Unsustainable water supply from thawing permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau in a changing climate

Affiliations

• ¹ State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
• ² State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ³ Institute of Cold Region Science and Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China; State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China.
• ⁴ National Tibetan Plateau Data Center, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
• ⁵ State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China; Institute of Urban Study, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China.