Open AccessTibetan Plateau Lakes as Heat Flux Hot Spots
Author(s) -
Kate Wheeling
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2021eo162931
Subject(s) - plateau (mathematics) , spots , flux (metallurgy) , heat flux , environmental science , materials science , physics , heat transfer , thermodynamics , chemistry , metallurgy , mathematics , mathematical analysis
Freshwater lakes on the highest plateau in the world act like lenses that accumulate heat from the intense solar radiation, accelerating ice cover melt and affecting land-atmosphere fluxes.
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