A 40-year moisture source data for Tibetan Plateau precipitation using a 3D Lagrangian approach

This repository contains the dataset that reproduces the work by Cheng et al. (2024). The zip files contain data in netCDF format. They consist of

Data of Figures 1-5 in the article (Cheng et al. 2024)

Moisture sources of precipitation in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) 

TP_moisture_source_1971-2010.nc: Global map (lon,lat,time) of 40 years of moisture source (mm/day) contributing to the TP precipitation based on the FLEXPART-WaterSip approach

SR_1971-2010_TP_grids_1x1_XXX.nc: Fractional contributions of different circulation regimes to each of 302 1˚x1˚ grids on the TP

Multi-product ensemble mean precipitation and evapotranspiration

Boundary data of TP river basins used in the study

For any enquiries, feel free to contact Dr. Tat Fan (Franklin) Cheng at [e-mail]. Please cite our two recent articles if you found the dataset useful. Thank you!

References

Cheng, T. F., Chen, D., Wang, B., Ou, T. & Lu, M. (2024). Human-induced warming accelerates local evapotranspiration and precipitation recycling over the Tibetan Plateau. Commun Earth Environ 5, 388. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01563-9  

Cheng, T. F., & Lu, M. (2023). Global Lagrangian Tracking of Continental Precipitation Recycling, Footprints, and Cascades. Journal of Climate, 36, 1923–1941. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0185.1