1. Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environmental Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing China
2. CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences; Beijing China
3. Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences; Peking University; Beijing China
4. Department of Geography; University of Zurich; Zurich Switzerland
5. Institute for Cartography; Technische Universität Dresden; Dresden Germany
6. Laboratory for Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics; University of Texas at San Antonio; San Antonio Texas USA
7. Regional Climate Group, Department of Earth Sciences; University of Gothenburg; Gothenburg Sweden
8. Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute; CAS; Lanzhou China
9. Department of Geography-Geology; Illinois State University; Normal Illinois USA
10. Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth's Dynamics, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics; CAS; Wuhan China
11. Division of Geodetic Science, School of Earth Sciences; Ohio State University; Columbus Ohio USA
12. Key Laboratory of Computational Geodynamics; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing China
13. Geography Department; National University of Singapore; Singapore