Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Regional and tele-connected impacts of the Tibetan Plateau surface darkening

  • Shuchang Tang,
  • Anouk Vlug,
  • Shilong Piao,
  • Fei Li,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Gerhard Krinner,
  • Laurent Z. X. Li,
  • Xuhui Wang,
  • Guangjian Wu,
  • Yue Li,
  • Yuan Zhang,
  • Xu Lian,
  • Tandong Yao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35672-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Impacts of Tibetan Plateau darkening remain unclear. Here authors show that darkening under the RCP8.5 scenario will increase South Asian monsoon precipitation and the “South Flood-North Drought” pattern over East Asia, while lead to local glacier loss.