Recent glacial retreat in High Asia in China and its impact on water resource in Northwest China

Under the impact of climatic warming, the glaciers in the High Asia in China have been retreating continuously with negative glacial mass balance in recent several decades. The retreat became more intensive in the past 10 years. The spatial pattern of the glacial retreat in the High Asia in China is that the smallest magnitude of retreat is in the inland of the Tibetan Plateau, the magnitude increases from the inland to the margin of the Tibetan Plateau, and the largest magnitude at the margin of the Tibetan Plateau. The glacial retreat in the High Asia in China has an important impact on the water resource of the arid regions in Northwest China. This study shows that the glacial retreat in the 1990s has caused an increase of 5.5% in river runoff in Northwest China. In the Tarim River basin, the increase of river runoff is higher than 5.5%.

作 者： YAO Tandong WANG Youqing LIU Shiying PU Jianchen SHEN Yongping LU Anxin   作者單位： YAO Tandong(Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China;Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China)

WANG Youqing,SHEN Yongping(Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China)

LIU Shiying,PU Jianchen,LU Anxin(Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China) 

刊 名： 中國科學D輯（英文版）  SCI 英文刊名： SCIENCE IN CHINA SERIES D  年，卷(期)： 2004 47(12)  分類號： P6  關鍵詞： High Asia   glacial fluctuation   impact on water resource  

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