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Retrogressive thaw slumps along the Qinghai–Tibet Engineering Corridor: a comprehensive inventory and their distribution characteristics
Zhuoxuan Xia
Earth System Science Programme, Faculty of Science, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Lingcao Huang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Earth System Science Programme, Faculty of Science, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
now at: Earth Science and Observation Center, Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado
Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Chengyan Fan
Key Laboratory of West China's Environments (DOE), College of Earth
and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Shichao Jia
Key Laboratory of West China's Environments (DOE), College of Earth
and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Zhanjun Lin
Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
Earth System Science Programme, Faculty of Science, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Jing Luo
Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
Fujun Niu
Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
Tingjun Zhang
Key Laboratory of West China's Environments (DOE), College of Earth
and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
deceased
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Short summary
Retrogressive thaw slumps are slope failures resulting from abrupt permafrost thaw, and are widely distributed along the Qinghai–Tibet Engineering Corridor. The potential damage to infrastructure and carbon emission of thaw slumps motivated us to obtain an inventory of thaw slumps. We used a semi-automatic method to map 875 thaw slumps, filling the knowledge gap of thaw slump locations and providing key benchmarks for analysing the distribution features and quantifying spatio-temporal changes.
Retrogressive thaw slumps are slope failures resulting from abrupt permafrost thaw, and are...
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