A lake data set for the Tibetan Plateau from the 1960s, 2005, and 2014.
Long-term datasets of number and size of lakes over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are among the most critical components for better understanding the interactions among the cryosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere at regional and global scales. Due to the harsh environment and the scarcity of data over the TP, data accumulation and sharing become more valuable for scientists worldwide to make new discoveries in this region. This paper, for the first time, presents a comprehensive and freely available data set of lakes' status (name, location, shape, area, perimeter, etc.) over the TP region dating back to the 1960s, including three time series, i.e., the 1960s, 2005, and 2014, derived from ground survey (the 1960s) or high-spatial-resolution satellite images from the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite (CBERS) (2005) and China's newly launched GaoFen-1 (GF-1, which means high-resolution images in Chinese) satellite (2014). The data set could provide scientists with useful information for revealing environmental changes and mechanisms over the TP region.
State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.|Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Wei
W
Wan
State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.|Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Di
D
Long
State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.|Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Yang
Y
Hong
State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.|Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Yingzhao
Y
Ma
School of Geosciences, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, China.
Yuan
Y
Yuan
Department of Geographical Information Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Pengfeng
P
Xiao
State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China.
Hongtao
H
Duan
State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.|Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Zhongying
Z
Han
Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.|The Center for National Spaceborne Demonstration, Beijing 100101, China.
Xingfa
X
Gu