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MARCC (Mongolia: Assessment Report on Climate Change) (2009) Ministry of Environment, Nature and Tourism, Mongolia.

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• TITLE: Climate-Driven Changes in Lake Areas for the Last Half Century in the Valley of Lakes, Govi Region, Southern Mongolia

  AUTHORS: Alexander Orkhonselenge, Goro Komatsu, Munkhjargal Uuganzaya

  KEYWORDS: Lakes, Lake Areas, Climate Change, Govi Region, Southern Mongolia

  JOURNAL NAME: Natural Science, Vol.10 No.7, July 26, 2018

  ABSTRACT: This study presents the changes in lake areas in the Valley of Lakes, the Govi region, southern Mongolia. The recent changes in lake areas show decreases depending on vulnerability of lake basins and response of Govi landscape to the present climatic warming. During the recent 44 - 45 years (from 1970 to 2014 or 2015), modern lakes have encountered the present rapid increase in temperature, water evaporation and drying up that induced the reduction in lake areas in the Valley of Lakes. The finding of the reduction in lake areas is consistent with the trends on increasing in temperature since 1995 and fluctuating precipitation since 1975. Investigations with detailed chronology of lake sediment are needed from the lakes to review a more complete evolution of lake basins during the Late Quaternary paleoclimatic history in Mongolia and Central Asia.