Abstract:
Monthly mean maximum (
Tmax), minimum temperature (
Tmin) and daily temperature differences (△T) at 25 stations over Tibet from 1971 to 2000 are used to analyze the asymmetric change of maximum and minimum temperature in the Tibetan Plateau. The results show: The asymmetry is detectable in the whole Tibetan Plateau, and the typical pattern of asymmetry is he increase of
Tmax and
Tmin (
Tmin increase is bigger then that of
Tmax), the increase of
Tmax occurs mainly in summer and that of
Tmin in autumn and △T decrease because of obviously increasing
Tmin, In additon,
Tmin increases with increasing altitude; increase is the strongest in the region of 3000 to 4000 m, and △T tends to decrease over 4000 m.