Tibet+-+Climate+and+Geographic+Factors



 

**Temperatures and Climate [2] **   **General Geographic Structure [1] **   **Elevation/Mountains [1] **  
 * Tibet is generally dry. Most of Tibet only gets 18 inches (460 mm) of precipitation (rain and snow) a year. Most of which comes in the summer months.
 * Precipitation decreases from south to north.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Humidity is low.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Fog is nearly nonexistent.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Daily maximum temperature: 30 ˚C
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Daily minimum temperature: -19 ˚C
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Temperatures at higher elevations are colder, lower valleys and south-east warmer.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Relatively constant climate year-round. Small seasonal variation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">On a plateau averaging 4,500 m above sea level, it is the highest region in the world.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Three main regions of Tibet: Zangbo Valley, Chang Tang, Kham
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Lhasa, capital city, placed in Zangbo Valley
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Chang Tang is the northern plain, containing many salt lakes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Kham eastern Tibet
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Great Tibetan plateau, called Chang Thang (Northern Plain), stretches 1,300 km. Surrounded on all sides by mountain ranges.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">In Eastern Tibet, series of mountain ranges running north-to-south separate Tibet from China.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Kunlun Mountains, northern Tibet, average 5,500–6,000 meters in elevation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Both Kunlun and Himalaya run east-to-west, as does the Kailas range, parallel to the Himalaya in southern Tibet for several hundred miles.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">The Karakoram range runs across western Tibet.

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Winds [2] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Cold temperatures in early morning and night caused by the gale winds that blow throughout most of the year.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Gale winds descend from Himalayas.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Himalayas protect from Monsoon Winds.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Strong weather systems develop in the west due to colliding masses of air at various altitudes.



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 * Works Cited:**

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">[1] "Tibet (Xizang)." Encyclopedia Americana. 2009. Grolier Online. 4 May 2009 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"> __// **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">< ** // <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">[|__//**http://ea.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0386030-01**//__]  // **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">>. ** //__ <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">[2] "Tibet." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 03 May. 2009 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"> __// **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">< ** // <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">[|__//**http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/594898/Tibet**//__]  // **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">>. ** //__<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">

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