Evaluation of snow depth and snow cover over the Tibetan Plateau in global reanalyses using in situ and satellite remote sensing observations

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Orsolini, Yvan, Wegmann, Martin, Dutra, Emanuel, Liu, Boqi, Balsamo, Gianpaolo, Yang, Kun, de Rosnay, Patricia, Zhu, Congwen, Wang, Wenli, Senan, Retish, Arduini, Gabriele
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Merra; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2612179; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2221-2019

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) region, often referred to as the Third Pole, is the world's highest plateau and exerts a considerable influence on regional and global climate. The state of the snowpack over the TP is a major research focus due to its great impact on the headwaters of a dozen major Asi...