Fig. 4: The albedo-induced shrinkage of glacier volume in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and its surrounding ranges.
From: Regional and tele-connected impacts of the Tibetan Plateau surface darkening
a The proportion of albedo-induced shrinkage of glacier volume and the remaining one on the centennial scale (outer ring, from the transient simulations) and at the equilibrium state (inner ring, from the equilibrium simulations). b The spatial pattern of equilibrium-state glacier volume in CTL_e and its loss proportion of SCE_e relative to CTL_e. The loss proportion is computed as the difference between the final 1000-year glacier volume of SCE_e and CTL_e divided by that of CTL_e. The black line indicates the boundary of TP. The gray lines indicate the boundaries of the 13 second-order regions defined by the RGI v657,58. More details about these regions are shown in Supplementary Table 1. The size of each circle represents the equilibrium-state glacier volume at a spatial resolution of 1° in CTL_e, while the color of each circle represents the mean loss proportion of glacier volume in SCE_e relative to CTL_e under the equilibrium state. The glacier volume has been upscaled based on the ratio of the first-year simulations in OGGM and the estimated values from ref. 71 (see Methods).
