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Analysis of Precipitation Changes and Water Vapor in the Tibetan Plateau during the Last Four Decades

Ding Bin

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The precipitation changes and water vapor of the Tibetan Plateau during 1961-2000 were analyzed by using monthly data from 56 stations, the result shows that the annual precipitation of the Tibetan Plateau behaves upward trend, and the linear growth rate is 1.12 mm per year. The Southern Plateau precipitation shows upward trend, the linear rate is 1.97 mm per year, while the Northern Plateau suggests little change. And we find that the precipitation was catastrophe in 1978. The water vapor of the Bengal Gulf and subtropical high was related to the Plateau summer rainfall.

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Key concepts: Plateau (mathematics), Precipitation, Water vapor, Climatology, Environmental science, Subtropics, Subtropical ridge, BENGAL