About the Authors

Yulan Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, Laboratory of Green Chemistry, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Sammonkatu 12, FI-Mikkeli, Finland

Shichang Kang

shichang.kang@lzb.ac.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Qianggong Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Tanguang Gao

Affiliation Key laboratory of Western China’s Environmental System (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Junming Guo

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Bjorn Grigholm

Affiliation Climate Change Institute and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

Jie Huang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Mika Sillanpää

Affiliation Laboratory of Green Chemistry, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Sammonkatu 12, FI-Mikkeli, Finland

Xiaofei Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China

Wentao Du

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China

Yang Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xinlei Ge

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment Monitoring and Pollution Control (AEMPC), School of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK YZ. Performed the experiments: YZ QZ JH JG XL YL MS XG WD. Analyzed the data: YZ TG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ JG. Wrote the paper: YZ. Perception and design: YZ SK. Surgical operation: YZ SK. Final approval of the version to be published: YZ SK. Participation in the file work and experiment: QZ TG JG BG JH MS XL WD YL XG. Drafting of the article: QZ TG JG BG JH MS XL WD YL XG. Data analysis and discussion: QZ TG JG BG JH MS XL WD YL XG.