After a one-year-long preparation, the work to construct a
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) station in Linzhi (Nyingchi)
Prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region to monitor the
evaporating process and alpine landscape on the "Roof of the World"
is to be complete by July 20.
With an objective of monitoring the transmission of water and
heat properties in alpine regions and its influence on landscape,
the station is to provide complete basic data about mountain
vertical belts under global change and related environmental
effect. Its work would also facilitate local ecological and
economical development, as well as the environmental and social
construction.
The station has now acquired a 30-acre field for scientific
research. Once completed, it will consist of three sections
involving observation field, living area and nearby observation
spots.
In the observation field, regular ground meteorological
observation equipment will be set up to collect precipitation.
While in the nearby observation spots, sustained monitoring of
forest line and tree growth will be conducted on east and west
slopes of Mt. Sejila. Moreover, glacial mobility variation will be
regularly monitored in Bomi. Meanwhile, Yigong Lake will also be
subject to persistent monitoring for its stability. Two
hundred-square- meter open field will be used as premises to house
guests, on-site staff.
It is estimated that the station, if function fully, can
accommodate 30 experts in the fields of atmospheric, alpine
landscape and glacier monitoring.
(CAS.cn June 17, 2006)
