What climate does Tibet belong to? What climate does Tibet belong to? What are its characteristics?

The climate in Tibet has the following characteristics:

The air is thin, the air pressure is low and the oxygen content is low.

Strong solar radiation and long sunshine time. Because of the high altitude, thin air, low dust and water vapor content and high transparency in Tibet Plateau, the sun loses less energy when it passes through the atmosphere, so its radiation is stronger. Tibet is the place with the largest solar radiation energy in China. The total radiation in Lhasa is 1.95 kcal/cm2, while that in Chengdu with similar latitude is only 88 kcal/cm2. Shanghai is 1 13 kcal/cm2. The sunshine hours in Tibet Plateau are far more than those in other parts of China at the same latitude. For example, the sunshine hours in Lhasa are 302 1 hour, Chengdu is 1 186 hours, and Shanghai is 1932 hours.

Due to the high terrain of Tibet Plateau, the temperature is much lower than that of the Yangtze River basin at the same latitude, and the daily temperature difference is large.

The whole year is divided into obvious dry season and rainy season. Under the alternating control of winter west wind and summer southwest monsoon, the division between dry season and rainy season in Tibet is very obvious. Generally, the dry season is 10 to April, and the rainy season is from May to September.

The climate type is complex and varies greatly vertically. Tibet is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, and its altitude has dropped from about 5,000 meters to several hundred meters. Therefore, the climate types from southeast to northwest are tropical, subtropical, plateau temperate zone, plateau frigid zone and so on. In the alpine valleys of southeastern Tibet and the southern slope of the Himalayas, due to the rising terrain, the temperature gradually drops, and the climate changes from tropical or subtropical climate to temperate zone, cold temperate zone and cold zone.