Hydrology and Earth System Sciences www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net 1027-5606 1607-7938 13 7 2009 10.5194/hess-13-1103-2009 http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/13/1103/2009/ http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/13/1103/2009/hess-13-1103-2009.html http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/13/1103/2009/hess-13-1103-2009.pdf 1103 1111 2009-07-09 Recent advances on the study of atmosphere-land interaction observations on the Tibetan Plateau Y. Ma ymma@itpcas.ac.cn Y. Wang R. Wu Z. Hu K. Yang M. Li W. Ma L. Zhong F. Sun X. Chen Z. Zhu S. Wang H. Ishikawa Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan As a unique geological and geographical unit, the Tibetan Plateau dramatically impacts the world's environment and especially controls climatic and environmental changes in China, Asia and even in the Northern Hemisphere. Tibetan Plateau, therefore, provides a field laboratory for studying global change. With support from various agencies in the People's Republic of China, a Tibetan Observation and Research Platform (TORP) is now implementing. Firstly the background of the establishment of the TORP, the establishing and monitoring plan of long-term scale (5–10 years) of the TORP has been introduced. 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