Lakes come and go ‘due to rapid warming’
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CLIMATE change researchers working across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau say rapid warming has resulted in the formation of 99 new lakes and “extensive” lake expansion over 43 years.
The findings were published in the latest edition of the American journal “Geophysical Research Letters.”
Besides the north and south poles, the Qinghai-Tibet and Mongolian plateaus are the most sensitive regions to climate change, said Zhang Guoqing from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research. Zhang was the lead author of the paper.
The two adjacent plateaus have been changing in opposite directions in response to climate change, according to the paper.
“We found 99 new lakes and extensive lake expansion on the Tibetan Plateau during the past four decades from 1970 to 2013,” said Zhang.
In contrast, on the Mongolian Plateau, 208 lakes have disappeared and 75 percent of those remaining have shrunk, mainly due to activities by mankind, Zhang said.
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