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Anthropogenic and Climate-Induced Water Storage Dynamics over the Past Two Decades in the China-Mongolia Arid Region Adjacent to Altai Mountain

Yan, Yingjie, Su, Yuan, Zhou, Hongfei, Wang, Siyu, Yao, Linlin, and Batmunkh, Dashlkham, 2025. Anthropogenic and Climate-Induced Water Storage Dynamics over the Past Two Decades in the China-Mongolia Arid Region Adjacent to Altai Mountain. Remote Sensing, 17(11):1949, doi:10.3390/rs17111949.

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@ARTICLE{2025RemS...17.1949Y,
       author = {{Yan}, Yingjie and {Su}, Yuan and {Zhou}, Hongfei and {Wang}, Siyu and {Yao}, Linlin and {Batmunkh}, Dashlkham},
        title = "{Anthropogenic and Climate-Induced Water Storage Dynamics over the Past Two Decades in the China-Mongolia Arid Region Adjacent to Altai Mountain}",
      journal = {Remote Sensing},
     keywords = {terrestrial water storage, drivers, human interventions, GRACE (FO) satellites, climate change},
         year = 2025,
        month = jun,
       volume = {17},
       number = {11},
          eid = {1949},
        pages = {1949},
     abstract = "{The China-Mongolia arid region adjacent to the Altai Mountain (CMA) has
        a sensitive ecosystem that relies heavily on both terrestrial
        water (TWS) and groundwater storage (GWS). However, during the
        2003-2016 period, the CMA experienced significant glacier
        retreat, lake shrinkage, and grassland degradation. To
        illuminate the TWS and GWS dynamics in the CMA and the dominant
        driving factors, we employed high-resolution (0.1{\textdegree})
        GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) data generated
        through random forest (RF) combined with residual correction.
        The downscaled data at a 0.1{\textdegree} resolution illustrate
        the spatial heterogeneity of TWS and GWS depletion. The highest
        TWS and GWS decline rates were both on the north slope of the
        Tianshan River Basin (NTRB) of the Junggar Basin of Northwestern
        China (JBNWC) (27.96 mm/yr and -32.98 mm/yr, respectively).
        Human impact played a primary role in TWS decreases in the
        JBNWC, with a relative contribution rate of 62.22\% compared to
        the climatic contribution (37.78\%). A notable
        shift{\textemdash}from climatic (2002-2010) to anthropogenic
        factors (2011-2020){\textemdash}was observed as the primary
        driver of TWS decline in the Great Lakes Depression region of
        western Mongolia (GLDWM). To maintain ecological stability and
        promote sustainable regional development, effective action is
        urgently required to save essential TWS from further depletion.}",
          doi = {10.3390/rs17111949},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025RemS...17.1949Y},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

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