The Third Atmospheric Scientific Experiment for Understanding the Earth –Atmosphere Coupled System Over the Tibetan Plateau and Its Effects
THE THIRD ATMOSPHERIC SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT FOR UNDERSTANDING THE EARTH –ATMOSPHERE COUPLED SYSTEM OVER THE TIBETAN PLATEAU AND ITS EFFECTS PING ZHAO, XIANGDE XU, FEI CHEN, XUELIANG GUO, XIANGDONG ZHENG, LIPING LIU, YANG HONG, YUEQING LI, ZUO LA, HAO PENG, LINZHI ZHONG, YAOMING MA, SHIHAO TANG, YIMIN LIU, HUIZHI LIU, YAOHUI LI, QIANG ZHANG, ZEYONG HU, JIHUA SUN, SHENGJUN ZHANG, LIXIN DONG, HEZHEN ZHANG, YANG ZHAO, XIAOLU YAN, AN XIAO, WEI WAN, YU LIU, JUNMING CHEN, GE LIU, YANGZONG ZHAXI, AND XIUJI ZHOU Integrated monitoring systems for the land surface, boundary layer, troposphere, and lower stratosphere over the Tibetan Plateau promote the understanding of the Earth–atmosphere coupled processes and their effects on weather and climate. he Tibetan Plateau (TP), known as the “sensible in the tropics and midlatitudes of the North Pacific heat pump” and the “atmospheric water tower,” (e.g., Zhao and Chen 2001b; Liu et al. 2007; Zhao et al. T modifies monsoon circulations and regional 2007; Nan et al. 2009; Zhao et al. 2009; Zhou et al. energy and water cycles over Asia (Wu and Zhang 2009; Duan et al. 2012). Therefore, global weather 1998; Zhao and Chen 2001a; Wu et al. 2007; Xu et al. and climate research would be incomplete without 2008b; Zhou et al. 2009). Strong ascent over the TP considering the significant role of the TP. may transport lower-tropospheric water vapor and Compared to other land regions in the world, anthropogenic pollutants into the upper troposphere– observational data are scarce over the TP, owing to lower stratosphere (UT–LS), which exerts an influ- its high elevations, naturally harsh environmental ence on the regional ozone valley (Zhou et al.
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