Gridded Monthly Temperature Lapse Rates of the Tibetan Plateau- A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles

1) Data content (including elements and meanings): Gridded multiyear-average monthly air temperature lapse rate data over the Tibetan Plateau at three kinds of resolutions (i.e. 0.25°, 0.75° and 2°)

2) Data source and processing method: Locally reliable temperature lapse rates are created from filtered MODIS LST-elevation samples by using the thresholds of standard error of elevation and correlation coefficient

3) Data quality description: For ERA-Interim, the validation accuracy (based on 1980-2014 daily mean aire temperature records from 113 stations across the Tibetan Plateau) decreases from ~4℃ to ~2℃ after using the 0.75° temperaturel lapse rate.

4) Data application results and prospects: This dataset can be used for downscaling air temperature from multiple reanalysis datasets.

File naming and required software

In geotiff format which can be read directly by mutiple GIS softwares (such as Arcgis and Qgis)

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Zhang, F., Zhang, H. (2019). Gridded Monthly Temperature Lapse Rates of the Tibetan Plateau. A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, DOI: 10.11888/Meteoro.tpdc.270211. CSTR: 18406.11.Meteoro.tpdc.270211. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

Related Literatures:

1. Zhang, H., Zhang, F., Zhang, G., Che, T., & Yan, W. (2018). How accurately can the air temperature lapse rate over the Tibetan Plateau be estimated from MODIS LSTs?. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(8), 3943-3960.( View Details | Bibtex)

2. Zhang, H.B, Immerzeel, W.W., Zhang*, F., De Kok, R.J., Gorrie, S.J., & Ye, M. (2021). Creating 1-km long-term (1980–2014) daily average air temperatures over the Tibetan Plateau by integrating eight types of reanalysis and land data assimilation products downscaled with MODIS-estimated temperature lapse rates based on machine learning. International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation (accepted).( View Details | Bibtex)

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Support Program

Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (Grant No. 2019QZKK0203)

National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41701079)

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