About the Authors

Bin Qu

Affiliation Laboratory of Green Chemistry, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Mikkeli, Finland

Mika Sillanpää

Affiliations Laboratory of Green Chemistry, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Mikkeli, Finland, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Chaoliu Li

lichaoliu@itpcas.ac.cn

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

Shichang Kang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Norwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Aron Stubbins

Affiliation Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Department of Marine Science, University of Georgia, Savannah, Georgia, United States of America

Fangping Yan

Affiliation Laboratory of Green Chemistry, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Mikkeli, Finland

Kelly Sue Aho

Affiliation Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Feng Zhou

Affiliation Sino-France Institute of Earth Systems Science, Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Peter A. Raymond

Affiliation Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PAR AS CL MS SK BQ FY KA. Data curation: BQ AS. Formal analysis: BQ AS. Funding acquisition: CL MS SK. Investigation: KA. Methodology: BQ. Resources: FZ.