Recent ground thermo-hydrological changes in a Tibetan endorheic catchment and implications for lake level changes

• Main Authors: Martin, Léo C. P., Westermann, Sebastian, Magni, Michele, Brun, Fanny, Fiddes, Joel, Lei, Yanbin, Kraaijenbrink, Philip, Mathys, Tamara, Langer, Moritz, Allen, Simon, Immerzeel, Walter W.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Rapid Lake; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2022-241; https://hess.copernicus.org/preprints/hess-2022-241/

Climate change modifies the water and energy fluxes between the atmosphere and the surface in mountainous regions. This is particularly true over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP), a major headwater region of the world, which has shown substantial hydrological changes over the last decades. Among them...