further confirming the unsuitability of cloud microphysical parameterizations in current precipitation numerical models for the Tibetan Plateau region. Satellite-measured precipitation data may ...

Most of Asia's major rivers find their source on the Tibetan plateau. However as the global temperature rises, Tibet’s glaciers are melting and grassland permafrost is thawing at an alarming rate.

The researchers used satellite imagery to map the current ... new study is similar to orogenic evolutions proposed for the Tibetan Plateau and the Peruvian Andes, according to the authors.