About TBASS
Tibet Academy of Social Sciences
The federation's centre for high-altitude strategic resources and technology: headwaters and glacial hydrology, lithium and geothermal provinces, and the engineering that functions at altitude.
Programs & centers
- Program on Headwaters & Glacial Hydrology
- Program on Lithium & Geothermal Provinces
- Program on High-Altitude Engineering
- Program on Environmental Security
- Plateau Systems Regional Center
- Remote Sensing & Field Instrumentation Unit
Publications
- Plateau Systems Quarterly — analysis of headwater, energy and infrastructure conditions (suspended)
- Altitude Technology Notes — short technical assessments of equipment and grid performance
Facilities
- Remote Sensing & Field Instrumentation Unit, with a multi-decade glacial and stream-gauge series
- High-altitude test record covering grid, storage and cold-chain equipment
- Working-paper and field-notebook archive, now held in trust by the foundation
Specialisms
- Glacial hydrology
- Lithium & geothermal
- High-altitude engineering
- Environmental security
Web address
tbass.org
Previously published at tbass.org.cn.
Institutional profile maintained by the foundation. TBASS is independent of Chinese state and Party research institutes and has never been a government body.