Linking Atmospheric Pollution to Cryospheric Changes over the Third Pole

Qianggong Zhang1,2, Shichang Kang2,3, Zhenming Ji1, Yang Li1, Jizu Chen3, Guoshuai Zhang1, Chaoliu Li1, Zhiyuan Cong1, Pengfei Chen4, Junming Guo1, Jie Huang1, Lekhendra Tripathee3, Dipesh Rupakheti1, Xiaofei Li3, Yulan Zhang5, Arnico K Panday6 and Maheswar Rupakheti7, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (4)State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (5)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science and Frozen Soil Engineering, Lanzhou, China, (6)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (7)Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany