**Preface**

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 quantitative assessments of land surface temperature, sensible heat flux, soil moisture, vegetation and drought indices, groundwater storage, runoff, condensation, and desublimation, as well as the distinct surface processes over lakes and glaciers coupling with climate warming.

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 National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 42375071, 42230610 and 41875031) and CLIMATE-Pan-TPE (ID 58516) in the framework of the ESA-MOST Dragon 5 program.

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