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The Qilian Mountains region, located on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, is a region in western China that is sensitive to climate change and serves as an important ecological security barrier. Previous studies mostly used meteorological stations to study climate change in the Qilian Mountains; however, due to the known distribution limitations (scarcity and inhomogeneity) of meteorological stations in mountainous areas, relevant results remain inconclusive. To address this issue, we used 30 meteorological stations in and around the Qilian Mountains and the China meteorological forcing dataset (CMFD) with a spatial resolution of 0.1° × 0.1° to comprehensively analyse the spatiotemporal distribution of and variation in the air temperature over the Qilian Mountains, with a particular focus on elevation-dependent warming (EDW); then, land surface albedo data from the ERA5-Land and MODIS products were employed to interpret the EDW. The results showed that the annual mean lapse rate in the Qilian Mountains is −0.56 °C/100 m. From 1979 to 2018, the air temperature over the Qilian Mountains experienced a significant upwards trend with an annual mean rate of 0.39 °C/decade, the maximum ra

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Author

Sihao Wei; Xuejia Wang; Kun Wang; Lanya Liu; Benben Liang; Wenyu Zhao

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)