Spatial distribution of air temperature in high-elevation glacierized regions: from observations in four catchments on the Tibetan Plateau - Guliya data
This dataset presents monthly near-surface air temperature distributions (January–October 2019) for Guliya Glacier, an outlet glacier of the western Kunlun Mountains’ ice cap on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The 30 m resolution temperature fields were derived from ground-based meteorological observations at seven glacier stations, spatially interpolated and refined using Landsat 8 data as a geographic reference framework. Data graph visualizations of the errors between spatially interpolated temperatures and ground measurements were quantified using Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of °C and standard deviation (SD) of °C, presented in the Temperature_Error Graphs (PDF format). The dataset serves as a reference for evaluating spatial interpolation accuracy in high-altitude cryospheric systems, supporting climate modeling, glacier mass balance studies, and environmental monitoring.
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Wang, Tianyun; Yang, Lu; Zhang, Deyuan; Zhou, Juncheng; Zhou, Tao; Song, Haolin (2025). Spatial distribution of air temperature in high-elevation glacierized regions: from observations in four catchments on the Tibetan Plateau. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/HGR