Analyzing the surface height of Nam Co by using CryoTrack

Abstract

In recent decades, the global climate change is increasingly accelerating and intensifying. The plateau climate is an important part of the global climate. In this thesis, we will take the plateau lake Nam Co as an object to research and analyze the climatic variation in this area. Since Nam Co is located in Tibet Plateau with a high elevation and it doesn’t have too much human disturbance, it is an ideal study object to observe. In this thesis, we will use the data from the satellite CryoSat-2 and the software CryoTrack to obtain the surface height of Nam Co as well as the trend of the water level variation of it. Meanwhile, by using CryoTrack we can also observe the frozen and breakup time of the lake ice.