Dear Colleagues,

With an average altitude of over 4,000 meters, the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is the highest physical geographical unit in the world and an important ecological security barrier for China and Asia. The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is the fastest-warming region in East Asia, and it is also one of the regions with the most significant "wetness", which intensifies the occurrence of extreme weather and climate events. The frequency of extreme high-temperature events and extreme precipitation events has increased significantly in most areas of the Plateau; extreme weather and climate events such as heavy precipitation and heavy snowfall have increased, and derived disasters such as debris flow, landslide, collapse and glacial lake outburst have intensified. As a key region in the global energy and water cycle, climate change on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau has a significant impact on climate and environment change on the plateau itself and its surrounding areas. Further understanding of the plateau climate change law, assessment and prediction of future trends, in order to serve the global ecological environment protection and the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, have become the main contents of climate change research on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. The Tibetan Plateau may be a new critical element of climate in an active state. The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and other critical elements (e.g., climate-sensitive areas such as the Amazon rainforest) show significant tele-contribution characteristics. Studying possible chain reactions between tipping points is a key scientific issue.

This Special Issue focuses on the Tibetan teleconnections among tipping elements in the Earth system, the observed changes in climate and their effects over the Tibetan Plateau, and the variation characteristics, mechanism and projection of extreme precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau.

Dr. Quanliang Chen
Guest Editor

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• Tibetan Plateau
• extreme precipitation
• climate change
• climate system
• complex terrain