Domino effect of a natural cascade alpine lake system on the Third Pole

• Published in: PNAS Nexus
• Main Authors: Wang, Lei, Liu, Hu, Zhong, Xiaoyang, Zhou, Jing, Zhu, Liping, Yao, Tandong, Xie, Changwei, Ju, Jianting, Chen, Deliang, Yang, Kun, Zhao, Lin, Lu, Shanlong, Khanal, Sonu, Jin, Jiming, Liu, Wenhui, Liu, Baokang, Du, Yu'e, Yao, Xiaojun, Lei, Yanbin, Zhang, Guoqing, Nepal, Santosh
• Other Authors: Nelson, Karen E, STEP, National Natural Science Foundation of China
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2022
• Subjects: Alpine Lake; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac053; https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac053/43711752/pgac053.pdf; https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article-pdf/1/3/pgac053/48939058/pgac053.pdf

Abstract Third Pole natural cascade alpine lakes (NCALs) are exceptionally sensitive to climate change, yet the underlying cryosphere-hydrological processes and associated societal impacts are largely unknown. Here, with a state-of-the-art cryosphere-hydrology-lake-dam model, we quantified the notab...