Different forms of precipitation (snow, sleet, and rain) have divergent effects on the Earth’s surface water and energy fluxes. Therefore, discriminating between these forms is of significant importance, especially under a changing climate. We applied a state-of-the-art parameterization scheme with wet-bulb temperature, relative humidity, surface air pressure, and elevation as inputs, as well as observational gridded datasets with a maximum spatial resolution of 0.25◦, to generate a gridded dataset of different forms of daily precipitation (snow, sleet, and rain) and their temperature threshold across mainland China from 1961-2016. The annual snow, sleet, and rain amount were further calculated. The dataset may benefit various research communities, such as cryosphere science, hydrology, ecology, and climate change.
SU Bo , ZHAO Hongyu
Mountain glaciers are important freshwater resources in Western China and its surrounding areas. It is at the drainage basin scale that mountain glaciers provide meltwater that humans exploit and utilize. Therefore, the determination of glacierized river basins is the basis for the research on glacier meltwater provisioning functions and their services. Based on the Randolph glacier inventory 6.0, Chinese Glacier Inventories, China's river basin classifications (collected from the Data Centre for Resources and Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences), and global-scale HydroBASINS (www.hydrosheds.org), the following dataset was generated by the intersection between river basins and glacier inventory: (1) Chinese glacierized macroscale and microscale river basins; (2) International glacierized macroscale river basin fed by China’s glaciers; (3) Glacierized macroscale river basin data across High Mountain Asia. This data takes the common river basin boundaries in China and the globe into account, which is poised to provide basic data for the study of historical and future glacier water resources in China and its surrounding areas.
SU Bo
Soil freezing depth (SFD) is necessary to evaluate the balance of water resources, surface energy exchange and biogeochemical cycle change in frozen soil area. It is an important indicator of climate change in the cryosphere and is very important to seasonal frozen soil and permafrost. This data is based on Stefan equation, using the daily temperature prediction data and E-factor data of canems2 (rcp45 and rcp85), gfdl-esm2m (rcp26, rcp45, rcp60 and rcp85), hadgem2-es (rcp26, rcp45 and rcp85), ipsl-cm5a-lr (rcp26, rcp45, rcp60 and rcp85), miroc5 (rcp26, rcp45, rcp60 and rcp85) and noresm1-m (rcp26, rcp45, rcp60 and rcp85), The data set of annual average soil freezing depth in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau with a spatial resolution of 0.25 degrees from 2007 to 2065 was obtained.
PAN Xiaoduo, LI Hu
The data set is the monthly average temperature data of China's multi scenario and multi-mode, with a spatial resolution of 0.0083333 ° (about 1km) from January 2021 to December 2100. The data is in NetCDF format. The data is generated in China through the delta spatial downscaling scheme according to the global > 100 km climate model data set released in the sixth phase of the IPCC coupled model comparison program (cmip6) and the global high-resolution climate data set released by worldclim. The data adopts the latest SSP scenarios (ssp119, ssp245, ssp585) released by IPCC. Each scenario contains three GCMS (ec-earth3, gfdl-esm4, mri-esm2-0) climate data. The geospatial range contained in the dataset is China's main land, excluding islands and reefs in the South China Sea. The unit is 0.1 ℃. The file name is GCM_ SSP_ Tmp-30s-serial number NC, 30s, i.e. 0.0083333 °, serial number from 1-40, serial number 1 represents 2021.1-2022.12, and represents the year in turn; Based on ec-earth3_ ssp119_ tmp-30s-1. NC file, for example, represents the monthly average temperature data of ec-earth3 climate model with 1km resolution from 2021.1 to 2022.12 under ssp119 scenario, including 24 layers. For a deeper understanding of the data, please refer to the data cited in the literature and the published papers of the authors.
PENG Shouzhang
This dataset consists of four files including (1) Lake ice thickness of 16 large lakes measured by satellite altimeters for 1992-2019 (Altimetric LIT for 16 large lakes.xlsx); (2) Daily lake ice thickness and lake surface snow depth of 1,313 lakes with an area > 50 km2 in the Northern Hemisphere modeled by a one-dimensional remote sensing lake ice model for 2003-2018 (in NetCDF format); (3) Future lake ice thickness and surface snow depth for 2071-2099 modeled by the lake ice model with a modified ice growth module (table S1.xlsx); (4) A lookup table containing lake IDs, names, locations, and areas. This daily lake ice and snow thickness dataset could provide a benchmark for the estimation of global lake ice and snow mass, thereby improving our understanding of the ecological and economical significance of freshwater ice as well as its response to climate change.
LI Xingdong, LONG Di, HUANG Qi, ZHAO Fanyu
Precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) known as Asia's water tower plays a critical role in regional water and energy cycles, largely affecting water availability for downstream countries. Rain gauges are indispensable in precipitation measurement, but are quite limited in the TP that features complex terrain and the harsh environment. Satellite and reanalysis precipitation products can provide complementary information for ground-based measurements, particularly over large poorly gauged areas. Here we optimally merged gauge, satellite, and reanalysis data by determining weights of various data sources using artificial neural networks (ANNs) and environmental variables including elevation, surface pressure, and wind speed. A Multi-Source Precipitation (MSP) data set was generated at a daily timescale and a spatial resolution of 0.1° across the TP for the 1998‒2017 period. The correlation coefficient (CC) of daily precipitation between the MSP and gauge observations was highest (0.74) and the root mean squared error was the second lowest compared with four other satellite products, indicating the quality of the MSP and the effectiveness of the data merging approach. We further evaluated the hydrological utility of different precipitation products using a distributed hydrological model for the poorly gauged headwaters of the Yangtze and Yellow rivers in the TP. The MSP achieved the best Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency coefficient (over 0.8) and CC (over 0.9) for daily streamflow simulations during 2004‒2014. In addition, the MSP performed best over the ungauged western TP based on multiple collocation evaluation. The merging method could be applicable to other data-scarce regions globally to provide high quality precipitation data for hydrological research. The latitude and longitude of the left bottom corner across the TP, the number of rows and columns, and grid cells information are all included in each ASCII file.
HONG Zhongkun , LONG Di
The water resource supply resilience of countries along the “Belt and Road” reflects the level of water supply resilience of countries along the route. The higher the data value, the stronger the resilience of water supply in countries along the route. Preparation of data products for water supply resilience of countries along the “Belt and Road”, using the annual precipitation, surface runoff and underground net data produced by FLDAS (Famine Early Warning System Network Land Data Assimilation System) based on the Noah land surface model from 2000 to 2019 The flow simulation data set, on the basis of considering the year-to-year changes, based on sensitivity and adaptability analysis, and through comprehensive diagnosis, prepared and generated water resource supply resilience products. The data set of water supply resilience of countries along the “Belt and Road” has important reference significance for analyzing and comparing the current status of water resources supply resilience in various countries.
XU Xinliang
The CO2 emission reduction resilience of the countries along the "Belt and Road" reflects the level of CO2 emission reduction resilience of the countries along the Belt and Road, and the higher the value of the data, the stronger the CO2 emission reduction resilience of the countries along the Belt and Road. The Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) was used to prepare data on the total CO2 emissions of the countries along the "Belt and Road" from 2000 to 2020, taking into account the year-on-year changes. Based on the sensitivity and adaptation analysis, a comprehensive diagnosis was made based on the annual data of the total CO2 emissions of the countries along the "Belt and Road" from 2000 to 2020, and a resilience product for CO2 emission reduction was prepared. "The data set of CO2 emission reduction resilience of countries along the Belt and Road is an important reference for the analysis and comparison of the current CO2 emission reduction resilience of countries.
XU Xinliang
The resilience of health care development in countries along the Belt and Road reflects the level of resilience of health care development in the countries along the Belt and Road, and the higher the value of the data, the stronger the resilience of health care development in the countries along the Belt and Road. The World Bank statistical database was used for the preparation of the health resilience data. Based on the year-on-year data of these four indicators, and taking into account the year-on-year changes of each indicator, the product of resilience in the development of healthcare conditions was prepared through comprehensive diagnosis based on sensitivity and adaptability analysis. "The Resilience in Health Care Development dataset for countries along the Belt and Road is an important reference for analysing and comparing the current resilience in health care development in each country.
XU Xinliang
The development resilience of social employment in the countries along the Belt and Road reflects the level of resilience of social employment in the countries along the Belt and Road, and the higher the value of the data, the stronger the development resilience of social employment in the countries along the Belt and Road. The data product of social employment development resilience is prepared by referring to the World Bank statistical database, using the year-by-year data of the ratio of total unemployment to total labour force in the countries along the Belt and Road from 2000 to 2019, and based on sensitivity and adaptability analysis by considering the year-by-year changes of each indicator. A comprehensive diagnostic was carried out to generate a resilience product for the development of social employment. "The data set on the resilience of social employment development in the countries along the Belt and Road is an important reference for analysing and comparing the resilience of the current population growth in each country.
XU Xinliang
The resilience of population growth in countries along the Belt and Road reflects the level of resilience of population growth in the countries along the Belt and Road, and the higher the value of the data, the stronger the resilience of population growth in the countries along the Belt and Road. The World Bank's statistical database was used to prepare the Resilience to Population Growth data product, which uses year-on-year data on the population of countries along the Belt and Road from 2000 to 2019. The Resilience to Population Growth product is based on sensitivity and adaptation analysis. Please refer to the documentation for the methodology of preparing the dataset. "The resilience dataset is an important reference for analysing and comparing the current resilience of population growth in countries along the Belt and Road.
XU Xinliang
The resilience of the population age structure of countries along the Belt and Road reflects the level of resilience of the population age structure of the countries along the Belt and Road, and the higher the value of the data, the stronger the resilience of the population age structure of the countries along the Belt and Road. The World Bank's statistical database was used to prepare the data on the resilience of population age structure, and the data on the proportion of children, the proportion of working-age population and the proportion of elderly population in the countries along the Belt and Road from 2000 to 2019 were used year by year. Based on the sensitivity and adaptability analysis, a comprehensive diagnosis was carried out to produce a resilience product for the age structure of the population. Please refer to the documentation for the methodology of preparing the data set. "The data set is an important reference for analysing and comparing the resilience of population age structures in countries along the Belt and Road.
XU Xinliang
The resilience of population urbanisation development in countries along the Belt and Road reflects the level of resilience of population urbanisation development in the countries along the Belt and Road, with higher values indicating stronger resilience of population urbanisation development in the countries along the Belt and Road. The data on the resilience of population urbanisation development are prepared with reference to the World Bank's statistical database, using year-on-year data on two indicators, namely the number of urban population and the number of population in urban agglomerations with a population of over one million, from 2000 to 2019, and based on sensitivity and adaptability analysis, taking into account the year-on-year changes of each indicator. Based on the sensitivity and adaptability analysis, the product of the resilience of population urbanisation development was prepared through comprehensive diagnosis. "The data set on the resilience of population urbanisation development in the countries along the Belt and Road is an important reference for analysing and comparing the resilience of population urbanisation development in various countries.
XU Xinliang
The resilience of education in Belt and Road countries reflects the level of resilience of education in the countries along the Belt and Road, and the higher the value, the stronger the resilience of education in the countries along the Belt and Road. The data on the resilience of educational conditions are prepared by referring to the World Bank's statistical database, using year-on-year data on four indicators - literacy rate, education expenditure, secondary school enrolment rate and tertiary enrolment rate - for countries along the Belt and Road from 2000 to 2019, and taking into account the year-on-year changes in each indicator. Based on the sensitivity and adaptability analysis, a comprehensive diagnosis was carried out to generate a resilience product for the development of education conditions. "The data set on the resilience of educational conditions in countries along the Belt and Road is an important reference for analysing and comparing the current resilience of educational conditions in each country.
XU Xinliang
The resilience of road traffic development in countries along the Belt and Road reflects the level of resilience of road traffic development in the countries along the Belt and Road, and the higher the value of the data, the stronger the resilience of road traffic development in the countries along the Belt and Road. The road traffic development resilience data product is prepared by referring to the World Bank statistical database, using the year-by-year data of four indicators, namely road mileage, railway mileage, air traffic and container terminal throughput of the countries along the "Belt and Road" from 2000 to 2019, and based on the year-by-year changes of each indicator, based on sensitivity Based on the sensitivity and adaptability analysis, the road traffic development resilience product is prepared through comprehensive diagnosis. The data set of road traffic development resilience of countries along the "Belt and Road" is an important reference for analysing and comparing the current road traffic development resilience of countries.
XU Xinliang
The Human Development Index (HDI) was developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Human Development Report 1990 to measure the level of economic and social development of the United Nations member countries. The HDI is a composite indicator based on three basic variables: life expectancy, educational attainment and quality of life, and is calculated according to a certain methodology. "The One Belt One Road (OBOR) human development resilience dataset is a comprehensive indicator of human development resilience in each country. "The human development resilience dataset for countries along the Belt and Road is a comprehensive diagnosis based on sensitivity and adaptability analysis using year-by-year data of the Human Development Index for countries along the Belt and Road from 2000 to 2020. The Human Development Resilience Indicator (HDRI) data was prepared based on sensitivity and adaptation analysis. Please refer to the documentation for the methodology of preparing the dataset. "The Human Development Resilience Dataset for countries along the Belt and Road is an important reference for analysing and comparing the current state of human development resilience in each country.
XU Xinliang
The GDP per capita growth resilience dataset for countries along the Belt and Road is a comprehensive reflection of the level of GDP per capita growth resilience of each country. The GDP per capita growth resilience dataset was prepared with reference to the World Bank's statistical database, using year-on-year data on GDP per capita (constant 2010 US dollars) for countries along the Belt and Road from 2000 to 2019, and based on sensitivity and adaptability analysis, taking into account the year-on-year changes of each indicator. Through a comprehensive diagnostic, a product on GDP per capita growth resilience was prepared. "The GDP per capita growth resilience dataset for countries along the Belt and Road is an important reference for analysing and comparing the current GDP per capita growth resilience of each country.
XU Xinliang
Macroeconomics refers to the entire national economy or the national economy as a whole, as well as its economic activities and operational status. "The data set of macroeconomic development resilience of countries along the Belt and Road reflects the level of macroeconomic development resilience of the countries along the Belt and Road, and the higher the data value, the stronger the macroeconomic development resilience of the countries along the Belt and Road. The macroeconomic development resilience dataset is prepared with reference to the World Bank's statistical database, using year-on-year changes in four indicators: GDP per capita, gross fixed capital formation as a percentage of GDP, inflation as measured by the GDP deflator, and total savings as a percentage of GDP for countries along the "Belt and Road" from 2000 to 2019. The macroeconomic development resilience product was prepared through a comprehensive diagnosis based on sensitivity and adaptability analysis, taking into account the year-on-year changes of each indicator. "The resilience dataset of macroeconomic development of countries along the Belt and Road is an important reference for analysing and comparing the resilience of macroeconomic development of various countries.
XU Xinliang
"The resilience of the domestic economic systems of the countries along the Belt and Road reflects the level of resilience of the domestic economic systems of each country, and the higher the value of the data, the stronger the resilience of the domestic economic systems of the countries along the Belt and Road. The resilience of domestic economic systems includes macroeconomic development resilience, industrial and service sector development resilience, and the data products are prepared with reference to the World Bank statistical database, using GDP per capita, gross fixed capital formation as a percentage of GDP, inflation as measured by GDP deflator, and gross savings as measured by GDP deflator for countries along the Belt and Road from 2000 to 2019. The resilience products of the domestic economic system are prepared through a comprehensive diagnosis based on sensitivity and adaptability analysis, taking into account the year-on-year changes of each indicator, using year-on-year data of six indicators: GDP per capita, gross fixed capital formation as a percentage of GDP, gross savings as a percentage of GDP, industrial value added as a percentage of GDP, and service value added as a percentage of GDP. "The resilience dataset of the domestic economic systems of the countries along the Belt and Road is an important reference for analysing and comparing the resilience of the domestic economic systems of various countries.
XU Xinliang
"The resilience dataset reflects the level of resilience of industrial and service development in the countries along the Belt and Road, and the higher the value, the stronger the resilience of industrial and service development in the countries along the Belt and Road. The resilience of industrial and service sector development data products are prepared with reference to the World Bank's statistical database, using the year-on-year changes of two indicators, namely the value added of industry as a percentage of GDP and the value added of service sector as a percentage of GDP, for countries along the Belt and Road from 2000 to 2019, and on the basis of considering the year-on-year changes of each indicator. Based on the sensitivity and adaptability analysis, a comprehensive diagnostic was prepared to generate products on the resilience of industrial and service sector development. "The resilience dataset of industrial and service sector development in countries along the Belt and Road is an important reference for analysing and comparing the current resilience of industrial and service sector development in each country.
XU Xinliang
"The Belt and Road countries' external trade system resilience dataset comprehensively reflects the level of resilience of each country's external trade system, and the higher the value of the data, the stronger the resilience of the external trade system of the countries along the Belt and Road. The World Bank's statistical database was used for the preparation of the external trade system resilience data, and the annual data of three indicators, namely the ratio of trade volume to gross national product (GDP), the annual growth rate of exports of goods and services, and the annual growth rate of imports of goods and services of countries along the Belt and Road, were used from 2000 to 2019. On the basis of the year-on-year changes in each indicator, a comprehensive diagnosis based on sensitivity and adaptability analysis was carried out to generate a resilience product for the foreign trade system. Please refer to the documentation for the methodology of preparing the data set. "The resilience dataset of the foreign trade system of countries along the Belt and Road is an important reference for analysing and comparing the current resilience of the foreign trade system of each country.
XU Xinliang
Ta (Near-surface air temperature) is an important physical parameter that reflects climate change. In order to obtain daily Ta data (Tmax, Tmin, and Tavg) with high spatial and temporal resolution in China, we fully analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of various existing data (reanalysis, remote sensing, and in situ data) ，Different Ta reconstruction models are constructed for different weather conditions, and we further improve data accuracy through building correction equations for different regions. Finally, a dataset of daily temperature (Tmax, Tmin, and Tavg) in China from 1979 to 2018 was obtained with a spatial resolution of 0.1° For Tmax, validation using in situ data shows that the root mean square error (RMSE) ranges from 0.86 °C to 1.78 °C, the mean absolute error (MAE) varies from 0.63 °C to 1.40 °C, and the Pearson coefficient (R2) ranges from 0.96 to 0.99. For Tmin, RMSE ranges from 0.78 °C to 2.09 °C, the MAE varies from 0.58 °C to 1.61 °C, and the R2 ranges from 0.95 to 0.99. For Tavg, RMSE ranges from 0.35 °C to 1.00 °C, the MAE varies from 0.27 °C to 0.68 °C, and the R2 ranges from 0.99 to 1.00. Furthermore, a variety of evaluation indicators were used to analyze the temporal and spatial variation trends of Ta, and the Tavg increase was more than 0.0 °C/a, which is consistent with the general global warming trend. In conclusion, this dataset had a high spatial resolution and reliable accuracy, which makes up for the previous missing temperature value (Tmax, Tmin, and Tavg) at high spatial resolution. This dataset also provides key parameters for the study of climate change, especially high-temperature drought and low-temperature chilling damage。
FANG Shu, MAO Kebiao
Freezing (thawing) index refers to the sum of all temperatures less than (greater than) 0 ℃ in a year. Surface freezing (thawing) index is an important parameter to measure the time and capacity of surface freezing (thawing), which can reflect the characteristics of regional freezing and thawing environment. Based on the modis-lst data product, which comes from the national Qinghai Tibet Plateau science data center, the data in the Sanjiang River Basin are read by MATLAB language, and combined with the calculation of freezing (thawing index) formula, the spatial distribution data set of surface freezing and thawing index of dynamic environmental factors outside the Sanjiang River basin (average from 2003 to 2015) is obtained. This data set can better reflect the ability of surface freezing and thawing in the Sanjiang River Basin, so as to reflect the characteristics of regional freezing and thawing environment, It provides important external dynamic environmental factors for the development of freeze-thaw landslide.
LIU Minghao
Aiming at the 179000 km2 area of the pan three rivers parallel flow area of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, InSAR deformation observation is carried out through three kinds of SAR data: sentinel-1 lifting orbit and palsar-1 lifting orbit. According to the obtained InSAR deformation image, it is comprehensively interpreted in combination with geomorphic and optical image features. A total of 949 active landslides below 4000m above sea level were identified. It should be noted that due to the difference of observation angle, sensitivity and observation phase of different SAR data, there are some differences in the interpretation of the same landslide with different data. The scope and boundary of the landslide need to be corrected with the help of ground and optical images. The concept of landslide InSAR recognition scale is different from the traditional spatial resolution and mainly depends on the deformation intensity. Therefore, some landslides with small scale but prominent deformation characteristics and strong integrity compared with the background can also be interpreted (with SAR intensity map, topographic shadow map and optical remote sensing image as ground object reference). The minimum interpretation area can reach several pixels. For example, a highway slope landslide with only 4 pixels is interpreted with reference to the highway along the Nujiang River.
YAO Xin
This data is a high-resolution soil freeze/thaw (F/T) dataset in the Qinghai Tibet Engineering Corridor (QTEC) produced by fusing sentinel-1 SAR data, AMSR-2 microwave radiometer data, and MODIS LST products. Based on the newly proposed algorithm, this product provides the detection results of soil F/T state with a spatial resolution of 100 m on a monthly scale. Both meteorological stations and soil temperature stations were used for results evaluation. Based on the ground surface temperature data of four meteorological stations provided by the national meteorological network, the overall accuracy of soil F/T detection products achieved 84.63% and 77.09% for ascending and descending orbits, respectively. Based on the in-situ measured 5 cm soil temperature data near Naqu, the average overall accuracy of ascending and descending orbits are 78.58% and 76.66%. This high spatial resolution F/T product makes up traditional coarse resolution soil F/T products and provides the possibility of high-resolution soil F/T monitoring in the QTEC.
ZHOU Xin , LIU Xiuguo , ZHOU Junxiong , ZHANG Zhengjia , CHEN Qihao , XIE Qinghua
This data uses a landslide hazard risk assessment model consisting of four modules: landslide hazard causative factors, landslide susceptibility model, exposed population and population casualty rate. The module of hazard-causing factors includes DEM, slope, rainfall, temperature, snow cover, GDP, and vegetation cover factors. The landslide hazard susceptibility model is a statistical analysis using a logistic regression model to obtain landslide susceptibility probability values. The population exposure module uses the landslide susceptibility values overlaid with population data. The population casualty rate module is based on the ratio of historical landslide casualties to the population exposed to landslides during the same period. Finally, by substituting the 2020 population data, the exposed population under different levels of landslide hazard susceptibility is calculated and multiplied with the historical period landslide hazard population casualty rate to assessIntegrated multi-hazard population risk in the peri-Himalayan and Asian water tower regions
WANG Ying
The dataset includes lake ice phenology information of 132 lakes across the Tibetan Plateau (with area larger than 40 km2) from 1978 to 2016 (freeze-up start date, freeze-up end date, break-up start date, break-up end, completely ice-duration and ice duration). The data set uses the combination of model and remote sensing to obtain the phenological information. Firstly, Using the average lake surface temperature extracted by MOD11A2 as calibration data, daily scale long-time series lake surface temperature series was simulated based on an improved lake semi-physical model (air2water). Then the temperature threshold of lake ice phenology was determined by the mod10a1 snow cover product. Compared with the existing research results and data sets, the correlation (R-square) is higher than 0.75. Combined with the advantages of remote sensing and numerical model, this dataset provides support for the analysis of water-air interface exchange, water or heat balance, biochemical processes and their response to climate change of lakes on a large spatio-temporal scale across the Tibetan Plateau.
GUO Linan , WU Yanhong, ZHENG Hongxing, ZHANG Bing , CHI Haojing , FAN Lanxin
This database includes slope, aspect and digital elevation model (DEM) data of Qinghai Tibet Plateau. The data comes from the 30m * 30m resolution numerical elevation model data downloaded from the geospatial data cloud website. Using the surface analysis function of ArcGIS software, the slope and aspect information of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau are extracted. The data has been rechecked and reviewed by many people, and its data integrity, position accuracy and attribute accuracy meet the standards, with excellent and reliable quality. As one of the engineering geological conditions, this data is the basic data for the research on the development law of major engineering disturbance disasters and major natural disasters in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau and the analysis of susceptibility, risk and risk.
QI Shengwen
The fluctuation of a single lake level is a comprehensive reflection of water balance within the basin, while the regional consistent fluctuations of lake level can indicate the change of regional effective moisture. Previous researches were mainly focused on reconstructing effective moisture by multiproxy analyses of lake sediments, but lacked the quantitative studies on regional effective moisture variation. This dataset exhibits the Holocene effective moisture change in typical lake regions of the Tibetan Plateau and East and Central Asia, including Qinghai Lake, Chen Co, Bangong Co, etc., by constructing a virtual lake system, based on a lake energy balance model, a lake water balance model and a transient climate evolution model. The simulation results provide a new perspective for exploring the evolution of lakes on the millennial scale.
LI Yu
The data is the phytoplankton data of 70 points in 26 lakes in Tibet in 2020. The sampling time is from August to September. The sampling method is the conventional phytoplankton sampling method. 1.5 liters of samples are collected, fixed by Lugo's solution, siphoned and concentrated after static precipitation, and the results are examined by inverted microscope. The data includes the density data of different phytoplankton of 77 species / genus in 10 categories, including diatom, green algae, cyanobacteria, dinoflagellate, naked algae, cryptoalgae, brown algae, brown algae and CHAROPHYTA. This data is original and unprocessed. The unit is piece / L. The data can be used to characterize the composition and abundance of phytoplankton in the open water areas of these lakes, and can also be used to calculate the diversity of phytoplankton communities in these lakes.
ZHANG Min
Glacial mass balance is one of the most important glaciological parameters to characterize the accumulation and ablation of glaciers. Glacier mass balance is the link between climate and glacier change, and it is the direct reflection of glacier to the regional climate. Climate change leads to the corresponding changes in the material budget of glaciers, which in turn can lead to changes in the movement characteristics and thermal conditions of glaciers, and then lead to changes in the location, area and ice storage of glaciers. The monitoring method is to set a fixed mark flower pole on the glacier surface and regularly monitor the distance between the glacier surface and the top of the flower pole to calculate the amount of ice and snow melting; In the accumulation area, the snow pits or boreholes are excavated regularly to measure the snow density, analyze the characteristics of snow granular snow additional ice layer, and calculate the snow accumulation; Then, the single point monitoring results are drawn on the large-scale glacier topographic map, and the instantaneous, seasonal (such as winter and summer) and annual mass balance components of the whole glacier are calculated according to the net equilibrium contour method or contour zoning method. The data set is the annual mass balance data of different representative glaciers in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau and Tianshan Mountains, in millimeter water equivalent.
WU Guangjian
Glacier is the supply water source of rivers in the western mountainous area, and it is one of the most basic elements for people to survive and develop industry, agriculture and animal husbandry in the western region. Glaciers are not only valuable fresh water resources, but also the source of serious natural disasters in mountainous areas, such as sudden ice lake outburst flood, glacier debris flow and ice avalanche. Glacier hydrological monitoring is the basis for studying the characteristics of glacier melt water, the replenishment of glacier melt water to rivers, the relationship between glacier surface ablation and runoff, the process of ice runoff and confluence, and the calculation and prediction of floods and debris flows induced by glacier and seasonal snow melt water. Glacial hydrology refers to the water and heat conditions of glacial covered basins (i.e. glacial action areas), that is, the water and heat exchange between glaciers and their surrounding environment, the physical process of water accumulation and flow on the surface, inside and bottom of glaciers, the water balance of glaciers, the replenishment of glacial melt water to rivers, and the impact of water bodies in cold regions on climate change. At present, hydrological monitoring stations are mainly established at the outlet of the river basin to carry out field monitoring《 Glacial water resources of China (1991), hydrology of cold regions of China (2000) and glacial Hydrology (2001) summarize the early studies on glacial hydrology. China has carried out glacier hydrological monitoring on more than 20 glaciers in Tianshan, Karakorum, West Kunlun, Qilian, Tanggula, Nianqing Tanggula, gangrigab, Hengduan and Himalayas. This data set is the monthly runoff data of representative glaciers.
YANG Wei, LI Zhongqin, WANG Ninglian, QIN Xiang
This data set takes the freezing index calculated by the long-time scale (1901-2016) temperature provided by UEA-CRU and UDEL as the input data, calculates the soil freezing depth of Yarlung Zangbo River Basin through Stefan empirical formula, and interpolates the 30-year scale average soil freezing depth data set output by simulation. This data set takes the freezing index calculated by the long-time scale (1901-2016) temperature provided by UEA-CRU and UDEL as the input data, calculates the soil freezing depth of Yarlung Zangbo River Basin through Stefan empirical formula, and interpolates the 30-year scale average soil freezing depth data set output by simulation.
LIU Lei , LUO Dongliang , WANG Lei
This data is the disturbance disaster data of 1:250000 major projects in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. For the scope of disaster interpretation, line engineering (national highway, high-speed, railway and Power Grid Engineering) and hydropower engineering are bounded by the first watershed on both sides of the project; Mine, oilfield and port projects are bounded by 1km away from the project. Engineering disturbance disasters can be divided into two categories: ① landslide, collapse and debris flow disasters induced by engineering construction; ② For natural disasters that may affect the project, it is stipulated that all natural disasters within the above interpretation scope belong to category ② engineering disturbance disasters. The data includes the location, length, width, height difference, distribution elevation, genetic type, inducing factors, occurrence time, lithology and other elements of landslide, disaster related projects and project construction years. Based on Google Earth image and 1:500000 geological diagram, 6176 disaster points were interpreted; Google Earth is mainly used for disturbance disaster interpretation, and combined with field investigation to verify the interpretation results, ArcGIS is used to generate disaster distribution map; The data comes from Google Earth high-resolution images, with high accuracy of original data. In the process of generating disaster files, the interpretation specifications are strictly followed, and special personnel are assigned to review, so the data quality is reliable; Based on the collected data, the disaster risk analysis of the study area can be carried out to provide theoretical guidance for the smooth operation of the built projects and the construction of the line projects not built / under construction.
QI Shengwen
This data set is daily surface albedo product over Tibet plateau region from 2002 to 2020 with a spatial resolution of 0.00425°. The MODIS reflectance data product was used to retrieve the Extended Multi-Sensor Combined BRDF Inversion (EMCBI) Model which has coupled with topographic effects with assistance of a BRDF priori-knowledge. The daily BRDF was retrieved in a 5-day period to collect multi-angular information from MODIS observations. And then the daily albedo is estimated, where the black sky albedo was calculated at local noon. MODIS surface reflectance data (MOD09GA and MYD09GA) are downloaded from the official website. The albedo product is quality-controlled with better temporal and spatial continuity in Tibet plateau area. The validation results show that it meets the accuracy requirements of albedo application with higher precisions comparing to the other similar products. And thus, this product is useful for the long-term environmental monitoring and radiation energy budget research study.
WEN Jianguang , YOU Dongqin, YOU Dongqin, TANG Yong, TANG Yong, TANG Yong, HAN Yuan HAN Yuan
This data includes 1:4 million precision fault data within the scope of Qinghai Tibet Plateau in China. The attribute table fields include fault name, fault length, strike, dip, fault property, paleoearthquake, etc. The data comes from the Seismological Bureau. Later, by consulting a large number of fault related literature, the attribute of fault activity age is added on the basis of the original data. The accuracy of original data is reliable, and a special person is responsible for quality review; After review by many people, the data integrity, position accuracy and attribute accuracy meet the requirements of relevant technical regulations and standards, and the quality is excellent and reliable. The fault data can provide basic data support for some fault related research work in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau.
QI Shengwen
To understand the potential impact of projected climate changes on the vulnerable agriculture in Central Asia (CA) in the future, six agroclimatic indicators are calculated based on the 9km-resolution dynamical downscaled results of three different global climate models and a high-resolution projection dataset of agroclimatic indicators over CA is produced. These indicators are growing season length (GSL, days), biologically effective degree days (BEDD, ℃), frost days (FD, days), summer days (SU, days), warm spell duration index (WSDI, days), and tropical nights (TR, days). The periods are 1986-2005 and 2031-2050. The spatial resolution is 0.1°. As all the indicators except WSDI are defined with absolute temperature thresholds and particularly sensitive to the systematics biases in the model data, the quantile mapping (QM) method is applied to correct the simulated temperature. Results show the QM method largely reduces the biases in all the indicators. GSL, SU, WSDI, and TR will significantly increase over CA and FD will decrease. However, changes in BEDD are spatially heterogeneous, with the increases in northern CA and the mountainous areas and decreases in the southern and middle part of the plain areas. This dataset can be applied for assessing the future risks in the local agriculture for climate changes and will be beneficial to adaption and mitigation actions for food security in this region.
QIU Yuan
The vegetation type map was created by the random forest (RF) classification approach, based on 319 ground-truth samples, combined with a set of input variables derived from the visible, infrared, and thermal Landsat-8 images. According to vegetation characteristics, four types include alpine swamp meadow (ASM), alpine meadow (AM), alpine steppe (AS), and alpine desert (AD) were classified in this map. Based on a spatial resolution of 30 m, the map can provide more detailed vegetation information.
ZHOU Defu, ZOU Defu, ZOU Defu, Zhao Lin, ZHAO Lin, Liu Guangyue, LIU Guangyue, Du Erji, DU Erji, LI Zhibin , LI Zhibin, Wu Tonghua, WU Xiaodong, CHEN Jie CHEN Jie
This data is the land cover data at 30m resolution of Southeast Asia in 2015. The data format of the data is NetCDF, and the variable name is "land cover type". The data was obtained by mosaicing and extracting the From-GLC data. Several land cover types, such as snow and ice that do not exist in Southeast Asia were eliminated.The legend were reintegrated to match the new data. The data provide information of 8 land cover types: cropland, forest, grassland, shrub, wetland, water, city and bare land. The overall accuracy of the data is 71% (Gong et al., 2019). The data can provide the land cover information of Southeast Asia for hydrological models and regional climate models.
LIU Junguo
The energy supply resilience of the countries along the Belt and Road reflects the level of energy supply resilience of the countries along the Belt and Road, and the higher the value of the data, the stronger the energy supply resilience of the countries along the Belt and Road. "The energy supply resilience data for countries along the "Belt and Road" are prepared with reference to the International Energy Agency (IEA) national energy statistics (https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics), using the 2000-2019 The energy supply resilience product was prepared based on sensitivity and adaptability analysis, using year-by-year data on coal, oil and natural gas supply in countries along the "Belt and Road", and taking into account the year-by-year changes of each energy source.
XU Xinliang
Population age structure resilience reflects the level of population age structure resilience in the countries along the Belt and Road. The World Bank's statistical database was used to prepare the data on the resilience of the population age structure of the countries along the Belt and Road. Based on the sensitivity and adaptability analysis, a comprehensive diagnosis was made based on the year-on-year change of each indicator, and the product on the resilience of population age structure was prepared.
XU Xinliang
Population growth resilience reflects the level of resilience of population growth in the countries along the belt and road, and the higher the value, the stronger the resilience of population growth in the countries along the belt and road. The data on the resilience of population growth is prepared by referring to the World Bank's statistical database, using the year-on-year changes in the population of countries along the Belt and Road from 2000 to 2019, taking into account the year-on-year changes in each indicator, and through comprehensive diagnosis based on sensitivity and adaptability analysis. The resilience of population growth product.
XU Xinliang
A long-term (1980-2017) land evaporation (E) product with a spatial resolution of 0.25 degree. This is a merged product from three model-based E products using the Reliability Ensemble Averaging (REA) method which minimizes errors. These include the fifth-generation ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA5), the second Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA2), and the Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS). To facilitate user-friendly access and download the dataset is stored individually for each year in a separate file. These files contain daily and monthly mean data (e.g., REA_1980_day.nc and REA_1980_mon.nc). The dataset is stored in NetCDF format, containing the variable E, representing land evaporation, produced in millimeters (mm) as a unit. There are three dimensions included in the dataset: longitude, latitude, and time, with the longitude ranging from -179.875E to 179.875E, the latitude from -59.875N to 89.875N. Complete time coverage is from January 1, 1980, to December 31, 2017.
LU Jiao, WANG Guojie, CHEN Tiexi, LI Shijie, HAGAN Daniel, KATTEL Giri, PENG Jian, JIANG Tong, SU Buda
Near-surface air temperature variability and the reliability of temperature extrapolation within glacierized regions are important issues for hydrological and glaciological studies that remain elusive because of the scarcity of high-elevation observations. Based on air temperature data in 2019 collected from 12 automatic weather stations, 43 temperature loggers and 6 national meteorological stations in six different catchments, this study presents air temperature variability in different glacierized/nonglacierized regions and assesses the robustness of different temperature extrapolations to reduce errors in melt estimation. The results show high spatial variability in temperature lapse rates (LRs) in different climatic contexts, with the steepest LRs located on the cold-dry northwestern Tibetan Plateau and the lowest LRs located on the warm-humid monsoonal-influenced southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Near-surface air temperatures in high-elevation glacierized regions of the western and central Tibetan Plateau are less influenced by katabatic winds and thus can be linearly extrapolated from off-glacier records. In contrast, the local katabatic winds prevailing on the temperate glaciers of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau exert pronounced cooling effects on the ambient air temperature, and thus, on-glacier air temperatures are significantly lower than that in elevation-equivalent nonglacierized regions. Consequently, linear temperature extrapolation from low-elevation nonglacierized stations may lead to as much as 40% overestimation of positive degree days, particularly with respect to large glaciers with a long flowline distances and significant cooling effects. These findings provide noteworthy evidence that the different LRs and relevant cooling effects on high-elevation glaciers under distinct climatic regimes should be carefully accounted for when estimating glacier melting on the Tibetan Plateau.
YANG Wei
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.
Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) is fundamental physiological variable driving the process of material and energy exchange, and is indispensable for researches in ecological and agricultural fields. In this study, we produced a 35-year (1984-2018) high-resolution (3 h, 10 km) global grided PAR dataset with an effective physical-based PAR model. The main inputs were cloud optical depth from the latest International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) H-series cloud products, the routine variables (water vapor, surface pressure and ozone) from the ERA5 reanalysis data, aerosol from the Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2) products and albedo from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) product after 2000 and CLARRA-2 product before 2000. The grided PAR products were evaluated against surface observations measured at seven experimental stations of the SURFace RADiation budget network (SURFRAD), 42 experimental stations of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), and 38 experimental stations of the Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN). The instantaneous PAR was validated at the SURFRAD and NEON, and the mean bias errors (MBEs) and root mean square errors (RMSEs) are 5.6 W m-2 and 44.3 W m-2, and 5.9 W m-2 and 45.5 W m-2, respectively, and correlation coefficients (R) are both 0.94 at 10 km scale. When averaged to 30 km, the errors were obviously reduced with RMSEs decreasing to 36.3 W m-2 and 36.3 W m-2 and R both increasing to 0.96. The daily PAR was validated at the SURFRAD, NEON and CERN, and the RMSEs were 13.2 W m-2, 13.1 W m-2 and 19.6 W m-2, respectively at 10 km scale. The RMSEs were slightly reduced to 11.2 W m-2, 11.6 W m-2, and 18.6 W m-2 when upscaled to 30 km. Comparison with the other well-known global satellite-based PAR product of the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) reveals that our PAR product was a more accurate dataset with higher resolution than the CRERS. Our grided PAR dataset would contribute to the ecological simulation and food yield assessment in the future.
TANG Wenjun
The Central Asia Reanalysis (CAR) dataset is generated based on the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model version 4.1.2 and WRF Data Assimilation (WRFDA) Version 4.1.2. Variables include temperature,, pressure, wind speed, precipitation and radiation. The reanalysis is established through cyclic assimilation, which performs data assimilation every 6 hours by 3DVAR. The assimilated data include conventional atmospheric observation and satellite radiation data. The main source of conventional data is Global Teleconnection System (GTS), including surface station, automatic station, radiosonde and aircraft report, and the observation elements include temperature, air pressure, wind speed and humidity. Satellite observations include retrievals and radiation data, The retrievals are mainly atmospheric motion vectors from polar orbiting meteorological satellites (NOAA-18, NOAA-19, MetOP-A and MetOP-B) and resampled to a horizontal resolution of 54km; the radiation data includes microwave radiation from MSU, AMSU and MHS and HIRS infrared radiation data. The simulation applies nesting with a horizontal resolution of 27km and 9km respectively, a total of 38 layers in the vertical direction and a top of the model layer of 10hPa. The lateral boundary conditions of the model are provided by ERA-Interim every 6 hours. The physical schemes used in the model are Thompson microphysics scheme, CAM radiation scheme, MYJ boundary layer scheme, Grell convection scheme and Noah land surface model. The data covers five countries in Central Asia, including Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, as well as lakes in Central Asia, such as Caspian Sea, Aral Sea, Balkash lake and Isaac lake, which can be used for the study of climate, ecology and hydrology in the region. Compared with gauge-based precipitation in Central Asia, the simulation by CAR shows similar performance with MSWEP ( a merged product) and outperforms ERA5 and ERA-Interim.
YAO Yao
Qiangyong glacier: 90.23 °E, 28.88° N, 4898 m asl. The surface is bedrock. The record contains data of absolute pressure and water temperature. Data from the automatic water gauge was collected using USB equipment at 12:00 on June 15, 2021, with a recording interval of one hour, and data was downloaded at 12:00 on Nov. 2, 2021. There is no missing data. Jiagang glacier: 88.69°E, 30.82°N, 5362 m asl. The surface is rubble and weeds. The record contains data of absolute pressure and water temperature. Data from the automatic water gauge was collected using USB equipment at 20:00 on June 19, 2021, with a recording interval of one hour, and data was downloaded at 11:00 onSept 18 , 2021. There is no missing data.
ZHANG Dongqi
This dataset covers the 2017 sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, PM2.5 emissions grid list of Pan-third polar regions (South Asia: Nepal, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives; Central Asia: Turkistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan; Josiah: Iran, Iraq, azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, yemen, bahrain, Qatar, Oman, united Arab emirates, Kuwait, Lebanon, Cyprus). The emission inventory is derived from the data set publicly available in IIASA network. By using ArcGIS software technology, the emission inventory is processed into a GRID data set of 50km*50km, whose quality can be guaranteed. The data can be used by modelers to further study climate and air quality in the third polar region.
WU Qingru
This data set includes grid emission inventories of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and PM2.5 in 2019 in China's third polar region (Tibet, Xinjiang, Yunnan and Qinghai). The emission inventory comes from the emission inventory database of the research group of Professor Wang Shuxiao of Tsinghua University. The emission inventory is processed into a 1km * 1km grid dataset by using ArcGIS software technology. The basic data of emission calculation is calculated by the emission factor method based on public data collection, satellite observation data and literature collection. The data are from the data of the National Bureau of statistics and the statistical yearbook of other industries, and its quality can be guaranteed. The data can be used for further study of climate and air quality in the third polar region.
WU Qingru
Simulation results of four cmip6 models in 2015-2100 under the scenario of shared socio-economic path (SSP) 5-8.5. The selection standard is that the resolution of the four modes is less than 1 °, and there are daily data. Eight variables representing extreme climate are extracted from the original simulation results, which are the extremely high value of daily maximum temperature (TXX), the extremely high value of daily minimum temperature (TNX), the extremely low value of daily maximum temperature (TxN), the extremely low value of daily minimum temperature (TNN), the number of continuous dry days (CDD), the number of continuous wet days (CWD), precipitation intensity (SDII) and the number of heavy precipitation days (r20mm). The time resolution of the data is years, the spatial range is the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, and the time range is 2015-2100.
ZHANG Ran ZHANG Ran
Based on the data of Gaogao No. 1 and No. 2 in China from 2019 to 2020, the freeze-thaw disaster distribution data of Qinghai Tibet project corridor is produced by using the deep learning classification method and manual visual interpretation and correction. The geographical range of the data is 40km along the Xidatan Anduo section of Qinghai Tibet highway. The data include the distribution data of thermal melting lakes and ponds and the distribution data of thermal melting landslides. The data set can provide data basis for the research of freeze-thaw disaster and engineering disaster prevention and reduction in Qinghai Tibet engineering corridor. The spatial distribution of freezing and thawing disasters within 40km along the Xidatan Anduo section of Qinghai Tibet highway is self-made based on the domestic gaogao-2 image data. Firstly, the deep learning method is used to extract the mud flow terrace block from Gaogao No. 2 data; Then, ArcGIS is used for manual editing. During the production process, the operators are required to strictly abide by the operation specifications, and a special person is responsible for the quality review.
NIU Fujun, LUO Jing
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.
LI Guoyu
Lake surface water temperature (LSWT) at Xiashe station from 1967 to 2020; Lake ice depth and lake ice duration at Xiashe station from 1994 to 2020; Runoff at Buha station from 1956 to 2020; Lake level at Xiashe station from 1956 to 2020; Lake area from 1956 to 2020 estimated from the correlation constructed between lake area derived from Landsat images and lake level from gauge measurements in 2001−2020; Air temperature (T) at Gangcha station from 1958 to 2019; Precipitation (P) at Gangcha station from 1958 to 2019
ZHANG Guoqing
Surface melting is the primary reason that affects the mass balance of Greenland ice sheet. At the same time, ice and snow have high albedo, and ice sheet surface melting will cause the difference of radiation energy budget, and then affects the energy exchange between sea-land-air. The high-resolution ice sheet surface melting product provides important information support for the study of Greenland ice sheet surface melting and its response to global climate change. This 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, Greenland ice sheet surface melt daily product for 1985, 2000, 2015 (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. DSSMIS’s data type is integer, where 1 is melted, 0 is not melted, 255 is masked area besides Greenland ice sheet, and the data set is stored as *.nc.
WEI Siyi,
This data includes the land cover data of Central Asia, South Asia and Indochina Peninsula in the from 1992 to 2020 with a spatial resolution of 300mLand cover data includes 10 primary categories, which are combined from the secondary categories of the original data. The data source is the surface coverage product CCI-LC of ESA, where the spatial distribution of cropland, built-up land, and water for the land cover data from 1992 to 2020. Combined with the Tsinghua university global land cover data (FROM GLC, 30 m grid), NASA MODIS global land cover data (MCD12Q1, 500 m grid), the United States Geological Survey (USGS global land data (GFSAD30, 30 m), Japanese global forest data (PALSAR/PALSAR - 2, 25 m), the training sample dataset of land cover interpretation were built from the consistent areas of multiple products. The Google Earth Engine and random forest algorithm were used to correct the cropland, built-up land, and water of temporal CCI-LC data. Using the high resolution images in Google Earth at 2019 and 2020, the accuracy of change areas of cropland, built-up land, and water was validated by the stratified random sampling. A total of 3,600 land parcels were selected from 1,200 land parcels of the three land cover types, indicating that the accuracy of our corrected product increased in the range of 11% to 26% for the change areas compared to the CCI-LC product.
XU Erqi
1) The Qinghai Tibet plateau surface meteorological driving data set (2019-2020) includes four meteorological elements: land surface temperature, mean total precipitation rate, mean surface downward long wave radiation flux and mean surface downward short wave radiation flux. 2) The data set is based on era5 reanalysis data, supplemented by MODIS NDVI, MODIS DEM and fy3d mwri DEM data products. The era5 reanalysis data were downscaled by multiple linear regression method, and finally generated by resampling. 3) All data elements of the Qinghai Tibet plateau surface meteorological driving data set (2019-2020) are stored in TIFF format. The time resolution includes (daily, monthly and annual), and the spatial resolution is unified as 0.1 ° × 0.1°。 4) This data is convenient for researchers and students who will not use such assimilated data in. NC format. Based on the long-term observation data of field stations of the alpine network and overseas stations in the pan third pole region, a series of data sets of meteorological, hydrological and ecological elements in the pan third pole region are established; Complete the inversion of meteorological elements, lake water quantity and quality, aboveground vegetation biomass, glacier and frozen soil change and other data products through intensive observation in key areas and verification of sample plots and sample points; Based on the Internet of things technology, a multi station networked meteorological, hydrological and ecological data management platform is developed to realize real-time acquisition, remote control and sharing of networked data.
ZHU Liping, DU Baolong
This data set contains the high-resolution tropospheric nitrogen dioxide vertical column concentration pomino v2.1 data in East Asia from 2012 to 2020. It is a new version of the data after bug fix of v2.0.1, which provides an important data basis for studying the spatial distribution characteristics and temporal change trend of tropospheric nitrogen dioxide in China. Based on the tropospheric nitrogen dioxide slant column concentration provided by KNMI, the pomino tropospheric nitrogen dioxide vertical column concentration is calculated through the tropospheric AMF retrieval algorithm developed by ourselves. The comparison with the ground-based observation data shows that the tropospheric nitrogen dioxide column concentration of pomino can better capture the day-to-day variation trend, and has better correlation with the ground-based observation data. At present, the data has been used for scientific research by many universities and scientific research institutions at home and abroad. In the future, the data set will provide more comprehensive data support for scientific research projects on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau.
LIN Jintai
Rainfall erosivity is one of the important basic data to quantify soil erosion in the Tibet Plateau. High precision rainfall erosivity data is the key to understand the current situation of soil and water loss in theTibet Plateau and formulate soil and water conservation measures. Meanwhile, it can provide a powerful reference for the prevention and control of geological disasters in the Tibet Plateau. Based on the 1-min dense precipitation observations and the grid precipitation product, a new annual rainfall erosivity dataset in Tibet Plateau from 1950 to 2020 is constructed through the steps of correction, reconstruction and validation. This dataset is the rainfall erosivity data set with the highest accuracy and the longest time series in the Tibet Plateau.
CHEN Yueli
The SZIsnow dataset was calculated based on systematic physical fields from the Global Land Data Assimilation System version 2 (GLDAS-2) with the Noah land surface model. This SZIsnow dataset considers different physical water-energy processes, especially snow processes. The evaluation shows the dataset is capable of investigating different types of droughts across different timescales. The assessment also indicates that the dataset has an adequate performance to capture droughts across different spatial scales. The consideration of snow processes improved the capability of SZIsnow, and the improvement is evident over snow-covered areas (e.g., Arctic region) and high-altitude areas (e.g., Tibet Plateau). Moreover, the analysis also implies that SZIsnow dataset is able to well capture the large-scale drought events across the world. This drought dataset has high application potential for monitoring, assessing, and supplying information of drought, and also can serve as a valuable resource for drought studies.
WU Pute, TIAN Lei, ZHANG Baoqing
The mass loss of the Greenland ice sheet has been the main contributor to global sea level rise in recent decades. Under the trend of global warming, the Greenland ice sheet is melting faster. It is of great scientific significance to explore the causes of mass loss and its response to climate change. Based on the MEaSUREs Greenland groundingline and the basin boundaries, we discretize the groundingline, combine the MEaSUREs annual ice velocity data from 1985 to 2015 with the BedMachine v3 ice thickness data, and vectorially calculate the ice discharge at each flux gate of the groundingline. We use the surface mass balance data of RACMO2.3p2 model to spatially calculate the surface mass balance of each basin, and combined it with the ice discharge results to obtain the Greenland ice sheet mass balance data set (1985-2015). The data set includes the mass balance results of each basin of the Greenland ice sheet in the year 1985, 2000 and 2015, and the annual ice velocity data, ice thickness and annual ice discharge corresponding to the location of each flux gate. The data set realizes the fine evaluation of ice flux at the groundingline, and reflect the changes and spatial distribution characteristics of the mass balance of each basin of the Greenland ice sheet in recent 30 years. It provides basic data for the subsequent fine change evaluation and prediction of the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet and the exploration of the mechanism of ice sheet loss.
LIN Yijing, CHENG Xiao
The Antarctic ice sheet is one of the largest potential sources of global sea level rise. Accurately determining the mass budget of the ice sheet is the key to understand the dynamic changes of the Antarctic ice sheet. It is very important to understand the evolution process of the ice sheet and accurately predict the future global sea level rise. Based on the MEaSUREs Antarctic groundingline and the basin boundaries, we discretize the groundingline, combine the MEaSUREs and RAMP annual ice velocity data from 1985 to 2015 with the BedMachine ice thickness data, and vectorially calculate the ice discharge at each flux gate of the groundingline. We use the surface mass balance data of RACMO2.3p2 model to spatially calculate the surface mass balance of each basin, and combined it with the ice discharge results to obtain the Antarctic ice sheet mass balance data set (1985-2015). The data set includes the mass balance results of each basin of the Antarctic ice sheet in the year 1985, 2000 and 2015, and the annual ice velocity data, ice thickness and annual ice discharge corresponding to the location of each flux gate. The data set realizes the fine evaluation of ice flux at the groundingline, and reflect the changes and spatial distribution characteristics of the mass balance of each basin of the Antarctic ice sheet in recent 30 years. It provides basic data for the subsequent fine change evaluation and prediction of the mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet and the exploration of the mechanism of ice sheet loss.
LIN Yijing, CHENG Xiao
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.
WEI Siyi,
The maximum freezing depth is an important index of the thermal state of seasonal frozen ground. Due to global warming, the maximum freezing depth of seasonal frozen ground continues to decline. The maximum freezing depth data set of five provinces in Northwest China, Tibet and surrounding areas from 1961 to 2020 was released, with a spatial resolution of 1 km. The data set is a support vector regression (SVR) model based on the measured data of maximum freezing depth from 2001 to 2010 and spatial environmental variables, which simulates the maximum freezing depth in Northwest China, Tibet and surrounding areas from 1961 to 2020. The validation results show that the SVR model has good spatial generalization ability, and there is a high consistency between the predicted value and the observed value of the maximum soil freezing depth. The determination coefficients of the simulation results in the four periods of 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s are 0.77, 0.83, 0.73 and 0.71 respectively. The percentile range of the prediction results shows that the simulation results have good stability. Based on this data set, it is found that the maximum soil freezing depth in Northwest China continues to decline, among which Qinghai has the fastest decline rate, with an average decline of 0.53 cm every decade. The data set provides data support for the study of seasonal frozen soil in Northwest China, High Mountain Asia and the Third Pole.
WANG Bingquan, RAN Youhua
Based on 11 well-acknowledged global-scale microwave remote sensing-based surface soil moisture products, and with 9 main quality impact factors of microwave-based soil moisture retrieval incorporated, we developed the Remote Sensing-based global Surface Soil Moisture dataset (RSSSM, 2003~2020) through a complicated neural network approach. The spatial resolution of RSSSM is 0.1°, while the temporal resolution is approximately 10 days. The original dataset covered 2003~2018, but now it has been updated to 2020. RSSSM dataset is outstanding in terms of temporal continuity, and has full spatial coverage except for snow, ice and water bodies. The comparison against the global-scale in-situ soil moisture measurements indicates that RSSSM has a higher spatial and temporal accuracy than most of the frequently-used global/regional long-term surface soil moisture datasets. In addition, although RSSSM is remote sensing based, without the incorporation of any precipitation data or records, its interannual variation generally conforms with that of precipitation (e.g., the GPM IMERG precipitation data) and Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI). Moreover, RSSSM can also reflect the impact of human activities, e.g., urbanization, cropland irrigation and afforestation on soil moisture changes to some degree. The data is in ‘Tiff’ format, and the size after compression is 2.48 GB. The relevant data describing paper has been published in the Journal ‘Earth System Science Data’ in 2021.
CHEN Yongzhe, FENG Xiaoming, FU Bojie
This dataset is derived from the paper: Xiaodan Wu, Kathrin Naegeli, Valentina Premier, Carlo Marin, Dujuan Ma, Jingping Wang, Stefan Wunderle. (2021). Evaluation of snow extent time series derived from AVHRR GAC data (1982-2018) in the Himalaya-Hindukush. The Cryosphere, 15,4261-4279. ln this paper, the performance of the AVHRR GAC snowpack product in the Hindu Kush Himalayas is comprehensively evaluated for the first time on a long time scale (1982-2018) based on ground station data, Landsat data, and MODIS snowpack product, respectively, including the consistency of the accuracy/precision of the product over a long time series, and the consistency of the product with Landsat and MODIS snowpack data in terms of spatial distribution. The main factors affecting the accuracy of the AVHRR GAC snowpack product are also revealed.
WU Xiaodan
The observation data are from Tajikistan Pamir Plateau glacier observation station built by Urumqi desert Meteorological Institute of China Meteorological Administration in 2019, including air temperature and humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and direction, precipitation, snow depth and other data. The data period is from November 1, 2019 to November 30, 2020. The *. Xlsx format processed by MS office has good data quality. This data can provide a reference for the study of glacier ablation and its potential impact on hydrological characteristics, water resources and ecological environment. Meteorological observation elements are accumulated and processed into climate data to provide precious data support for weather forecast and economic activities. It is widely used in agriculture, forestry, industry, transportation, military, hydrology, medical and health, environmental protection and other departments.
HUO Wen
Central Asia (referred to as CA) is among the most vulnerable regions to climate change due to the fragile ecosystems, frequent natural hazards, strained water resources, and accelerated glacier melting, which underscores the need of high-resolution climate projection datasets for application to vulnerability, impacts, and adaption assessments. We applied three bias-corrected global climate models (GCMs) to conduct 9-km resolution dynamical downscaling in CA. A high-resolution climate projection dataset over CA (the HCPD-CA dataset) is derived from the downscaled results, which contains four static variables and ten meteorological elements that are widely used to drive ecological and hydrological models. The static variables are terrain height (HGT, m), land use category (LU_INDEX, 21 categories), land mask (LANDMASK, 1 for land and 0 for water), and soil category (ISLTYP, 16 categories). The meteorological elements are daily precipitation (PREC, mm/day), daily mean/maximum/minimum temperature at 2m (T2MEAN/T2MAX/T2MIN, K), daily mean relative humidity at 2m (RH2MEAN, %), daily mean eastward and northward wind at 10m (U10MEAN/V10MEAN, m/s), daily mean downward shortwave/longwave flux at surface (SWD/LWD, W/m2), and daily mean surface pressure (PSFC, Pa). The reference and future periods are 1986-2005 and 2031-2050, respectively. The carbon emission scenario is RCP4.5. The results show the data product has good quality in describing the climatology of all the elements in CA, which ensures the suitability of the dataset for future research. The main feature of projected climate changes in CA in the near-term future is strong warming (annual mean temperature increasing by 1.62-2.02℃) and significant increase in downward shortwave and longwave flux at surface, with minor changes in other elements. The HCPD-CA dataset presented here serves as a scientific basis for assessing the impacts of climate change over CA on many sectors, especially on ecological and hydrological systems.
QIU Yuan
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.
HUO Wen
Surface soil moisture (SSM) is a crucial parameter for understanding the hydrological process of our earth surface. Passive microwave (PM) technique has long been the primary choice for estimating SSM at satellite remote sensing scales, while on the other hand, the coarse resolution (usually >~10 km) of PM observations hampers its applications at finer scales. Although quantitative studies have been proposed for downscaling satellite PM-based SSM, very few products have been available to public that meet the qualification of 1-km resolution and daily revisit cycles under all-weather conditions. In this study, therefore, we have developed one such SSM product in China with all these characteristics. The product was generated through downscaling of AMSR-E and AMSR-2 based SSM at 36-km, covering all on-orbit time of the two radiometers during 2003-2019. MODIS optical reflectance data and daily thermal infrared land surface temperature (LST) that have been gap-filled for cloudy conditions were the primary data inputs of the downscaling model, in order to achieve the “all-weather” quality for the SSM downscaling outcome. Daily images from this developed SSM product have achieved quasi-complete coverage over the country during April-September. For other months, the national coverage percentage of the developed product is also greatly improved against the original daily PM observations. We evaluated the product against in situ soil moisture measurements from over 2000 professional meteorological and soil moisture observation stations, and found the accuracy of the product is stable for all weathers from clear sky to cloudy conditions, with station averages of the unbiased RMSE ranging from 0.053 vol to 0.056 vol. Moreover, the evaluation results also show that the developed product distinctly outperforms the widely known SMAP-Sentinel (Active-Passive microwave) combined SSM product at 1-km resolution. This indicates potential important benefits that can be brought by our developed product, on improvement of futural investigations related to hydrological processes, agricultural industry, water resource and environment management.
SONG Peilin, ZHANG Yongqiang
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.
HUO Wen
The temperature humidity index (THI) was proposed by J.E. Oliver in 1973. Its physical meaning is the temperature after humidity correction. It considers the comprehensive impact of temperature and relative humidity on human comfort. It is an important index to measure regional climate comfort. On the basis of referring to the existing classification standards of physiological and climatic evaluation indexes, combined with the natural and geographical characteristics of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau and facing the needs of human settlements suitability evaluation in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, the temperature and humidity index and its suitability zoning results of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau (more than 3000 meters) are developed (including unsuitable, critical suitable, general suitable, relatively suitable and highly suitable).
LI Peng, LIN Yumei
The data set mainly includes the ice observation frequency (ICO) of north temperate lakes in four periods from 1985 to 2020, as well as the location, area and elevation of the lakes. Among them, the four time periods are 1985-1998 (P1), 1999-2006 (P2), 2007-2014 (P3) and 2015-2020 (P4) respectively, in order to improve the "valid observation" times in the calculation period and improve the accuracy. The ICO of the four periods is calculated by the ratio of "icing" times and "valid observation" times counted by all Landsat images in each period. Other lake information corresponds to the HydroLAKEs data set through the "hylak_id" column in the table. In addition, the data only retains about 30000 lakes with an area of more than 1 square kilometer, which are valid for P1-P4 observation. The data set can reflect the response of Lake icing to climate change in recent decades.
WANG Xinchi
Under the funding of the first project (Development of Multi-scale Observation and Data Products of Key Cryosphere Parameters) of the National Key Research and Development Program of China-"The Observation and Inversion of Key Parameters of Cryosphere and Polar Environmental Changes", the research group of Zhang, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed the snow depth downscaling product in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The snow depth downscaling data set for the Tibetan Plateau is derived from the fusion of snow cover probability dataset and Long-term snow depth dataset in China. The sub-pixel spatio-temporal downscaling algorithm is developed to downscale the original 0.25° snow depth dataset, and the 0.05° daily snow depth product is obtained. By comparing the accuracy evaluation of the snow depth product before and after downscaling, it is found that the root mean square error of the snow depth downscaling product is 0.61 cm less than the original product. The details of the product information of the Downscaling of Snow Depth Dataset for the Tibetan Plateau (2000-2018) are as follows. The projection is longitude and latitude, the spatial resolution is 0.05° (about 5km), and the time is from September 1, 2000 to September 1, 2018. It is a TIF format file. The naming rule is SD_yyyyddd.tif, where yyyy represents year and DDD represents Julian day (001-365). Snow depth (SD), unit: centimeter (cm). The spatial resolution is 0.05°. The time resolution is day by day.
YAN Dajiang, MA Ning, MA Ning, ZHANG Yinsheng
The data set records the statistical data of grassland type area and livestock carrying capacity in Haidong area of Qinghai Province in 1988 and 2012. The data are classified and counted according to the grassland group code, such as: I represents Alpine dry grassland, II represents mountain dry grassland, III represents Alpine desert, B represents medium grass group, J represents shrub group, etc, For specific grassland group type codes and their corresponding meanings, see "description of grassland group type codes in Qinghai Province. PDF" in the data set. The data are compiled from the grassland station of Qinghai Province and the grassland resources statistics of Qinghai Province issued in 1988 and 2012. The data set contains three data tables, which are: statistical data of grassland area and livestock carrying capacity of various types in Haidong area (1988), statistical data of grassland area and livestock carrying capacity in Haidong area (2012) and description of grassland group code in Qinghai Province. The data table structure is similar. For example, there are 8 fields in the statistical data (2012) of grassland type, area and livestock carrying capacity in Haidong area: Field 1: type code Field 2: grassland type name Field 3: grassland area Field 4: available area of grassland Field 5: average unit yield of fresh grass Field 6: average unit yield of edible fresh grass Field 7: stocking capacity Field 8: grassland type, etc
AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL Department of Qinghai Province
This data set is the global high accuracy global elevation control point dataset, including the geographic positioning, elevation, acquisition time and other information of each elevation control point. The accuracy of laser footprint elevation extracted from satellite laser altimetry data is affected by many factors, such as atmosphere, payload instrument noise, terrain fluctuation in laser footprint and so on. The dataset extracted from the altimetry observation data of ICESat satellite from 2003 to 2009 through the screening criteria constructed by the evaluation label and ranging error model, in order to provide global high accuracy elevation control points for topographic map or other scientific fields relying on good elevation information. It has been verified that the elevation accuracy of flat (slope<2°), hilly (2°≤slope<6°), and mountain (6°≤slope<25°) areas meet the accuracy requirements of 0.5m, 1.5m, and 3m respectively.
XIE Huan, LI Binbin, TONG Xionghua, TANG Hong, LIU Shijie, JIN Yanmin, WANG Chao, YE Zhen, CHEN Peng, XU Xiong, LIU Sicong, FENG Yongjiu
Supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Science (XDA19070100). Tao Che, the director of this program, who comes from Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing of Gansu Province, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, CAS. They used machine learning methods combined with multi-source gridded snow depth product data to derive a long-time series over the Northern Hemisphere. Firstly, the applicability of artificial neural network (ANN), support vector machine (SVM) and random forest (RF) method in snow depth fusion are compared. It is found that random forest method shows strong advantages in snow depth data fusion. Secondly, using the random forest method, combined with remote sensing snow depth products such as AMSR-E, AMSR-2, NHSD and GlobSnow and reanalysis data such as ERA-Interim and MERRA-2. These gridded snow depth products and environmental factor variables are used as the input independent variables of the model. In situ observations of China Meteorological Station (945), Russia Meteorological Station (620), Russian snow survey data (514), and global historical meteorological network (41261) are used as reference truth to train and verify the model. The daily gridded snow depth dataset of the snow hydrological year from 1980 to 2019 (September 1 of the previous year to May 31 of the current year) is prepared on the cloud platform provided by the CASEarth. Since the passive microwave brightness temperature data from 1980 to 1987 is the data of every other day, there will be a small number of missing trips in the data during this period. Using the ESM-SnowMIP and independent ground observation data for verification, the quality of the fusion data set has been improved. According to the comparison between the ground observation data and the snow depth products before fusion, the determination coefficient (R2) of the fusion data is increased from 0.23 (GlobSnow snow depth product) to 0.81, and the corresponding root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE) are also reduced to 7.7 cm and 2.7 cm.
CHE Tao, HU Yanxing, DAI Liyun, XIAO Lin
This data set consists of tree ring carbon and oxygen data in East Asian monsoon region and Qilian Mountain region of China. Tree rings in Qilian mountain area include 4 tree cores, the tree species is Sabina przewalskii, and the measured isotopic data is 921. Cellulose was extracted from tree ring logs by chemical treatment, and the obtained cellulose samples were wrapped in a silver cup. The isotopic ratio was measured by Delta V advantage stable isotope mass spectrometer, and the analysis error was less than 0.21 ‰. The experimental analysis was completed in the laboratory of soil structure and minerals, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. This data has certain significance for the study of paleoclimate in East Asian monsoon region.
XU Chenxi
This data set is composed of tree ring width data of Qilian Mountain region of China in East Asian monsoon region . The tree rings in Qilian mountain contain 52 tree cores, which have 17081 values, the measurement accuracy is 0.01mm, and the tree species is Qilian juniper. The tree ring width was measured by lintab 6 tree ring analyzer, and the cross dating is checked by coffcha program to guarantee that the accuracy of the dating. The experiment analysis was performed in the laboratory of soil structure and minerals, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. This data has certain significance for the study of paleoclimate in the edge of East Asian monsoon region .
XU Chenxi
Geladandong region is an important and typical source region of great rivers and lakes in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. This data set provides DEM covering glaciers in the source region of the Yangtze River and Selin Co with different time scales and resolutions to calculate the seasonal and decadal changes of glacier surface elevation in the source region. This data set includes seven 5-meter resolution TanDEM-X data from July 2016 to 2017, which can be used to calculate the seasonal change of glacier surface elevation; it includes one KH-9 DEM with a resolution of 30m in 1976, five TanDEM-X with a resolution of 30m in 2011, one TanDEM-X in 2014 and three TanDEM-X in 2017 with a resolution of 30m. The data can be used to calculate the change of glacier surface elevation during 1976-2000, 2000-20112011-2017. At the same time, Landsat ETM data are used to extract the glacier outline in 1976and we divide it according to the RGI6.0; The right figure shows the spatial and temporal coverage information of the data set, and the base figure is the orthophoto corrected kh-9 image.
CHEN Wenfeng
The surface elevation of the ice sheet is very sensitive to climate change, so the elevation change of the ice sheet is considered as an important variable to evaluate climate change. The time series of long-term ice sheet surface elevation change has become a fundamental data for understanding climate change. The longest time series of ice sheet surface elevation can be established by combining the observation records of radar satellite altimetry missions. However, the previous methods for correcting the intermission bias still have error residue when cross-calibrating different missions. Therefore，we modify the commonly used plane-fitting least-squares regression model by restricting the correction of intermission bias and the ascending–descending bias at the same time to ensure the self-consistency and coherence of surface elevation time series across different missions. Based on this method, we use Envisat and CryoSat-2 data to construct the time series of Antarctic ice sheet elevation change from 2002 to 2019. The time series is the monthly grid data, and the spatial grid resolution is 5 km×5 km. Using airborne and satellite laser altimetry data to evaluate the results, it is found that compared with the traditional method, this method can improve the accuracy of intermission bias correction by 40%. Using the merged elevation time series, combining with firn densification-modeled volume changes due to surface processes, we find that ice dynamic processes make the ice sheet along the Amundsen Sea sector the largest volume loss of the Antarctic ice sheet. The surface processes dominate the volume changes in Totten Glacier sector, Dronning Maud Land, Princess Elizabeth Land, and the Bellingshausen Sea sector. Overall, accelerated volume loss in the West Antarctic continues to outpace the gains observed in the East Antarctic. The total volume change during 2002–2019 for the AIS was −68.7 ± 8.1 km3/y, with an acceleration of −5.5 ± 0.9 km3/y2.
ZHANG Baojun, WANG Zemin, YANG Quanming, LIU Jingbin, AN Jiachun, LI Fei, GENG Hong
This biophysical permafrost zonation map was produced using a rule-based GIS model that integrated a new permafrost extent, climate conditions, vegetation structure, soil and topographic conditions, as well as a yedoma map. Different from the previous maps, permafrost in this map is classified into five types: climate-driven, climate-driven/ecosystem-modified, climate-driven/ecosystem protected, ecosystem-driven, and ecosystem-protected. Excluding glaciers and lakes, the areas of these five types in the Northern Hemisphere are 3.66×106 km2, 8.06×106 km2, 0.62×106 km2, 5.79×106 km2, and 1.63×106 km2, respectively. 81% of the permafrost regions in the Northern Hemisphere are modified, driven, or protected by ecosystems, indicating the dominant role of ecosystems in permafrost stability in the Northern Hemisphere. Permafrost driven solely by climate occupies 19% of permafrost regions, mainly in High Arctic and high mountains areas, such as the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
RAN Youhua, M. Torre Jorgenson, LI Xin, JIN Huijun, Wu Tonghua, Li Ren, CHENG Guodong
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.
LEI Huimin
Kilometer-level spatially complete (seamless) land surface temperature products have a wide range of applications needs in climate change and other fields. Satellite retrieved LST has high reliability. Integrating the LST retrieved from thermal infrared and microwave remote sensing observation is an effective way to obtain the SLT with certain accuracy and spatial integrity. Based on this guiding ideology, the author developed a framework for retrieving 1km and seamless LST over China landmass, and generated the LST data set accordingly (2002-2020) Firstly, a look-up table based empirical retrieval algorithm is developed for retrieving microwave LST from AMSR-E/AMSR2 observations. Then, AMSR-E/AMSR2 LST is downscaled by using geographic weighted regression to obtain 1km LST. Finally, the multi-scale Kalman filter is used to fuse AMSR-E/AMSR2 LST and MODIS LST to generate a 1km seamless LST data set. The ground valuation results show that the root mean square error (RMSE) of the 1km seamless LST is about 3K. In addition, the spatial distribution of the 1km seamless LST is consistent with MODIS LST and CLDAS LST.
CHENG Jie, DONG Shengyue, SHI Jiancheng
Snow over sea ice controls the energy budgets, affects the sea ice growth/melting, and thus has essential climatic effects. Snow depth, one of the fundamental properties of snow cover, is essential for understanding of the rapid change in Antarctic climate and for sea ice thickness estimation. Passive microwave radiometer can be used for basin-scale snow depth estimation in daily scale, however, previous published methods applied for Antarctic snow depth shows clear underestimation, which limits their further application. Here, we construct a new and robust linear regression equation for snow depth retrieval using microwave radiometers by including lower frequencies, and we produce the snow depth product over Antarctic sea ice from 2002 to 2020 from AMSR-E, AMSR-2, SSMIS based on this method. A regression analysis using 7 years of Operation IceBridge (OIB) airborne snow depth measurements shows that the gradient ratio (GR) calculated using brightness temperatures in vertical polarized 37 and 19 GHz, i.e., GR(37/7), is the optimal one for deriving Antarctic snow depth with an root mean square deviation (RMSD) of 8.92 cm and a correlation coefficient of -0.64, the related equation coefficients are then derived. GR(37/19) is used to retrieve snow depth from SSMIS data to fill the observation gaps between AMSR-E and AMSR-2, and the estimated snow depth is corrected for the consistence with these from AMSR-E/2. An averaged uncertainty of 3.81 cm is found based on a Gaussian error propagation, which accounts for 12% of the estimated mean snow depth. The evaluation of proposed method with in-situ measurements from Australian Antarctic Data Centre shows that the proposed method outperforms the previous available method, with a mean difference of 5.64 cm and an RMSD of 13.79 cm, comparing to -14.47 cm and 19.49 cm. Comparison to shipborne observations from Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate indicates that the proposed method shows slight better performance than previous method (RMSDs of 16.85 cm and 17.61 cm, respectively); and comparable performances in growth and melting seasons suggests that the proposed method can still be used in the melting season. We generate a complete snow depth product over Antarctic sea ice from 2002 to 2020 in daily scale, and negative trends can be found in all sea sectors and seasons. This dataset can be further used in the reanalysis data evaluation, sea ice thickness estimation, climate model and other aspects.
SHEN Xiaoyi, KE Changqing
Land surface temperature (LST) is a key parameter in the study of surface energy balance. It is widely used in the fields of meteorology, climate, hydrology, agriculture and ecology. As an important means to obtain global and regional scale LST information, satellite (thermal infrared) remote sensing is vulnerable to the influence of cloud cover and other atmospheric conditions, resulting in temporal and spatial discontinuity of LST remote sensing products, which greatly limits the application of LST remote sensing products in related research fields. The preparation of this data set is based on the empirical orthogonal function interpolation method, using Terra / Aqua MODIS surface temperature products to reconstruct the lst under ideal clear sky conditions, and then using the cumulative distribution function matching method to fuse era5 land reanalysis data to obtain the lst under all-weather conditions. This method makes full use of the spatio-temporal information of the original MODIS remote sensing products and the cloud impact information in the reanalysis data, alleviates the impact of cloud cover on LST estimation, and finally reconstructs the high-quality global 0.05 ° spatio-temporal continuous ideal clear sky and all-weather LST data set. This data set not only realizes the seamless coverage of space-time, but also has good verification accuracy. The reconstructed ideal clear sky LST data in the experimental areas of 17 land cover types in the world, the average correlation coefficient (R) is 0.971, the bias (bias) is -0.001 K to 0.049 K, and the root mean square error (RMSE) is 1.436 K to 2.688 K. The verification results of the reconstructed all-weather LST data and the measured data of ground stations: the average R is 0.895, the bias is 0.025 K to 2.599 K, and the RMSE is 4.503 K to 7.299 K. The time resolution of this data set is 4 times a day, the spatial resolution is 0.05 °, the time span is 2002-2020, and the spatial range covers the world.
ZHAO Tianjie, YU Pei
This data set includes the average concentrations of chemical species (Na+, K+, Mg2+, Ca2+ and TDS) in meltwater runoff draining 77 glaciers worldwide, annual glacial runoff from eight mountain ranges in Asia, and the mineral compositions of glacial deposits in some typical glacial catchments within Asia. This data set comes from the field monitoring of 19 glaciers in Asia by the data set provider, the previous published data worldwide, and the data shared by the authors of published papers. This data set can be used to evaluate the impact of climate warming on glacier erosion process and chemical weathering process, and the impact of glacier melt caused by climate warming on downstream ecosystems and element cycles.
LI Xiangying
China's daily snow depth simulation and prediction data set is the estimated daily snow depth data of China in the future based on the nex-gdpp model data set. The artificial neural network model of snow depth simulation takes the maximum temperature, minimum temperature, precipitation data and snow depth data of the day as the input layer of the model, The snow depth data of the next day is used as the target layer of the model to build the model, and then the snow depth simulation model is trained and verified by using the data of the national meteorological station. The model verification results show that the iterative space-time simulation ability of the model is good; The spatial correlations of the simulated and verified values of cumulative snow cover duration and cumulative snow depth are 0.97 and 0.87, and the temporal and spatial correlations of cumulative snow depth are 0.92 and 0.91, respectively. Based on the optimal model, this model is used to iteratively simulate the daily snow depth data in China in the future. The data set can provide data support for future snow disaster risk assessment, snow cover change research and climate change research in China. The basic information of the data is as follows: historical reference period (1986-2005) and future (2016-2065), as well as rcp4.5 and rcp8.5 scenarios and 20 climate models. Its spatial resolution is 0.25 ° * 0.25 °. The projection mode of the data is ease GR, and the data storage format is NC format. The following is the data file information in NC Time: duration (unit: day) Lon = 320 matrix, 320 columns in total Lat = 160 matrix, 160 rows in total X Dimension: Xmin = 60.125; // Coordinates of the corner points of the lower left corner grid in the X direction of the matrix Y Dimension: Ymin = 15.125; // Coordinates of the corner points of the grid at the lower left corner of the Y-axis of the matrix
CHEN Hongju, YANG Jianping, DING Yongjian
This data is precipitation data, which is the monthly precipitation product of tropical rainfall measurement mission TRMM 3b43. It integrates the main area of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau (25 ~ 40 ° n; 25 ~ 40 ° n); The precipitation data of 332 meteorological stations are from the National Meteorological Information Center of China Meteorological Administration. The reanalysis data set is obtained by the station 3 ° interpolation optimization variational correction method. For the monthly sample data from January 1998 to December 2018, the spatial coverage is 25 ~ 40 ° n; 73 ~ 105 ° e, the spatial resolution is 1 ° * 1 °.
XU Xiangde, SUN Chan
The data set is the seasonal hydrological observation data of the Yellow River from the hydrological station of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. There are two hydrological stations: 1. Longmen hydrological station in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, which is the weekly hydrological data in 2013, including water temperature (T), runoff (QW), physical erosion rate (per) and pH. 2. Tangnaihai hydrological station of the Yellow River is monthly data from July 2012 to June 2014, including runoff (QW), sediment (salt), pH and EC. The data set was commissioned to be observed by the staff of the hydrological station of the Yellow River Water Conservancy Commission to provide basic hydrological data for the study of hydrology, hydrochemistry and hydrosphere cycle under the background of Qinghai Tibet Plateau uplift.
JIN Zhangdong, ZHAO Zhiqi
The data coverage area is Sichuan Tibet traffic corridor, which is vector line data. The data defines its active period and names it. The strike, nature, active period and exposure of the fault are described. However, the content is missing, and the secondary fault zone is not named. There are 590 linear elements within the Sichuan Tibet traffic corridor in this data set, but some linear elements are multiple elements of the same fault zone. The active fault zone is often the combination zone of different plates and different blocks. It is a relatively weak zone of the crust, which is easy to induce extremely serious earthquake disasters. It is also a concentrated development zone of geological disasters such as collapse, landslide and debris flow. The judgment of the location and nature of fault zone is of great significance to the risk susceptibility evaluation of geological disasters, and it is the key factor to study geological disasters.
WANG Lixuan
The Tibet-Obs established in 2008 consists of three regional-scale soil moisture (SM) monitoring networks, i.e. the Maqu, Naqu, and Ngari (including Ali and Shiquanhe) networks. This surface SM dataset includes the original 15-min in situ measurements collected at a depth of 5 cm by multiple SM monitoring sites of all the networks, and the spatially upscaled SM records produced for the Maqu and Shiquanhe networks.
ZHANG Pei, ZHENG Donghai, WEN Jun, ZENG Yijian, WANG Xin, WANG Zuoliang, MA Yaoming, SU Zhongbo
In recent years, the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet has accelerated, and a large amount of surface melt water has appeared on the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet. Understandings of the spatial distribution and dynamics of surface melt water on the Antarctic ice sheet is of great significance for the study of the mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet. This dataset is 2000-2020 surface melt water dataset of Antarctica Ice Sheet typical melting area (Prydz bay) based on 10-30m Landsat-7, 8 and Sentinel-2 images. The projections are polar azimuthal projections in vector format (ESRI Shapefile) and raster format (GeoTIFF) and the time is Southern Hemisphere summer (December-to-February).
YANG Kang
Snow water equivalent (SWE) is an important parameter of the surface hydrological model and climate model. The data is based on the ridge regression algorithm of machine learning, which integrates a variety of existing snow water equivalent data products to form a set of snow water equivalent data products with continuous time series and high accuracy. The spatial range of the data is Pan-Arctic (45 N° to 90 N °), The data time series is 1979-2019. The dataset is expected to provide more accurate snow water equivalent data for the hydrological and climate model, and provide data support for cryosphere change and global change.
LI Hongyi, SHAO Donghang, LI Haojie, WANG Weiguo, MA Yuan, LEI Huajin
The data set mainly includes typical rare earth deposits in China, such as Maoniuping and Lizhuang rare earth deposits in Mianning, Western Sichuan, and Gansha OBO rare earth deposits in Gansu Province. These rare earth deposits are genetically related to carbonate alkaline rock complex. In situ U-Pb dating, whole rock major and trace elements, Sr nd Pb radioisotopes, C-O-B-Ca stable isotopes and mineral in situ major and trace elements contents of rocks or ores in these complexes were analyzed. The major elements were measured by X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (XRF), the trace elements were measured by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), and the isotopes were mainly measured by mc-icp-ms. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) it is revealed that the magma source area of alkaline carbonate type REE deposit experienced the addition of strong subduction material, and its formation depth may be deeper than previously thought（2) It is revealed that the aegirization may be related to carbonatite and alkaline magmatism, and there may be differences in the aegirization between the two types of magma（3) The later reformation of the rare earth deposits with younger age may be relatively weak, while the rare earth deposits with older age are easy to be influenced by the later geological process and difficult to distinguish.
WENG Qiang, LI Ningbo, LI Ao
The dataset is the normalized difference water index (NDWI) products from 1970s to 2020 over the Tibetan Plateau。The dataset is producted based on Landsat surface reflectance dataset. It is calculated by the NDWI equation which use the difference ratio between the green band and NIR band to enhance the water information, and then to weaken the information of vegetation, soil, buildings and other targets.And the corresponding production of quality identification documents (QA) is also generated to identify the cloud, ice and snow.NDWI is usually used to extract surface water information effectively, therefore it is widely used in water resoureces, hydrology, forestry and agriculture.
PENG Yan
Based on the analysis of brgdgts and hydrogen isotopes of leaf wax in lake sediments from Tengchong Qinghai (tcqh) in Yunnan Province, this study shows for the first time the high-resolution annual average temperature change history of low latitude land since the last glacial period (since the last 88000 years). According to the annual average temperature of South Asia established by tcqh core, there are two warm periods of 88000-71000 years and 45000-22000 years in this region, and the temperature range is about 2-3 ° C. Since the Holocene, the temperature has been increasing for about 1-2 years ° C。
ZHAO Cheng
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.
Li Jia Li Jia LI Jia LI Jia
Data content: The data set products include impervious surface products with a resolution of 10 meters in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which can be used as a key parameter for related research on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau ecosystem. Data source and processing method: Product inversion is mainly based on Sentinel series data, considering joint features, combining depth spatial features, long-time NDVI and other exponential features, and topographic features, and using random forest model to achieve impervious surface information extraction. Data quality: The overall accuracy is high. Data application results and prospects: The data set will be continuously updated and can be used to further clarify the impact of human activities on the ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
WANG Guizhou
Based on AVHRR-CDR SR products, a daily cloud-free snow cover extent dataset with a spatial resolution of 5 km from 1981 to 2019 was prepared by using decision tree classification method. Each HDF4 file contains 18 data elements, including data value, data start date, longitude and latitude, etc. At the same time, to quickly preview the snow distribution, the daily file contains the snow area thumbnail, which is stored in JPG format. This data set will be continuously supplemented and improved according to the real-time satellite remote sensing data and algorithm update (up to may 2019), and will be fully open and shared.
HAO Xiaohua
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