supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.41101055);the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences granted to Tonghua Wu (Grant No.51Y251571);the “National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program)” (Grant No.2010CB951402)
In this paper, an updated vegetation map of the permafrost zone in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) was delineated. The vegetation map model was extracted from vegetation sampling with remote sensing (RS) datasets ...
supported by a grant from the National Program on Key Basic Research Project(973 Program,Grant No. 2010CB951404);the Chinese National Science Foundation (Grant Nos.40830533,40901042 and 40701029);the State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering (Grant No. SKLFSE200805)
The change trends of air temperature,precipitation and evaporation from 1999 to 2008 shows that the climate in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau permafrost region had become warmer.The analysis of the systematic active-layer ...
supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40830533; No.40871037);the Major State Basic Research Develop-ment Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2005CB422003;No. 2007CB411505; No. 2007CB411505)
In the last several decades, the underlying surface conditions on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have changed dramatically, causing permafrost degradation due to climate change and human activities. This change severely in...