June 2020 – UMBRELLA

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UMBRELLA heads into Tibet for fieldwork (06/2020).

by Alex Farnsworth on Monday June 22nd, 2020

Back in the field! While we in the UK languish in lockdown our colleagues in China has returned to Tibet to start fieldwork in the western Gangdese Mountains, SW Tibet. Despite the recent resurgence of the virus in Being an UMBRELLA group from XTBG and Yunnan University recently arrived in Lhasa in preparation for this …

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The early Eocene rise of the Gonjo Basin, SE Tibet: From low desert to high forest

by Alex Farnsworth on Monday June 22nd, 2020

Understanding the orographic development of the Tibetan Plateau through time is essential to the UMBRELLA project and measuring past landscape height is core to that understanding. It is the shape and height of the land surface that interacts with the atmosphere that in turn affects climate, vegetation type and drainage patterns, all of which feedback …