Distribution of glaciers and permafrost in China

July 15, 2009 China Climate Change and Poverty - China Case Study released by the China Academy of Agricultural Science and Technology on Agricultural Environment and Sustainability, China, pointed out: Based on the glacier retreat rule and the forecast of future summer temperature and precipitation changes. By 2050, the average glacier area in western China will be 27.2% less than that of the present. The area of glacier is 52.5%, that of subcontinental glacier is 24.4% and that of extreme continental glacier is 13.8%. With the climate surface warm. Seasonal snow in the western region will also reduce the snow in early spring, a large area of snow to melt, the amount of snow will be substantially reduced. In 2100, the Tibetan Plateau and Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and other places a wide range of snow will likely melt early in March, the spring drought intensifies, snow melt on glacial runoff regulation greatly reduced, the northern China tends to drought, with greenhouse gas concentration , The area of each climate type area showed an increasing trend, and the increase of extreme arid and sub-humid arid area was the biggest, which would affect the expansion of desertification.

The map comes from the "China Geographic Atlas" in China glacial and frozen soil distribution