Abstract

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, as the "Asian Water Tower", occupies about a quarter of China's area and has diverse climate patterns. Affected by global climate change, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has been warming, humid and greening in the past 40 years. So, what happened to the closest water cycle? What is the main reason for the change? This lecture will discuss these issues with you.

Presenter Profile

Yang Kun is a professor in theDepartment of Earth System Science atTsinghua university, an adjunct professor at the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Earth Sciences Excellence Innovation Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a recipient of the National Outstanding Young Science Fund, and a chief scientist in the National Key R & D Program. He has obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in water conservancy from Tsinghua University and a doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Tokyo. His main research interests are land surface processes, satellite data assimilation, and hydrology and climate studies on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. He has published nearly 200 papers and has been cited by SCI more than 6000 times. He is currently a member of the GEWEX / GLASS committee and the editorial board of JMR and JMS journals.