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

Kirillin, Georgiy; Wen, Lijuan; Shatwell, Tom

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-1895-2017

Articles | Volume 21, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-1895-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-1895-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 4

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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RC1: 'Moderate revisions suggested', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Jan 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to comments of Referee 1', Georgiy Kirillin, 14 Feb 2017
  - RC3: 'Good job', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Feb 2017
RC2: 'Comment on "Seasonal thermal regime and climatic trends in lakes of Tibetan Highlands"', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Jan 2017
- AC2: 'Rsponse to Referee 2', Georgiy Kirillin, 14 Feb 2017

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by Editor) (21 Feb 2017) by Nandita Basu

AR by Georgiy Kirillin on behalf of the Authors (21 Feb 2017) Author's response

ED: Publish as is (13 Mar 2017) by Nandita Basu

AR by Georgiy Kirillin on behalf of the Authors (13 Mar 2017)

Short summary

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.