Remote sensing of alpine lake water environment changes on the Tibetan Plateau and surroundings: A review

C Song, B Huang, L Ke, KS Richards - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry …, 2014 - Elsevier
Alpine lakes on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are key indicators of climate change and climate
variability. The increasing availability of remote sensing techniques with appropriate …

Recent changes in wetlands on the Tibetan Plateau: A review

Z Zhao, Y Zhang, L Liu, F Liu, H Zhang - Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2015 - Springer
About 80% of global wetland resources are degrading or disappearing; thus the wetland
ecosystem has become one of the most seriously threatened ecosystems in the world. As an …

Response of inland lake dynamics over the Tibetan Plateau to climate change

Y Lei, K Yang, B Wang, Y Sheng, BW Bird, G Zhang… - Climatic Change, 2014 - Springer
The water balance of inland lakes on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) involves complex
hydrological processes; their dynamics over recent decades is a good indicator of changes …

Changes in area and water volume of the Aral Sea in the arid Central Asia over the period of 1960–2018 and their causes

X Yang, N Wang, J He, T Hua, Y Qie - Catena, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Aral Sea (68,478 km 2 in 1960) was the world's fourth largest inland lake in
1960s. However, it shrank sharply over the past six decades, and its changes caused a …

Coherent lake growth on the central Tibetan Plateau since the 1970s: Characterization and attribution

Y Lei, T Yao, BW Bird, K Yang, J Zhai, Y Sheng - Journal of Hydrology, 2013 - Elsevier
Although lakes on the central Tibetan Plateau (TP) expanded significantly in recent
decades, causes for the lake growth still have not been well addressed. Based on remote …

Water-level changes in China's large lakes determined from ICESat/GLAS data

X Wang, P Gong, Y Zhao, Y Xu, X Cheng, Z Niu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Water-level changes from 56 of the 100 largest lakes in China were derived from
ICESat/GLAS data during the period of 2003 to 2009. An automated method for determining …

[HTML][HTML] A lake data set for the Tibetan Plateau from the 1960s, 2005, and 2014

W Wan, D Long, Y Hong, Y Ma, Y Yuan, P Xiao… - Scientific Data, 2016 - nature.com
Long-term datasets of number and size of lakes over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are among
the most critical components for better understanding the interactions among the …

Spatiotemporal variations in volume of closed lakes on the Tibetan Plateau and their climatic responses from 1976 to 2013

R Yang, L Zhu, J Wang, J Ju, Q Ma, F Turner, Y Guo - Climatic Change, 2017 - Springer
To study the response of lakes to climate change, variations in volume of closed lakes larger
than 50 km 2 on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) were analyzed by integrating Shuttle Radar …

What drives the rapid water-level recovery of the largest lake (Qinghai Lake) of China over the past half century?

C Fan, C Song, W Li, K Liu, J Cheng, C Fu, T Chen… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Qinghai Lake (QHL), the largest saline lake in China, is located in the Tibetan Plateau. The
lake plays an important role in regional water and nutrient cycles and the sustenance of …

Water balance estimates of ten greatest lakes in China using ICESat and Landsat data

GQ Zhang, HJ Xie, TD Yao, SC Kang - Chinese Science Bulletin, 2013 - Springer
Lake level and area variations are sensitive to regional climate changes and can be used to
indirectly estimate water balances of lakes. In this study, 10 of the largest lakes in China,∼ …