Tibetan Plateau - wikipedia Tibetan Plateau Tibetan Plateau 青藏 高原 ( Qīng -- Zàng Gāoyuán, Qinghai -- Tibet Plateau ) The Tibetan Plateau lies between the Himalayan range to the south and the Taklamakan Desert to the north. Length 2,500 km ( 1,600 mi ) Width 1,000 km ( 620 mi ) Area 2,500,000 km ( 970,000 sq mi ) Geography Tibetan Plateau and surrounding areas above 1600 m Location China ( Tibet, Qinghai ) India ( Ladakh ) Northern Nepal Range coordinates 33 ° N 88 ° E ﻿ / ﻿ 33 ° N 88 ° E ﻿ / 33 ; 88 Coordinates : 33 ° N 88 ° E ﻿ / ﻿ 33 ° N 88 ° E ﻿ / 33 ; 88 The Tibetan Plateau ( Tibetan : བོད ་ ས ་ མཐོ །, Wylie : bod sa mtho ), also known in China as the Qinghai -- Tibet Plateau or the Qing -- Zang Plateau ( Chinese : 青藏 高原 ; pinyin : Qīng -- Zàng Gāoyuán ) or Himalayan Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau in Central Asia and East Asia, covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai in western China, as well as part of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, India. It stretches approximately 1,000 kilometres ( 620 mi ) north to south and 2,500 kilometres ( 1,600 mi ) east to west. With an average elevation exceeding 4,500 metres ( 14,800 ft ), the Tibetan Plateau is sometimes called `` the Roof of the World '' because it stands over 3 miles ( 4.8 km ) above sea level and is surrounded by imposing mountain ranges that harbor the world 's two highest summits, Mount Everest and K2, and is the world 's highest and largest plateau, with an area of 2,500,000 square kilometres ( 970,000 sq mi ) ( about five times the size of Metropolitan France ). Sometimes termed the Third Pole, the Tibetan Plateau contains the headwaters of the drainage basins of most of the streams in surrounding regions. Its tens of thousands of glaciers and other geographical and ecological features serve as a `` water tower '' storing water and maintaining flow. The impact of global warming on the Tibetan Plateau is of intense scientific interest. Contents 1 Description 2 Geology and geological history 3 Environment 4 Human history 5 Impact on other regions 5.1 Role in monsoons 6 Glaciology : the Ice Age and at present 6.1 Effect of climate change 7 See also 8 References 8.1 Citations 8.2 Sources 9 External links Description The Tibetan Plateau is surrounded by massive mountain ranges. The plateau is bordered to the south by the inner Himalayan range, to the north by the Kunlun Mountains, which separate it from the Tarim Basin, and to the northeast by the Qilian Mountains, which separate the plateau from the Hexi Corridor and Gobi Desert. To the east and southeast the plateau gives way to the forested gorge and ridge geography of the mountainous headwaters of the Salween, Mekong, and Yangtze rivers in northwest Yunnan and western Sichuan ( the Hengduan Mountains ). In the west the curve of the rugged Karakoram range of northern Kashmir embraces the plateau. The Indus River originates in the western Tibetan Plateau in the vicinity of Lake Manasarovar. Tibetan Buddhist stupa and houses outside the town of Ngawa, on the Tibetan Plateau. The Tibetan Plateau is bounded in the north by a broad escarpment where the altitude drops from around 5,000 metres ( 16,000 ft ) to 1,500 metres ( 4,900 ft ) over a horizontal distance of less than 150 kilometres ( 93 mi ). Along the escarpment is a range of mountains. In the west the Kunlun Mountains separate the plateau from the Tarim Basin. About halfway across the Tarim the bounding range becomes the Altyn - Tagh and the Kunluns, by convention, continue somewhat to the south. In the ' V ' formed by this split is the western part of the Qaidam Basin. The Altyn - Tagh ends near the Dangjin pass on the Dunhuang - Golmud road. To the west are short ranges called the Danghe, Yema, Shule, and Tulai Nanshans. The easternmost range is the Qilian Mountains. The line of mountains continues east of the plateau as the Qinling, which separates the Ordos Plateau from Sichuan. North of the mountains runs the Gansu or Hexi Corridor which was the main silk - road route from China proper to the West. The plateau is a high - altitude arid steppe interspersed with mountain ranges and large brackish lakes. Annual precipitation ranges from 100 to 300 millimetres ( 3.9 to 11.8 in ) and falls mainly as hail. The southern and eastern edges of the steppe have grasslands which can sustainably support populations of nomadic herdsmen, although frost occurs for six months of the year. Permafrost occurs over extensive parts of the plateau. Proceeding to the north and northwest, the plateau becomes progressively higher, colder and drier, until reaching the remote Changtang region in the northwestern part of the plateau. Here the average altitude exceeds 5,000 metres ( 16,000 ft ) and winter temperatures can drop to − 40 ° C ( − 40 ° F ). As a result of this extremely inhospitable environment, the Changthang region ( together with the adjoining Kekexili region ) is the least populous region in Asia, and the third least populous area in the world after Antarctica and northern Greenland. NASA satellite image of the south - eastern area of Tibetan Plateau. Brahmaputra River is in the lower right. Geology and geological history This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. ( January 2011 ) Main article : Geology of the Himalaya Yamdrok Lake is one of the three largest sacred lakes in Tibet. The geological history of the Tibetan Plateau is closely related to that of the Himalayas. The Himalayas are among the youngest mountain ranges on the planet and consist mostly of uplifted sedimentary and metamorphic rock. Their formation is a result of a continental collision or orogeny along the convergent boundary between the Indo - Australian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The collision began in the Upper Cretaceous period about 70 million years ago, when the north - moving Indo - Australian Plate, moving at about 15 cm ( 6 in ) per year, collided with the Eurasian Plate. About 50 million years ago, this fast moving Indo - Australian plate had completely closed the Tethys Ocean, the existence of which has been determined by sedimentary rocks settled on the ocean floor, and the volcanoes that fringed its edges. Since these sediments were light, they crumpled into mountain ranges rather than sinking to the floor. The Indo - Australian plate continues to be driven horizontally below the Tibetan Plateau, which forces the plateau to move upwards ; the plateau is still rising at a rate of approximately 5 mm ( 0.2 in ) per year. Much of the Tibetan Plateau is of relatively low relief. The cause of this is debated among geologists. Some argue that the Tibetan Plateau is an uplifted peneplain formed at low altitude, while others argue that the low relief stems from erosion and infill of topographic depressions that occurred at already high elevations. Environment The Tibetan Plateau supports a variety of ecosystems, most of them classified as montane grasslands. While parts of the plateau feature an alpine tundra - like environment, other areas feature monsoon - influenced shrublands and forests. Species diversity is generally reduced on the plateau due to the elevation of low precipitation. The Tibetan Plateau hosts species of gray wolf, snow leopard, wild yak, wild donkey, cranes, vultures, hawks, geese, snakes, and water buffalo. One notable animal is the high - altitude jumping spider, that can live at elevations of over 6,500 metres ( 21,300 ft ). Ecoregions found on the Tibetan Plateau, as defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature, are as follows : The Pamir alpine desert and tundra covers the western end of the Tibetan Plateau where it transitions to the Pamir Mountains The North Tibetan Plateau - Kunlun Mountains alpine desert covers the northwestern limits of the Tibetan Plateau along the Kunlun Mountains The Karakoram - West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe covers the westernmost parts of the Tibetan Plateau and Ladakh The Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows on the edges mountains bordering the extreme west of the Tibetan Plateau The Central Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe covers most of the central portions of the Tibetan Plateau and the eastern Changtang The Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows covers the southwestern plateau in the Garuda Valley region The Qaidam Basin semi-desert located in the Qaidam Basin on the northern Tibetan Plateau The Qilian Mountains subalpine meadows covering the Qilian Mountains in the northernmost portions of the plateau The Qilian Mountains conifer forests covering parts of the mountain ranges in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau The Tibetan Plateau alpine shrub and meadows covering a swath of the central and northeastern Tibetan Plateau The Yarlung Tsangpo arid steppe in the Yarlung Tsangpo River Valley, where most of the permanent human population on the Tibetan Plateau lives The Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows cover the southern Tibetan Plateau on the north side of the Himalayas The Southeast Tibet shrub and meadows cover the southeastern and eastern parts of the plateau and are generally rainier than the other high - altitude Tibetan Plateau regions The Northeastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests reach up mountain valleys in the southern plateau and contain some of the highest altitude forests in the world The Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests cover the mountain valleys that reach 500 km ( 310 mi ) into the southeastern Tibetan Plateau The Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests cover the southeasternmost mountain valleys on the plateau The Qionglai - Minshan conifer forests cover the eastern edges of the plateau and are the densest forests to be found anywhere on the Tibetan Plateau Human history Pastoral nomads camping near Namtso. Main article : History of Tibet Nomads on the Tibetan Plateau and in the Himalayas are the remainders of nomadic practices historically once widespread in Asia and Africa. Pastoral nomads constitute about 40 % of the ethnic Tibetan population. The presence of nomadic peoples on the plateau is predicated on their adaptation to survival on the world 's grassland by raising livestock rather than crops, which are unsuitable to the terrain. Archaeological evidence suggests that the colonization leading to the full - time occupation of the plateau occurred much later than the previously thought 30,000 years ago. Since colonization of the Tibetan Plateau, Tibetan culture has adapted and flourished in the western, southern, and eastern regions of the plateau. The northern portion, the Changtang, is generally too high and cold to support permanent population. One of the most notable civilizations to have developed on the Tibetan Plateau is the Tibetan Empire from the 7th century to the 9th century AD. Impact on other regions Role in monsoons Main article : Monsoon Natural - colour satellite image of the Tibetan Plateau Monsoons are caused by the different amplitudes of surface temperature seasonal cycles between land and oceans. This differential warming happens because heating rates differ between land and water. Ocean heating is distributed vertically through a `` mixed layer '' that may be fifty meters deep through the action of wind and buoyancy - generated turbulence, whereas the land surface conducts heat slowly, with the seasonal signal penetrating only a meter or so. Additionally, the specific heat capacity of liquid water is significantly greater than that of most materials that make up land. Together, these factors mean that the heat capacity of the layer participating in the seasonal cycle is much larger over the oceans than over land, with the consequence that the land warms and cools faster than the ocean. In turn, air over the land warms faster and reaches a higher temperature than does air over the ocean. The warmer air over land tends to rise, creating an area of low pressure. The pressure anomaly then causes a steady wind to blow toward the land, which brings the moist air over the ocean surface with it. Rainfall is then increased by the presence of the moist ocean air. The rainfall is stimulated by a variety of mechanisms, such as low - level air being lifted upwards by mountains, surface heating, convergence at the surface, divergence aloft, or from storm - produced outflows near the surface. When such lifting occurs, the air cools due expansion in lower pressure, which in turn produces condensation and precipitation. In winter, the land cools off quickly, but the ocean maintains the heat longer. The hot air over the ocean rises, creating a low - pressure area and a breeze from land to ocean while a large area of drying high pressure is formed over the land, increased by wintertime cooling. Monsoons are similar to sea and land breezes, a term usually referring to the localized, diurnal cycle of circulation near coastlines everywhere, but they are much larger in scale, stronger and seasonal. The seasonal monsoon wind shift and weather associated with the heating and cooling of the Tibetan plateau is the strongest such monsoon on Earth. Glaciology : the ice Age and at present The Himalayas as seen from space looking south from over the Tibetan Plateau. Today, Tibet is an important heating surface of the atmosphere. However, during the Last Glacial Maximum, an approximately 2,400,000 square kilometres ( 930,000 sq mi ) ice sheet covered the plateau. Due to its great extent, this glaciation in the subtropics was an important element of radiative forcing. With a much lower latitude, the ice in Tibet reflected at least four times more radiation energy per unit area into space than ice at higher latitudes. Thus, while the modern plateau heats the overlying atmosphere, during the Last Ice Age it helped to cool it. This cooling had multiple effects on regional climate. Without the thermal low pressure caused by the heating, there was no monsoon over the Indian subcontinent. This lack of monsoon caused extensive rainfall over the Sahara, expansion of the Thar Desert, more dust deposited into the Arabian Sea, and a lowering of the biotic life zones on the Indian subcontinent. Animals responded to this shift in climate, with the Javan rusa migrating into India. In addition, the glaciers in Tibet created meltwater lakes in the Qaidam Basin, the Tarim Basin, and the Gobi Desert, despite the strong evaporation caused by the low latitude. Silt and clay from the glaciers accumulated in these lakes ; when the lakes dried at the end of the ice age, the silt and clay were blown by the downslope wind off the Plateau. These airborne fine grains produced the enormous amount of loess in the Chinese lowlands. Effect of climate Change The Tibetan Plateau contains the world 's third - largest store of ice. Qin Dahe, the former head of the China Meteorological Administration, issued the following assessment in 2009 : Temperatures are rising four times faster than elsewhere in China, and the Tibetan glaciers are retreating at a higher speed than in any other part of the world. (... ) In the short term, this will cause lakes to expand and bring floods and mudflows. (... ) In the long run, the glaciers are vital lifelines for Asian rivers, including the Indus and the Ganges. Once they vanish, water supplies in those regions will be in peril. 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Photos of Tibetan nomads `` Roof of the Earth '' Offers Clues About How Our Planet Was Shaped Contemporary lifestyle and language learning center from Tibet lhasa, the official language of Tibetan. podcast. 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