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The National Tibetan Plateau Data Center of China, as a research paper related data warehouse, has recently published “A long-term (1979-2020) high-resolution (1/30°) precipitation dataset for the Third Polar region (TPHiPr)” developed by Professor Yang Kun’s Research Group of Tsinghua University. The related article titled “TPHiPr: a long-term (1979–2020) high-accuracy precipitation datas...
The eastern Tibetan Plateau is rich in soil organic matter (SOM), which increases the amount of water the soil can hold while decreasing the rate at which heat moves through it. Previous studies have mostly discussed the impact of SOM on soil hydrothermal state from the perspective of soil thermal properties based on land surface process model, but how the plateau SOM influences the coupled lan...
With the increasing shortage of fossil energy and air pollution, solar energy sees its rapid development as a clean and renewable energy. Developing and utilizing solar energy is one of the important ways to achieve the goals of “carbon neutrality and carbon peaking” in China. Seasonal extremely low solar radiation events seriously threaten the stability of photovoltaic power generation sys...
Forests make up most of the global land carbon sink and impact the surface energy budget. Forest degradation results in carbon emissions and causes biophysical warming (biogeochemical effects). Meanwhile, forest degradation can directly change the surface biophysical properties (for example, albedo, transpiration and roughness), thus affecting local energy balance and causing temperature chang...
Extreme wildfires not only destroy ecosystems and biodiversity, but also emit a large amount of harmful pollutants and greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, posing a threat to people's health and the global climate. Recently, an international research team spearheaded by Professor Zhang Qiang from the Department of Earth System Science (DESS) in Tsinghua University and Assistant Professor Zheng...
Leaf economic spectrum (LES) is a character dimension ubiquitous in nature, which embodies the balance strategy of plant leaves on environmental resources and presents many interesting phenomena urgently awaiting explanation. Recently, Wang Han's Research Group of Tsinghua University has proposed a new optimal strategy theory, which successfully can predict the core balance relationship of LES ...
With the rise of global temperature, extreme weather events have increased, leading to changes in water cycle characteristics (such as river runoff and seasonal peak), which can more easily trigger the occurrence of droughts and floods. The latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) proposes new shared pathways (SSPs) that incorporate socioeconomic development with more compre...
Against the backdrops of serious damage to global mangrove ecosystems and decrease of mangrove area year by year, resisting and reversing the loss of mangroves has become a focus of attention of governments and international organizations. The carbon sequestration of mangrove ecosystems per unit area significantly outshines that of nearby forest ecosystems and most inland wetlands, so the prote...
