Chinese scientists have pieced together the dramatic geographical changes of the Luolong Basin in the eastern part of the Xizang autonomous region, revealing a period of rapid elevation and climatic ...

The Tibetan Plateau, often referred to as the "Water Tower of Asia", is crucial to the hydrological cycle, feeding major Asian rivers such as the Yangtze, Yellow River, Indus, and Ganges.

The team identified the lagged relationship between spring land temperatures over the Tibetan Plateau and downstream summer rains over East Asia. The findings identified that warm and cold spring ...