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Reflections and future strategies for Third Pole Environment

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Third Pole Environment programme was established to characterize Earth System interactions over the broader Tibetan Plateau region. Despite past successes, more insight and actionable knowledge are needed, particularly regarding the Asian Water Tower’s imbalance and associated ecosystem feedbacks and geohazards, and the teleconnections between the Third Pole and other regions.

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This work is supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) Program (2019QZKK0208), and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA20100300) and our international partners. The authors are grateful to J. Gao, W. Wang and G. Zhang.

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  1. Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Tandong Yao & Shilong Piao

  2. Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Lonnie Thompson

  3. Department of Earth Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Deliang Chen

  4. Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Shilong Piao

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Yao, T., Thompson, L., Chen, D. et al. Reflections and future strategies for Third Pole Environment. Nat Rev Earth Environ 3, 608–610 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00342-4

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