The 2nd International Workshop on Energy and Water Cycle over the Tibetan Plateau and High-elevations was held at Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, from July 19 to 21, 2010. The workshop, hosted by the ITP, attracted over 150 experts from home and abroad, witnessing 49 oral presentations and 22 posters for academic exchanges.

The opening ceremony of the workshop at Lhasa

During the workshop, such issues were thoroughly discussed as the observation systems on the Tibetan Plateau, satellite retrieval and data assimilation, ground water-heat process, physical and dynamical processes of land-atmosphere interaction, and the impacts of climate changes on cryosphere and ecology. The workshop gathered outstanding professors in the study of energy and water cycle on the Tibetan Plateau, summarizing the latest discoveries and achievement to facilitate the understanding of the Third Pole environment. 

Visit of participating experts before or after the workshop to the ITP campus at Lhasa, as well as monitoring stations at Nam Co and Qomolangma made them realize the necessity to cooperate in utilizing these in-situ data to verify modeling or relevant hypotheses.

Bureau of International Cooperation, CAS, and National Natural Science Foundation of China jointly funded the workshop. And Cold and Arid Region Environment and Engineering Research Institute co-sponsored the workshop, together with Beijing Normal University.