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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ESSDD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Earth System Science Data Discussions</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ESSDD</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1866-3591</issn>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/essd-2026-180</article-id>
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<article-title>TPHH: A long-term (1901&amp;ndash;2023) high-resolution (1/30&amp;deg;) near-surface humidity dataset for the Tibetan Plateau generated via spatial downscaling based on hybrid-structure deep learning</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jin</surname>
<given-names>Zheng</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3643-7314</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Chen</surname>
<given-names>Zezhou</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6796-6043</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>You</surname>
<given-names>Qinglong</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Liu</surname>
<given-names>Zhaoxiang</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Jintao</given-names>
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<sup>5</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hu</surname>
<given-names>Huan</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Chen</surname>
<given-names>Ping</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Liu</surname>
<given-names>Xiang</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Zipeng</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Kai</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lian</surname>
<given-names>Shiguo</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kang</surname>
<given-names>Shichang</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>College of Geography and Planning, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Data Science &amp; Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, China Unicom, No. 21 Financial Street, Beijing 100013, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Unicom Data Intelligence, China Unicom, No. 21 Financial Street, Beijing 100013, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences &amp; Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>Yunnan Key Laboratory of Plateau Geographical Process and Environmental Changes, Faculty of Geography, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650050, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610299, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>17</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>28</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Zheng Jin et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
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<p>The Tibetan Plateau acts as the &quot;Asian Water Tower&quot; and faces regional amplified warming compared to the global climate change baseline. Given the Tibet Plateau&amp;rsquo;s pronounced alpine terrain, i.e., significant elevation gradients within short horizontal distances, studies on climate changes/dynamics over this mountainous region fundamentally depend on spatially high-resolution datasets. However, most of currently available spatially high-resolution datasets only extend back to the 1980s, with prolonged temporal coverage data of pre-satellite era remaining scarce, especially for near surface atmospheric humidity. Thus, our study implements a hybrid-structure-based deep learning framework to generate monthly 2 m specific humidity, 2 m temperature and surface pressure at 1/30&amp;deg; &amp;times; 1/30&amp;deg; horizontal resolution during 1901&amp;ndash;2023. Briefly, employing a hybrid-structure model (FourCastNet by NVIDIA&amp;reg;), historical high-resolution fields (1/30&amp;deg; &amp;times; 1/30&amp;deg; covering 1901&amp;ndash;2023) are generated based on long-range low-resolution (0.5&amp;deg; &amp;times; 0.5&amp;deg; covering 1901&amp;ndash;2023 from CRU) and short-range high-resolution fields (1/30&amp;deg; &amp;times; 1/30&amp;deg; covering 1978&amp;ndash;2023 from TPMFD) via spatial downscaling. The produced data were validated against multiple related datasets, with independent in-situ site observations serving as the reference, and showed superior performance compared to most of them. Our study demonstrates that in topographically complex regions like the Tibetan Plateau, where meteorological fields exhibit strong physical dependencies on terrain, the synergistic mapping between total-field signals and subregional terrain constraints can be effectively achieved through hybrid-structure deep learning, thereby enabling this physically-consistent downscaling approach. Open access to this dataset is at &lt;a href=&quot;https://doi.org/10.57760/sciencedb.36169&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;https://doi.org/10.57760/sciencedb.36169&lt;/a&gt;.</p>
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<funding-source>National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
<award-id>42505115</award-id>
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<funding-source>Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Support Program</funding-source>
<award-id>2025ZNSFSC1135</award-id>
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<funding-source>Fudan University</funding-source>
<award-id>Shanghai Key Laboratory of Ocean-land-atmosphere Boundary Dynamics and Climate Change (FDAOS-OP202411)</award-id>
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<funding-source>Chengdu University of Technology</funding-source>
<award-id>Everest Initiative Interdisciplinary Team Project (2024ZF11422)</award-id>
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