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Data description paper
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17 Feb 2022
Data description paper |
| 17 Feb 2022
| 17 Feb 2022
Black carbon and organic carbon dataset over the Third Pole
Shichang Kang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of
Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000,
China
College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of
Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000,
China
Pengfei Chen
State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of
Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000,
China
Junming Guo
State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of
Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000,
China
Qianggong Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and
Environment, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Zhiyuan Cong
State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and
Environment, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Susan Kaspari
Department of Geological Sciences, Central Washington University,
Ellensburg, Washington, USA
Lekhendra Tripathee
State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of
Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000,
China
Tanguang Gao
Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry
of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou
University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Hewen Niu
State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of
Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000,
China
Xinyue Zhong
Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing of Gansu Province, Northwest
Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Lanzhou 730000, China
Xintong Chen
State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of
Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000,
China
Zhaofu Hu
State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of
Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000,
China
Xiaofei Li
School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shannxi University
of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710021, China
Yang Li
Institute of International Rivers and Eco-security, Yunnan
University, Kunming 650091, Yunnan, China
Bigyan Neupane
School of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou
510631, China
Fangping Yan
State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of
Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000,
China
Dipesh Rupakheti
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment Monitoring and
Pollution Control, Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric
Environment and Equipment Technology, School of Environmental Science and
Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology,
Nanjing 210044, China
Chaman Gul
Reading Academy, Nanjing University of Information Science and
Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Wei Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of
Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000,
China
Guangming Wu
State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and
Environment, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Ling Yang
State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of
Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000,
China
Zhaoqing Wang
Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry
of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou
University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Chaoliu Li
State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of
Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000,
China
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Short summary
The Tibetan Plateau is important to the Earth’s climate. However, systematically observed data here are scarce. To perform more integrated and in-depth investigations of the origins and distributions of atmospheric pollutants and their impacts on cryospheric change, systematic data of black carbon and organic carbon from the atmosphere, glaciers, snow cover, precipitation, and lake sediment cores over the plateau based on the Atmospheric Pollution and Cryospheric Change program are provided.
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