High resolution data set of annual lake areas and water storage across the Inner Tibet, 2002-2015

• Main Authors: Yao, Fangfang, Wang, Jida, Yang, Kehan, Wang, Chao, Walter, Blake A, Crétaux, Jean-François
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2018
• Subjects: Inner_Tibet_Region; MULT; Multiple investigations; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.888706; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.888706

Alpine lakes in the interior of Tibet, the endorheic Changtang Plateau (CP), serve as "sentinels" of regional climate change. Recent studies indicated that accelerated climate change has driven a widespread area expansion in lakes across the CP, but comprehensive and accurate quantificatio...