This data set comes from the book: glaciers in Hengduan Mountain area, which belongs to the series of scientific investigation in Hengduan Mountain Area of Qinghai Tibet Plateau. The chief editor is Li Jijun, the deputy chief editor is Su Zhen, and the guiding unit is Institute of geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The research team of the book is the Qinghai Tibet Plateau comprehensive research team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the publishing house is Science Press. Due to abundant rainfall and deep snow cover in some areas of Hengduan Mountain. Avalanche, wind blown snow and abnormal snowfall have become a common natural disaster, which has caused great damage to the work and life of local residents. This book makes a detailed record of the snow disaster in Hengduanshan area. The data includes two workbooks and two pictures, which are the statistical table of snow damage status and damage degree, the regional characteristics of avalanche, the topographic cutting degree map of Western Sichuan, Northern Yunnan and southeastern Tibet, and the damage scope map of Hengduanshan avalanche.

The distribution data of permafrost in the source area of the Yellow River is established based on the annual average ground temperature model of permafrost in the source area of the Yellow River. The annual average ground temperature of 0 ℃ is taken as the standard and boundary for dividing seasonal frozen soil and permafrost. Compared with the available permafrost maps of the source region of the Yellow River (1:3 million) and the permafrost background survey project of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau (1:1 million), the data set is based on the measured data of the Yellow River source area, which has higher consistency with the measured data, and the simulation accuracy of the permafrost distribution map is the highest. The data set can be used to verify the distribution of permafrost in the source area of the Yellow River, as well as to study the frozen soil environment.

As an important part of global semi-arid grassland, adequately understanding the spatio-temporal variability of evapotranspiration (ET) over the temperate semi-arid grassland of China (TSGC) could advance our understanding of climate, hydrological and ecological processes over global semi-arid areas. Based on the largest number of in-situ ET measurements (13 flux towers) within the TSGC, we applied the support vector regression method to develop a high-quality ET dataset at 1 km spatial resolution and 8-day timescale for the TSGC from 1982 to 2015. The model performed well in validation against flux tower‐measured data and comparison with water-balance derived ET.

Kara batkak glacier meteorological station in West Tianshan, Kyrgyzstan (42 ° 9'46 ″ n, 78 ° 16'21 ″ e, 3280m). The observation data include hourly meteorological elements (hourly rainfall (mm), instantaneous wind direction (°), instantaneous wind speed (M / s), 2-minute wind direction (°), 2-minute wind speed (M / s), 10 minute wind direction (°), 10 minute wind speed (M / s), wind direction at maximum wind speed (°), maximum wind speed (M / s), maximum wind speed time, wind direction at maximum wind speed (°), and maximum wind speed (M / s) , maximum wind speed time, maximum instantaneous wind speed and wind direction in minutes (°), maximum instantaneous wind speed in minutes (M / s), air pressure (HPA), maximum air pressure (HPA), maximum air pressure occurrence time, minimum air pressure (HPA), minimum air pressure occurrence time). Meteorological observation elements, after accumulation and statistics, are processed into climate data to provide important data for planning, design and research of agriculture, forestry, industry, transportation, military, hydrology, medical and health, environmental protection and other departments.

Kara batkak glacier meteorological station in Western Tianshan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan (42 ° 9'46 ″ n, 78 ° 16'21 ″ e, 3280m). The observation data include hourly meteorological elements (temperature (℃), maximum temperature (℃), time of maximum temperature occurrence, minimum temperature (℃), minimum temperature occurrence time, 0.1mm hourly rainfall (mm), 0.5mm hourly rainfall (mm), instantaneous wind direction (°), instantaneous wind speed (M / S), 2-minute wind direction (°), 2-minute wind speed (M / s), 10 minute wind speed (M / s), maximum wind direction (°), maximum wind speed (°), maximum wind speed (°) Major wind speed (M / s), maximum wind speed time, wind direction (°), maximum wind speed (M / s), maximum wind speed time, maximum instantaneous wind speed and direction (°), maximum instantaneous wind speed (M / s), relative humidity (%), minimum relative humidity (%), occurrence time of minimum relative humidity, water pressure (HPA), dew point temperature (℃), air pressure (HPA), sea level pressure (HPA), maximum pressure (HPA) The time of the highest air pressure, the lowest pressure (HPA) and the lowest air pressure (time). Meteorological observation elements are processed into climatic data after accumulation and statistics, providing important data for planning, design and research of agriculture, forestry, industry, transportation, military, hydrology, medical and health care and environmental protection departments.

Kara batkak glacier weather station in Western Tianshan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan (42 ° 9'46 ″ n, 78 ° 16'21 ″ e, 3280m). The observational data include hourly meteorological elements (hourly rainfall (mm), instantaneous wind direction (°), instantaneous wind speed (M / s), 2-minute wind direction (°), 2-minute wind speed (M / s), 10 minute wind direction (°), 10 minute wind speed (M / s), maximum wind direction (°), maximum wind speed (M / s), maximum wind speed time, maximum wind direction (°), maximum wind speed (M / s), maximum wind speed time, maximum instantaneous wind speed within minutes) Direction (°), maximum instantaneous wind speed in minutes (M / s), air pressure (HPA), maximum air pressure (HPA), time of maximum air pressure, time of minimum air pressure (HPA), time of minimum air pressure. Meteorological observation elements, after accumulation and statistics, are processed into climate data to provide important data for planning, design and research of agriculture, forestry, industry, transportation, military, hydrology, medical and health, environmental protection and other departments.

This data set includes the temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction and other daily values in the observation point of Kunsha Glacier. The data is observed from October 3, 2015 to September 19, 2017. It is measured by automatic meteorological station (Onset Company) and a piece of data is recorded every 2 hours. The original data forms a continuous time series after quality control, and the daily mean index data is obtained through calculation. The original data meets the accuracy requirements of China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) for meteorological observation. Quality control includes eliminating the systematic error caused by the missing point data and sensor failure. The data is stored as an excel file.

This data is the simulated data of glacier distribution in the alpine region of Asia since the last glacial maximum, It includes the annual resolution glacier area change sequence of typical regions (High mountain Asia, Tianshan Mountains, Himalayas and Pamir Plateau) and typical periods (LGM (20000 ~ 19000ka), HS1 (17000 ~ 16000ka), BA (~ 14900 ~ 14350ka), yd (12900 ~ 12000ka), eh (9500 ~ 8500ka), MH (6500 ~ 5500ka), LH (3500 ~ 2500ka) and modern (1951 ~ 1990)) 1 km resolution glacier distribution in High Mountain Asia. This data are created by taking the trace full forcing simulation based on ccsm3 climate model as the external forcing field to drive the 1 km resolution PISM ice sheet model. This data can be used to study the changes of glacier distribution in the alpine region of Asia since the last glacial maximum and its impact on environmental and climatic factors such as lake water level, runoff and landform.

Snow, ice, and glaciers have the highest albedo of any part of Earth's surface. The increase in melting of the polar ice sheet results in a rapid and sequential decrease in albedo and subsequently influences the global energy balance. The hydrological system derived from surface melt and basal meltwater will affect the dynamic stability of ice sheet and therefore mass balance. The dataset combined microwave radiometer product and optical albedo product, the daily, winter (June-August) averages and July averages of the former are used for layer-stacking, then Gram-Schmidt Spectral Sharpening was adapted to fuse the layer-stacking results with MODIS GLASS albedo product. The spatial resolution of fusion-results has been downscaled from 25 km to 0.05˚. By employing a threshold-based melt detection approach for each fusion-results pixel, Antarctic ice sheet surface melt daily product for 1985-1986, 2000-2001, 2015-2016 (DSSMIS) was generated. The spatial resolution of DSSMIS is higher than that of published data sets at home and abroad. Combined with the advantages of radiometer and albedo data, the spatial details characteristics are enhanced and consistent with the extraction range of the original radiometer products, effectively reducing the noise of the radiometer. It better reflects the melting gradient of mountainous area, groundline area and ice shelf over time, DSSMIS has a higher accuracy. DSSMIS’s data type is integer, where 1 is melted, 0 is not melted, 255 is masked area besides Antarctic ice sheet, and the data set is stored as *.nc.

The data set mainly includes the investigation data set of geological disasters, pavement diseases and bridge and culvert diseases along Qinghai Tibet highway g109, Qinghai Tibet railway and Xinzang highway G219. The investigation time is August 12, 2020 - August 19, 2020, and July 26, 2021 - August 15, 2021. The survey objects are South Asia channel and Himalayan Mountain project. The types of diseases investigated mainly include geological disasters induced by freeze-thaw (rockfall, dangerous rock mass, debris flow gully and debris slope), pavement crack diseases, loose diseases, pit diseases, subgrade deformation diseases, bridge and culvert diseases, etc. The method of manual investigation shall be adopted to observe the damage of various diseases, and the quantity (range), damage degree and location of various damage types of pavement, bridge and culvert and geological disasters shall be recorded in detail as required. The data set can provide a basis for a comprehensive understanding of the freeze-thaw diseases of South Asia channel and Himalayan mountain projects and related research.

The observation data are from the Khunjerab gradient meteorological observation and test station on Pamir Plateau built by Urumqi desert Meteorological Institute of China Meteorological Administration in 2017, including the gradient data of various meteorological elements. The data period is from November 18, 2019 to October 8, 2021. The *. Xlsx format obtained by using toa5 merging tool and MS office has good data quality. This data can provide support for the research on the law of surface radiation and energy budget in Pamir Plateau and China Pakistan Economic Corridor, and provide reference basis for land surface process. Khunjerab meteorological station is located in the Pamir Plateau of China, with an altitude of 4600m, close to the border between China and Pakistan, and the data is extremely precious.

This dataset contains the glacier outlines in Qilian Mountain Area in 2020. The dataset was produced based on classical band ratio criterion and manual editing. Chinese GF series images collected in 2020 were used as basic data for glacier extraction. Google images and Map World images were employed as reference data for manual adjusting. The dataset was stored in SHP format and attached with the attributions of coordinates, glacier ID and glacier area. Consisting of 1 season, the dataset has a spatial resolution of 2 meters. The accuracy is about 1 pixel (±2 meter). The dataset directly reflects the glacier distribution within the Qilian Mountain in 2020, and can be used for quantitative estimation of glacier mass balance and the quantitative assessment of glacier change’s impact on basin runoff.