Thermokarst lake and pond dataset of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP)

• Main Author: Zhiqiang, Wei
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Active layer thickness; permafrost; Thermokarst
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5115802; https://zenodo.org/record/5115802

Dataset supporting: "Sentinel-based inventory of thermokarst lakes and ponds across permafrost landscapes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau" Zhiqiang Wei 1 , Zhiheng Du 2 , Lei Wang 3 , Jiahui Lin 3 , Yaru Feng 3 , Qian Xu 2 , Cunde Xiao 3* These dataset contain five polygon vector files (.shp), which include thermokarst lakes and ponds ranging from 500 m 2 to 3 × 10 6 m 2 across the entire QTP permafrost landscapes. Attribute items contain: Area (m 2 ), Long (Longitude), Lati (Latitude), Perm_Type (Permafrost type), Elevation (m), Basin (Basin distribution), Annual_Tem (Mean annual air temperature, ℃), Annual_Pre (Mean annual precipitation, mm), Therm_Stab (Permafrost ground thermal stability), ALT (Active layer thickness, m), Vegetation (Vegetation type), NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), Soil_Tex (Soil texture), SAWC (Soil available water storage capacity, mm/m). The data can be opened and processed by ArcGIS software (version 10.0 or later). Please cite this data set as below: Wei, Z., Du, Z., Wang, L., Lin, J., Feng, Y., Xu, Q., & Xiao, C. (2021). Sentinel-based inventory of thermokarst lakes and ponds across permafrost landscapes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Earth and Space Science, 8(11), e2021EA001950. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA001950