Articles | Volume 21, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-1895-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-1895-2017
Research article
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04 Apr 2017
Research article |  | 04 Apr 2017

Seasonal thermal regime and climatic trends in lakes of the Tibetan highlands

Georgiy Kirillin, Lijuan Wen, and Tom Shatwell

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Data supplement G. Kirillin, L. Wen, and T. Shatwell http://www.flake.igb-berlin.de/tibet/tibet_lakes_model.zip

Data supplement T. Shatwell, G. Kirillin, and L. Wen http://www.flake.igb-berlin.de/tibet/tibet_lakes_statistics.zip

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We report a first description of the seasonal temperature, mixing, and ice regime in the two largest freshwater lakes of the Tibetan Plateau. We perform a validation of lake model FLake for the parameterization of the Tibetan lake system in regional climate models and present evidence of the absent warming trend in the Tibetan lakes despite significant atmospheric warming. The reason for this unexpected behavior is the significant decrease in solar radiation at the surface.