Wang

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
259 KB
Volume
32
Category
Article
ISSN
0899-8418

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We have identified the northern Tibetan Plateau as having experienced the most significant warming of any region in the entire plateau domain since 1961. Warming in the northern plateau violates the previously suggested elevation dependency of warming trends. Further analysis shows that the increase in surface air temperature in summer has played a primary role in the rapid increase of the annual mean air temperature in the northern Tibetan Plateau since the mid‐1980s. In addition, the summer air temperature is correlated with ozone in the region, a result which is statistically significant. This correlation seems to have a relationship with solar radiation and ozone depletion ratios. Further discussion shows that the most significant warming in the northern plateau may be related to radiative and dynamical heating that are results of pronounced stratospheric ozone depletion. Copyright Β© 2011 Royal Meteorological Society

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