Planetary climate interactions of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
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| author | Wang, Ziyan Liu, Teng Wang, Shang Fang, Sheng Meng, Jun Chen, Xiaosong Kurths, Jürgen Havlin, Shlomo Chen, Fahu Rockström, Johan Chen, Deliang Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim Fan, Jingfang |
| author_facet | Wang, Ziyan Liu, Teng Wang, Shang Fang, Sheng Meng, Jun Chen, Xiaosong Kurths, Jürgen Havlin, Shlomo Chen, Fahu Rockström, Johan Chen, Deliang Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim Fan, Jingfang |
| contents | The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), Earth's "Third Pole", profoundly shapes the Asian monsoon and regional climate and exerts far-reaching influence on the global climate system. Yet its role in organizing planetary-scale climate interactions remains poorly quantified. Here we develop a climate network framework to explicitly resolve the planetary teleconnection architecture associated with the QTP across historical observations and future climate projections, with physical consistency assessed using Lagrangian trajectory diagnostics and targeted numerical experiments. We uncover a persistent and directional interaction structure linking the QTP with multiple major climate tipping elements. In particular, we identify a robust tripolar interaction mode coupling the QTP with both the Arctic and Antarctica through coherent atmospheric-oceanic pathways. Our findings establish the QTP as a critical planetary climate integrator, revealing a significant blind spot in current climate models and risk frameworks regarding cascading tipping dynamics in a warming world. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Planetary climate interactions of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Wang, Ziyan Liu, Teng Wang, Shang Fang, Sheng Meng, Jun Chen, Xiaosong Kurths, Jürgen Havlin, Shlomo Chen, Fahu Rockström, Johan Chen, Deliang Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim Fan, Jingfang Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics Geophysics The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), Earth's "Third Pole", profoundly shapes the Asian monsoon and regional climate and exerts far-reaching influence on the global climate system. Yet its role in organizing planetary-scale climate interactions remains poorly quantified. Here we develop a climate network framework to explicitly resolve the planetary teleconnection architecture associated with the QTP across historical observations and future climate projections, with physical consistency assessed using Lagrangian trajectory diagnostics and targeted numerical experiments. We uncover a persistent and directional interaction structure linking the QTP with multiple major climate tipping elements. In particular, we identify a robust tripolar interaction mode coupling the QTP with both the Arctic and Antarctica through coherent atmospheric-oceanic pathways. Our findings establish the QTP as a critical planetary climate integrator, revealing a significant blind spot in current climate models and risk frameworks regarding cascading tipping dynamics in a warming world. |
| title | Planetary climate interactions of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau |
| topic | Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics Geophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16924 |