Latest research: South Asian monsoon interruption promotes vegetation growth on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

China news agency, Beijing, April 25 (Reporter Sun Zifa) - China Kexue Yuan Institute of Tibetan Plateau ( Zhong Keyuan Qinghai-Tibet Plateau) announced that at 25, to carry out the observation of the three-pole and Big Data team with Tsinghua University, Southwest University In cooperation, the latest research using multiple sets of soil moisture content and vegetation index data found that during the interruption of the South Asian monsoon, soil moisture in the central and eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau generally declined, but vegetation growth activities were more vigorous.

This research is the first to discover and reveal the effect of the interruption of the South Asian monsoon on the growth of alpine vegetation.

This important research progress paper in the field of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau ecology was recently published by the international professional academic journal "Geophysical Research".

Zhong Keyuan Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, said the growth of vegetation activity governed by different time scale climate variability (ie, rate of change) affected.

Based on this, Zhong Keyuan new generation of solar energy utilization model vegetation Tibetan Plateau Research team of researchers with related universities, during the South Asian monsoon climate characteristics and their impact on interrupting the alpine ecosystem of the analysis, combined with the development of Tsinghua University Quantify the contribution of various climatic factors to the growth activities of alpine vegetation during the monsoon interruption period.

The latest research results show that the South Asian monsoon interruption occurs on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from June to August every year, lasting about 10 to 40 days each time, affecting most of the central and eastern parts of the plateau.