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100 years of lake evolution over the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau
State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
Wei Wan
Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
Wei Luo
State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, Qujing, Yunnan, China
Wenfeng Chen
State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Fenglin Xu
State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Xin Li
State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Short summary
Lakes can be effective indicators of climate change, especially over the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Here, we provide the most comprehensive lake mapping covering the past 100 years. The new features of this data set are (1) its temporal length, providing the longest period of lake observations from maps, (2) the data set provides a state-of-the-art lake inventory for the Landsat era (from the 1970s to 2020), and (3) it provides the densest lake observations for lakes with areas larger than 1 km2.
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