Posted on 08/28/2023 4:28:25 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Located at the intersection of South, Central, and East Asia, the massive Tibetan Plateau is often considered to be Earth's "third pole." A land of large glaciers, permafrost, and heavy snow, the plateau feeds a vast network of rivers, including major waterways like the Ganges, Indus, Mekong, Yangtze, and Yellow. These rivers, which together make up Asia's "water tower," provide water to nearly 40% of the world's population.
The Tibetan Plateau also plays a substantial role in the global climate system by affecting atmospheric circulation and driving weather patterns, such as the Asian summer monsoon, around the planet. And in turn, climate crucially influences the plateau. A projected warmer and wetter climate will affect the region's glaciers, snow cover, permafrost, runoff, and vegetation, affecting ecosystems locally and globally.
Jianping Huang and colleagues have reviewed the latest research investigating the Tibetan Plateau's role in and susceptibility to the changing climate. Although inquiry into the plateau's influence on climate dates to the 1880s, recent advances in observational data and numerical modeling are offering new insights.
The researchers divide their review into six thematic sections, covering observations of land-atmosphere interactions, climate system changes over the Tibetan Plateau, the plateau's effects on atmospheric species transport, thermal and dynamical forcing of the plateau, its modulation of the global climate, and potential future changes in the plateau's climate and forcings. For example, they discuss research demonstrating how the plateau drives surface pollutants into the upper troposphere during the Asian summer monsoon. They also outline how the plateau couples with the monsoon to influence global climate patterns in the summer, whereas in the winter, it drives the climate through its effects on planetary Rossby waves.
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Lessee: How long until leftists start parroting “3rd pole” in climate alarmist propaganda?
I’m sure the paper was funded by the CCP.
To misquote Groucho: Whatever it is, they’ll exploit it.
Your comment is abominable.
OMG...introducing another new term.....like Polar Vortex, Heat Dome. We’re not stupid....WE do not control the climate...never have...never will...
Exactly
He’ll say “Are you married?”
Polar Vortex, that’s so mid 1800’s
Trump is a Yeti? /lol
Poles like Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz.
Not nearly as much as our failure to switch to all green energy! And the lingering effects of slavery and the systemic racism in American society.
All being exacerbated by Trump’s criminality, of course. He’s like the Penguin or the Joker!/sarc
That would be Rodney Gitmo. The Earth’s third pole.
Yak farts!
A long time ago I read that women were having poles installed at home and learning pole dancing to try to make their husbands happy.
May have had a role in global warming.
POLAR VORTEX: a state of thinking that is in a constant state of bizarre flux fixated on the belief that humans have control over climate and weather. much like the flea controlling the elephant.
Didn’t see your post. RE my #16.
later
In particular, the jet stream is a bistable system interacting with the Tibetan Plateau. Part of the year it flows south of the Himalayas and the rest of the year it flows north of them, which turns the monsoons of India on and off.
If the jet stream migrates north, it will become monostable, drastically changing the climate for a couple billion Indians and others living along the north coast of the Indian Ocean.
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