The data include three files on the spatial variation of surface elevation of endorheic glaciers in the Tibetan Plateau from 1975-2000 (100m), the mean elevation change values of glaciers in each sub-basin of the endorheic region from 1975-2020, and the basin boundaries and zoning. The glacier surface elevation changes from 1975-2000 were obtained based on 32 pairs of KH-9 data and NASADEM, where the results for the Muzetag and Puruogangri areas were obtained from Zhou et al. (2018) and Bhattacharya et al. (2021) respectively The average elevation change results for each 5-year period from 1995-2020 for the respective basins were obtained based on data published by Huggonet et al. (2021), and here it is assumed that the glacier thickness changes from 1995-2000 are similar to those from 2000-2005. Due to the limitation of KH-9 data quality and the glacier characteristics in the instream area, there are many null areas, and it is recommended to combine the zoning and calculate the change results for each elevation zone first, and then project them to each sub-basin.

File naming and required software

The data formats are geotif and shapefile, which can be opened by QGIS or ArcGIS.
dhdt1975-2000_innerTibetan Plateau indicates the spatial distribution of glacier surface elevation changes in the inner basin
MB_1975-2020 indicates the average surface elevation change of each basin from 1975 to 2020
subregion indicates each watershed and subregion

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Chen, W., Zhang, G. (2022). Glacier surface elevation changes in the Tibetan Plateau's endorheic basin (1975-2020). A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, DOI: 10.11888/Cryos.tpdc.272860. CSTR: 18406.11.Cryos.tpdc.272860. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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1. Chen, W., Liu, Y., Zhang, G., Yang, K., Zhou, T., Wang, J., & Shum, C. K. (2022). What Controls Lake Contraction and Then Expansion in Tibetan Plateau's Endorheic Basin Over the Past Half Century? Geophysical Research Letters, 49(20). doi:10.1029/2022gl101200( View Details | Bibtex)

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References literature

1.Zhou, Y., Li, Z., Li, J., Zhao, R., & Ding, X. (2018). Glacier mass balance in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and its surroundings from the mid-1970s to 2000 based on Hexagon KH-9 and SRTM DEMs. Remote Sensing of Environment, 210, 96-112. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.020 (View Details )

2.Hugonnet, R., McNabb, R., Berthier, E., Menounos, B., Nuth, C., Girod, L., . . . Kääb, A. (2021). Accelerated global glacier mass loss in the early twenty-first century. Nature, 592(7856), 726-731. doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03436-z (View Details )

3.Bhattacharya, A., Bolch, T., Mukherjee, K., King, O., Menounos, B., Kapitsa, V., . . . Yao, T. (2021). High Mountain Asian glacier response to climate revealed by multi-temporal satellite observations since the 1960s. Nature Communications, 12(1). doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24180-y (View Details )

Support Program

Basic Science Center forTibetan Plateau Earth System (No:41988101-03)

Strategic Priority Research Program (A) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No:XDA20060201)

Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (No:2019QZKK0201)

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