**Lei Zhong**

Prof. Dr. Lei Zhong is a Professor at the School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China. He received his PhD degree in Natural Geography in 2008 at Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main research interests are focused on land–atmosphere interaction, energy and water cycle, application of remote sensing, and monsoon climate. He won the National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2015. He received first prize for the Tibet Autonomous Region Science and Technology Award in 2022. He has been actively involved in major international cooperation programs, such as 'CAMP/Tibet' and the ESA-MOST Dragon program. He is a director of China Association for Scientific Exploration and Executive Youth Member of Editorial Board of Plateau Meteorology. He is also member of the IAMAS Youth Working Group.

### **Preface to "Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Effects on the Climate of the Tibetan Plateau and Surrounding Regions"**

This book focused on recent advances in land-atmosphere interactions and their effects on the climate change over the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding regions using multisource remote sensing data and in situ measurements.

Retrieval of land surface variables and surface heat fluxes, as well as change monitoring in snow, glaciers, lakes, and other land-surface covers are of particular interest. Special attention is given to retrieval of land-surface key properties, variations of land-surface heat fluxes, estimation of precipitation and evapotranspiration, change monitoring of glacier and lakes, the responses of lakes to climate change, carbon, water and heat exchange in terrestrial ecosystems, risk assessment of snow disasters, estimation of turbulence characteristics, vegetation dynamics and its response to weather and climate.

This book was funded by the the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) Program, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (Grant No. 2019QZKK0103); the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDA20060101); National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42230610, 91837208, 41875031).

> **Yaoming Ma, Li Jia, Massimo Menenti, and Lei Zhong** *Editors*

### *Editorial* **Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Effects on the Climate of the Tibetan Plateau and Surrounding Regions**

**Yaoming Ma 1,2,3,4,5,6, Lei Zhong 7,8,9,10,\*, Li Jia 11 and Massimo Menenti 11,12**


11 Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China 12 DepartmentofGeoscienceandRemoteSensing,TechnischeUniversiteitDelft,

