Using remote sensing technology to monitor salt lake changes caused by climate change and melting glaciers: insights from Zabuye Salt Lake in Xizang

Tingyue LIU; Jingjing DAI; Yuanyi ZHAO; Shufang TIAN; Zhen NIE; Chuanyong YE

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Using remote sensing technology to monitor salt lake changes caused by climate change and melting glaciers: insights from Zabuye Salt Lake in Xizang

Special Section on Salt Lake Research | Updated：2024-10-14

- Using remote sensing technology to monitor salt lake changes caused by climate change and melting glaciers: insights from Zabuye Salt Lake in Xizang
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 41, Issue 4, Pages: 1258-1276(2023)
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  1.School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
  2.Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China
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  daijingjing863@sina.com
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- Received：30 April 2022，
  
  Accepted：09 June 2022，
  
  Online First：15 August 2022，
  
  Published：01 July 2023
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LIU Tingyue,DAI Jingjing,ZHAO Yuanyi,et al.Using remote sensing technology to monitor salt lake changes caused by climate change and melting glaciers: insights from Zabuye Salt Lake in Xizang[J].Journal of Oceanology and Limnology,2023,41(04):1258-1276.
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LIU Tingyue,DAI Jingjing,ZHAO Yuanyi,et al.Using remote sensing technology to monitor salt lake changes caused by climate change and melting glaciers: insights from Zabuye Salt Lake in Xizang[J].Journal of Oceanology and Limnology,2023,41(04):1258-1276. DOI：

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Zabuye Salt Lake (ZSL) in Xizang is the only saline lake in the world with natural crystalline lithium carbonate. As it is an important lithium production base in China

any changes of this lake are concerning. Global climate change (CC) has affected the hydrological conditions of glaciers

lakes

and ecosystems in the Tibetan Plateau (TP). With the aim of monitoring dynamic hydrological changes in ZSL and Lunggar Glaciers (LG) to identify factors governing lake changes

and to estimate the potential damage to grasslands and salt pans

Landsat remote sensing (RS) and meteorological data were used to do a series of experiments and analysis. Firstly

according to the spectral characteristics (SC)

salt lake

glaciers

grasslands

and salt pans around the salt lake were extracted by band calculation (BC). Secondly

basin and water areas of the expanded lake were estimated using a shuttle radar topography mission (SRTM) digital elevation model (DEM). Thirdly

comprehensive analyses of lake and glacier area changes

and regional meteorological factors (annual average temperature

annual precipitation

and evaporation) were performed

and the results show that ZSL expanded at a rate of 5.28 km

it is likely to continue expanding. Expansion was closely related to the large-scale melting of a glacier caused by rising temperatures. Continued lake expansion (LE) will exert different effects on surrounding grasslands and salt pans

7.84 km

of grassland and 2.7 km

of salt pan will be submerged with every meter of water increase in the lake. Similar prediction methods was used to monitor other lakes on the TP. Mami Co

Selin Co

and Chaerhan sa

lt lakes all expanded at different rates

and may potentially cause different levels of potential harm to surrounding grasslands and roads. Our study contributes to salt lake research and demonstrates the superiority of RS technology for monitoring saline lakes.

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