Abstract
Abstract. As a unique geological and geographical unit, the Tibetan Plateau dramatically impacts the world's environment and especially controls climatic and environmental changes in China, Asia and even in the Northern Hemisphere. Tibetan Plateau, therefore, provides a field laboratory for studying global change. With support from various agencies in the People's Republic of China, a Tibetan Observation and Research Platform (TORP) is now implementing. Firstly the background of the establishment of the TORP, the establishing and monitoring plan of long-term scale (5–10 years) of the TORP has been introduced. Then the preliminary observational analysis results, such as the characteristics of land surface heat fluxes and CO2 flux partitioning (diurnal variation and inter-monthly variation etc.), the characteristics of atmospheric and soil variables, the structure of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) and the turbulent characteristics have also been shown in this paper.
Highlights
The Tibetan Plateau, with the most prominent and complicated terrain on the globe and an elevation averaging more than 4000 m above mean sea level, is often called the “Third Pole” because its geographic significance is akin to that of Antarctica and the Arctic (Qiu, 2008)
Namco, and Linzhi) amount of data has been collected during the GAME/Tibet were established by the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research and the CAMP/Tibet, which was the best data set so far for (ITP), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in the end the study of the Tibetan Plateau hydrometeorology
The results show that: 1. The plateau Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) can extend to heights of almost 3 km above the ground surface in Naqu area of the northern Tibetan Plateau, and is characterized by a well-mixed layer of potential temperature
Summary
The thermal effects of the giant plateau on the atmosphere greatly influence circulations over China, eastern Asia and even the globe (e.g. Ye and Gao, 1979; Ye, 1981; Yanai et al, 1992; Ye and Wu, 1998; Ma and Tsukamoto, 2002; Ma et al, 2005; Ma et al, 2006a; Ma et al, 2006a;). The TORP is consisted of 21 comprehensive observation and Monsoon Project on the Tibetan Plateau (CAMP/Tibet, research stations and 16 observational sites, of which 11 2001–2006) (Ma et al, 2005) This monitoring network was comprehensive observation and research stations and 10 ob- established in the beginning of 1998 during the GAME/Tibet servational sites are configured for the study of atmosphere- period and some more instruments were set up during the land interaction (see Fig. 1). A large tions (Mt. Qomolangma–Mt. Everest, Namco, and Linzhi) amount of data has been collected during the GAME/Tibet were established by the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research and the CAMP/Tibet, which was the best data set so far for (ITP), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in the end the study of the Tibetan Plateau hydrometeorology Scientists can submit a proposal to the data center to apply for using data
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