Thermokarst lake and pond dataset of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP)

Dataset supporting:

"Sentinel-based inventory of thermokarst lakes and ponds across permafrost landscapes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau"

Zhiqiang Wei¹, Zhiheng Du², Lei Wang³, Jiahui Lin³, Yaru Feng³, Qian Xu², Cunde Xiao^3*

These dataset contain five polygon vector files (.shp), which include thermokarst lakes and ponds ranging from 500 m² to 3 × 10⁶ m² across the entire QTP permafrost landscapes. Attribute items contain: Area (m²), Long (Longitude), Lati (Latitude), Perm_Type (Permafrost type), Elevation (m), Basin (Basin distribution), Annual_Tem (Mean annual air temperature, ℃), Annual_Pre (Mean annual precipitation, mm), Therm_Stab (Permafrost ground thermal stability), ALT (Active layer thickness, m), Vegetation (Vegetation type), NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), Soil_Tex (Soil texture), SAWC (Soil available water storage capacity, mm/m). The data can be opened and processed by ArcGIS software (version 10.0 or later).

Please cite this data set as below:

Wei, Z., Du, Z., Wang, L., Lin, J., Feng, Y., Xu, Q., & Xiao, C. (2021). Sentinel-based inventory of thermokarst lakes and ponds across permafrost landscapes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Earth and Space Science, 8(11), e2021EA001950. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA001950