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The determination of hydrological changes that have occurred in these lakes can reflect climate change and supply scientific data to plateau environmental research. Data from high frequency (moderate-resolution imaging spectro-radiometer) MODIS images, altimetry, and the Hydroweb database collected during 2000\u20132015 were integrated in this study to delineate the detailed hydrological changes of 15 lakes in three basins\u2014Inner Basin, Indus Basin, and Brahmaputra Basin\u2014on the southern Tibetan Plateau. Seven of the 10 lakes in the Inner Basin presented increasing trends with various intensities, and the increasing rates in the area of four lakes (Nam Co, Selin Co, Zhari-namco, and Ngangze) were 1.62, 28.81, 2.27, and 3.70 km2\/yr, respectively. The yearly increases in volume of the four lakes were 3.6, 9.44, 6, and 2.36 km3, respectively. A water balance equation was established for the four lakes based on lake volume changes to illustrate the contributions of precipitation, ground runoff, evaporation, and other factors. The results revealed that surface runoff was the major contributor to expansion, and lake surface evaporation was almost 2.76\u20133.86 times that of lake surface precipitation. The two lakes in Indus Basin, Rakshastal and Mapam Yumco, presented a slight retreat. As a representative of Brahmaputra Basin, Yamzho Yumco underwent a retreat of \u20133.49 km2\/yr in area, \u20130.39 m\/yr in level, and \u20130.19 km3\/yr in volume. Decreasing precipitation, increasing evaporation, and the operation of a hydrological project were the main causes of its constant retreat.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12203450","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,20]],"date-time":"2020-10-20T09:28:23Z","timestamp":1603186103000},"page":"3450","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Changing Patterns of Lakes on The Southern Tibetan Plateau Based on Multi-Source Satellite Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Fangdi","family":"Sun","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geography and Remote Sensing, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4485-4636","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ronghua","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China"}]},{"given":"Bin","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-Environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-Environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China"},{"name":"National-Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangzhou 510650, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaoli","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China"}]},{"given":"Yuchao","family":"Zeng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-Environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-Environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China"},{"name":"National-Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangzhou 510650, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1928-5766","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Siyi","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-Environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-Environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China"},{"name":"National-Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangzhou 510650, China"}]},{"given":"Shilin","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Guangdong Key Laboratory of Ocean Remote Sensing, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"171","DOI":"10.1007\/s11434-013-0045-0","article-title":"Monitoring dynamic changes of global land cover types: Fluctuations of major lakes in China every 8 days during 2000\u20132010","volume":"59","author":"Sun","year":"2014","journal-title":"Chin. 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