edu.ucar.opensky::articles:22546 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-25T15:38:30.135658 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7bv7kqz Recent Third Pole's rapid warming accompanies cryospheric melt and water cycle intensification and interactions between monsoon and environment: Multidisciplinary approach with observations, modeling, and analysis 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7bv7kqz https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0057.1 Yao, T. author Xue, Y. author Chen, D. author Chen, F. author Thompson, L. author Cui, P. author Koike, T. author Lau, W. K. author Lettenmaier, D. author Mosbrugger, V. author Zhang, R. author Xu, B. author Dozier, J. author Gillespie, T. author Gu, Y. author Kang, S. author Piao, S. author Sugimoto, S. author Ueno, K. author Wang, L. author Wang, W. author Zhang, F. author Sheng, Y. author Guo, W. author Ailikun author Yang, X. author Ma, Y. author Shen, S. S. P. author Su, Z. author Chen, Fei author Liang, S. author Liu, Y. author Singh, V. P. author Yang, K. author Yang, D. author Zhao, X. author Qian, Y. author Zhang, Y. author Li, Q. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher The Third Pole (TP) is experiencing rapid warming and is currently in its warmest period in the past 2,000 years. This paper reviews the latest development in multidisciplinary TP research associated with this warming. The rapid warming facilitates intense and broad glacier melt over most of the TP, although some glaciers in the northwest are advancing. By heating the atmosphere and reducing snow/ice albedo, aerosols also contribute to the glaciers melting. Glacier melt is accompanied by lake expansion and intensification of the water cycle over the TP. Precipitation has increased over the eastern and northwestern TP. Meanwhile, the TP is greening and most regions are experiencing advancing phenological trends, although over the southwest there is a spring phenological delay mainly in response to the recent decline in spring precipitation. Atmospheric and terrestrial thermal and dynamical processes over the TP affect the Asian monsoon at different scales. Recent evidence indicates substantial roles that mesoscale convective systems play in the TP's precipitation as well as an association between soil moisture anomalies in the TP and the Indian monsoon. Moreover, an increase in geohazard events has been associated with recent environmental changes, some of which have had catastrophic consequences caused by glacial lake outbursts and landslides. Active debris flows are growing in both frequency of occurrences and spatial scale. Meanwhile, new types of disasters, such as the twin ice avalanches in Ali in 2016, are now appearing in the region. Adaptation and mitigation measures should be taken to help societies' preparation for future environmental challenges. Some key issues for future TP studies are also discussed. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright 2019 American Meteorological Society. None eng geoscientificInformation