Tibetan Plateau Landscape (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Tibetan Plateau Landscape

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The Tibetan Plateau is an area of about 2.5 million square kilometers in which summertime high temperatures seldom rise above 25 degrees Celsius and nighttime temperatures could drop below freezing even in the summer.

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Credit: Xian Yang and Qianna Xu

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