Contrasting runoff trends between dry and wet parts of eastern Tibetan Plateau

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Yuanyuan Wang, Yongqiang Zhang, Francis H. S. Chiew, Tim R. McVicar, Lu Zhang, Hongxia Li, Guanghua Qin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Tower The; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15678-x; https://doaj.org/article/91f9a799961d48e0a6d9586e67ef0551

Abstract As the “Asian Water Tower”, the Tibetan Plateau (TP) provides water resources for more than 1.4 billion people, but suffers from climatic and environmental changes, followed by the changes in water balance components. We used state-of-the-art satellite-based products to estimate spatial and...