Chinese Journal of Polar Research

ADVANCES IN POLAR SCIENCE ›› 1998, Vol. 9 ›› Issue (1-English): 39-48.

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A comparison of climatic change between Svalbard in Arctic and the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau

Kang Shichang1, Yao Tandong1, Qin Dahe1 and Yan Yuping2   

  1. 1Laboratory of Ice Core and Cold Regions Environment, Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China

    2Lanzhou Institute of Plateau Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China

  • Online:1948-03-30 Published:1948-03-30
  • Contact: Kang Shichang

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Abstract:

Discussion is focused on the characteristics of climatic change in Svalbard for the last 80 a, there the climate tend to be slightly warming. But the decreasing of temperature is an abnormal phenomenon in the background of global temperature increasing since the mid-1970s in Svalbard. By analysis of temperature and precipitation at key stations in the last 40 a, it is concluded that in climatic change Svalbard may be compared with the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, though there are differences that are caused by other factors.

Key words: Svalbard in Arctic, the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, climatic change