Multispherical interactions and their effects on the Tibetan Plateau's earth system: a review of the recent researches

作者：Tandong Yao, Fu‐Yuan Wu, Lin Ding, Jimin Sun, Liping Zhu, Shilong Piao, Tao Deng, Xijun Ni, Hongbo Zheng, Hua Ouyang · 发表于：National Science Review · 年份：2015 · DOI：10.1093/nsr/nwv070 · 被引用次数：162 · 研究领域：Geology and Paleoclimatology Research、Geological and Geochemical Analysis、Geological Studies and Exploration

Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is a regional Earth system showing very strong interactions among its lithosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, and anthrosphere. These interactions manifest TP's impact on surrounding regions and reflect TP's response to the global change. Quantifying the multispherical interactions is critically important to understand the TP environment. Our recent years researches including the ongoing program entitled ‘Tibetan Multi-Spheres Interactions and Their Resource-Environment Significance (TIMI)’, the completed program entitled. ‘Paleo-Altitudes of Tibetan Plateau and Environment (PATE)’, as well as the other relating projects have focused on multidisciplinary research approaches and emphasized on three major pathways: Eurasia-Indian plates collision on deep-Earth dynamics, uplift impact on Earth's mantle–crust dynamics, and contemporary interface on land surface and atmospheric dynamics. Our researches have taken in situ measurement as priority and developed several platforms of data acquisition and analysis, including the platforms of water-phase transformations, and ecosystem observations. Our field investigations have been conducted to obtain data about stratum, paleontology, paleoenvironment, genetic differentiation of animals and plants. We have developed conceptual and mathematical models for crust uplift formation, paleoclimate, glacial melt, water–air interface flux, vegetation climate, and soil erosion. We have also a...