ABSTRACT

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) known as the Earth’s third pole is the world’s highest plateau, averaging over 4000 m above sea level. It has a great influence on regional and even global climate change and disastrous weather arising from anomalous thermal and dynamic processes over the TP (Luo and Yanai, 1984). A high-quality

12.1 Introduction ................................................................................................ 215 12.2 Study Area, Data, and Method ................................................................... 216 12.3 Uncertainty Analysis ..................................................................................220