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The Tibetan Plateau, [a] ... and winter temperatures can drop to −40 °C (−40 °F). ... Detailed map of Qinghai–Tibet Plateau infrastructure at risk from ...
Tibet is located on the Tibetan Plateau, the world's highest region. Tibetan Plateau and surrounding areas above 1600-m topography [ 22 ] [ 23 ] The Tibetan plateau lies between the Himalayan range to the south and the Taklamakan plain to the north.
The Tibetan Plateau is composed of three main regions, based on yearly precipitation levels and types of vegetation, namely the alpine meadow, alpine steppe, and the alpine desert-steppe. Since the Holocene, studies of fossil pollen records have shown that the alpine meadow has extended into areas that were previously alpine steppe as ...
Tibet (/ t ɪ ˈ b ɛ t / ⓘ; Tibetan: བོད, Lhasa dialect: [pʰøːʔ˨˧˩] Böd; Chinese: 藏区; pinyin: Zàngqū), or Greater Tibet, [1] is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about 2,500,000 km 2 (970,000 sq mi). It is the homeland of the Tibetan people.
Map showing the location of Qinghai Province. ... Its mean annual temperature is approximately −5 to 8 °C ... the Tibetan Plateau. The lake itself lies at 3,600 m ...
Even so, the hottest temperatures nationwide are recorded in the Turpan Depression, where the climate is much drier and temperatures often exceed 40 °C (104 °F). [11] [12] Permafrost can be found at high elevations in the Tibetan Plateau and the Tian Shan mountains, [13] [14] as well as other mountainous areas in Northern China. [14]
The climate is subtropical to temperate monsoon with a mean annual temperature of 7.8 °C, with means of −3.7 °C in January and 16.8 °C in July. [4] Total annual rainfall is 761 mm but in the cloud forest it is at least 1,000 mm. [ 4 ] 80% of rainfall occurs between May and October. [ 4 ]
Ice cores were recovered from the Purog Kangri ice field in 2000, filling a gap in knowledge of climate change in the Central Tibetan Plateau. [7] The longest core was 213 metres (699 ft). The upper 102 metres (335 ft) covered the last 1,000 years, and was analyzed along its length for the δ 18 O oxygen isotope ratio. [ 8 ]