You are hereTPE research stations acknowledged in Science
TPE research stations acknowledged in Science
A recent Science News Focus praised TPE’s effort to establish a high-elevation environmental monitoring network. The article titled “Third Pole Glacier Research Gets a Boost from China” outlines some of the challenges and goals of the TPE flagship station monitoring network. In the article, Prof. Tandong Yao, Director of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research summarized the urgent data needs with a single sentence: “To understand the past, we need to understand the present.”
Although the article mistakenly reported the area of Third Pole glaciers as 1,000 km2 (actual area is over 100,000 km2), it succeeded in highlighting the importance of the region’s climate sensitivity, “The region is also among the world’s most rapidly warming areas; monitoring it is crucial to understanding the impact of climate change…”. The article by Christina Larson appears in Vol. 334 of Science (2 Dec 2011, p. 1199) and may be downloaded by clicking on the following image:
