In the past two years of the CEOP-TPE project, a number of progresses have been made. 1. The Tibetan Plateau SM & ST Observatory [1-3] has been further maintained and upgraded. 2. An assessment of ECMWF land surface analysis over the Tibetan plateau [4] has been conducted. 3. A blended soil moisture product over the Tibetan Plateau [5] has been generated. 4. A 10-year (2001–2010) land surface energy balance product for climate and ecohydrological studies has been developed [6,7] and on the basis of this data set it is concluded that the Tibetan plateau is a heating source for the atmosphere in particular in winter months. 5. A method for the quantification of water cycle components based on earth observation data and a comparison to reanalysis data has been developed. An analysis of the Yangtze river basin is preliminarily carried out and concluded that human influences are important in shorter terms, but climate influences seem dominate over direct human influences over longer terms.
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