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  • GRL: Spring hydroclimate reconstruction on the south-c...
  • Gondwana Research: N-S extent of Greater India limited...
  • Journal of Biogeography: Biological factors slow down ...
  • ESSD: Integrated Hydrometeorological - snow - frozen G...
  • [05.01] GEOLOGY: The role of the westerlies and orogra...
  • [04.27] RPP: A major environmental shift by the middle...
  • [04.22] EM: Distinct assembly mechanisms underlie simi...
  • [03.26] GRL: Obvious lateral variations of shear-wave ...
  • [03.17] Science Advances: Scientists work toward more ...
  • GRL: El Nino decaying pace matters to East Asian-weste...
  • JAMES: Scientists reveal how model drift affect ENSO p...
Science Advances: Annual Water Evaporation of “Asian Water Tower” ...
      The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is considered as the “Asian Water Tower”. A research team led by Prof. Yaoming Ma has proposed a reliable lake evaporation estimation method based on meteorological and satellite data. They found that the annual water evaporation of the lakes on Tibetan Plateau was 51.7 billion tons. The proposed method can accurately estimate water evaporation amounts of large lakes, providing a reference data for precisely evaluating the lakes’ water resources reserves of Asian Water Tower.
Science Advances: Scientists work toward more reliable prediction of S...
      A new study identifies the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) as one of the key internal variability modes that reduce the uncertainties and improve projections of the South Asian summer monsoon (SASM). A 100-member ensemble of simulations and a 50-member ensemble of simulations were used to quantify the uncertainty caused by internal variability in the near-future projection of SASM rainfall. It was found that internal variability can eclipse the externally forced SASM rainfall change, leading to very different rainfall trends for next 15-30 years.
Nature Communications: Asian dust-storm activity dominated by Chinese ...
      The Chinese scientists recently presented a 2250-year reconstruction of dust storm intensity dating back to the first unified dynasty of China. This record was derived from an alpine lake core from the Chinese Loess Plateau. The results show that sharp increases in dust storm activity coincided with unified dynasties with large populations during strong AM periods. It implies that beginning at least 2000 years ago, human activities have started to overtake natural climatic variability as the dominant controls of dust storm activity in eastern China.
The Xiahe Denisovans Research: one of 2019 Top 12 Science News in CAS
      The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently delivered publically the Highlights of 2019 Top 12 Science News in CAS. The Xiahe Denisovans Research ‘Discovery of Earliest Archaeological Site on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau’ by a team led by CAS Academician Prof. Fahu Chen, the director and chief scientist of CETES, was selected as one of the top 12 science news. Dating of a Denisovan mandible found in northeastern Tibetan Plateau provides direct evidence of Denisovans outside the Altai Mountains 160,000 years ago and key implications for the origin of Tibe...
Science Advances: Eastward shift of ENSO heat engine under global warm...
      El Ni?o-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the strongest signal in interannual climate variation, which acts like heat engine to drive variations of the global climate system. A new mechanism was recently proposed to understand the eastward shift and extension of ENSO-induced precipitation anomalies under global warming. It revealed that the weakened easterly trade wind over the tropical Pacific would cause the narrowing of the meridional span of ENSO. Tighter ENSO leads to the eastward shift and extension of the precipitation anomalies, even if ENSO intensi...

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  • [02-27] XINHUANET: Human activities dominating factor for Asian dust storm 2,000 years ago: resear...
  • [01-19] The Xiahe Denisovans Research elected as one of Top 12 Science News in CAS
  • [12-20] Denisovans: PEOPLE’S CHOICE for the breakthrough of the year 2019 by Science
  • [05-06] Nature: The Tibetan Plateau was first occupied by Middle Pleistocene Denisovans
  • [11-29] The Basic Science Center for the Tibetan Plateau Earth System Study approved by NSFC
  • [01-23] The Director of CETES Prof. CHEN Fahu Elected as the Chairman of the 12th Governing Board ...
  • [01-23] The research on the mechanism for alpine treeline formation was selected as “Science Bul...
  • [04-20] Advance glacier mass balance modeling in the Third Pole
  • [11-03] New Dataset Released: Surface Energy Balance Based Global Land Evapotranspiration
  • [10-26] Session on Tibetan Plateau and Climate Change Successfully Held at CGU 2016
  • [10-19] Two Ice Avalanches in Western Tibet May Imply More Risks