The effects of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) on the Pacific Ocean circulation are investigated using a fully coupled climate model. Sensitivity experiments are designed to demonstrate that the presence of ...

Mountains play a significant role in regulating global climate, controlling local weather, giving rise to a diverse variety of endemic flora and fauna, and altering rain patterns. Therefore, the ...

A new study in Nature Geoscience finds that the southern Tibetan Plateau was already more than halfway to their towering heights before the India–Eurasia continental collision. You are free to share ...

The Ontong Java Plateau, a volcanically-formed underwater plateau located in the Pacific Ocean north of the Solomon Islands, is younger and its eruption was more protracted than previously thought, ...