National Tibetan Plateau/Third Pole Environment Data Center（TPDC）

The National Tibetan Plateau Data Center (TPDC) is one of the first of 20 national data centers established in 2019 by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China. It is the only data center in China with the most complete scientific data for the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding regions. TPDC is hosted by the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of Chinese Academy of Sciences (ITPCAS), with support from Lanzhou University, Beijing Normal University, and Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences. ITPCAS also hosts the Third Pole Environment (TPE) International Program Office. Over the years, Third Pole Environment (TPE), an international program for interdisciplinary study of the Third Pole region and beyond, has built a global 3D observation network in the region to monitor environmental changes at the Third Pole and beyond. Data from the TPE observation network are stored and managed in the TPE Big Data Systems managed by TPDC. TPDC stores, integrates, analyses, excavates and publishes scientific data from the Third Pole and its surrounding areas, currently (as of June 2020) including over 2,000 datasets covering geography, atmospheric science, cryospheric science, hydrology, ecology, geology, geophysics, natural resource science as well as social sciences, all available for global users via the TPE global network. Data from the “Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP),” will also be integrated into the system.

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Source http://data.tpdc.ac.cn/en/data
Last Updated May 26, 2021, 02:31 (UTC)
Created December 10, 2020, 12:37 (UTC)
Country China
Data Management Others
Data Policy We adopt a CC-BY 4.0 license by default. The license allows the reuse and redistribution of the data. However, a small portion of our datasets are available only through an offline service because of the restrictions from data owners. No charge is associated with either online or offline data distribution.
Data Sharing Principle We adopt a CC-BY 4.0 license by default. The license allows the reuse and redistribution of the data. However, a small portion of our datasets are available only through an offline service because of the restrictions from data owners. No charge is associated with either online or offline data distribution. A CC license is among several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of copyrighted work. A summary of the CC-BY 4.0 license is as follows: You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute of the material in any medium or in any format. Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even for commercial use. The licensor cannot revoke these rights as long as you follow the license terms: Attribution — you must provide appropriate credit, include a link to the license, and indicate whether any changes were made. No additional restrictions — you may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. The copyright of all data belongs to the original data authors. Data users should cite the use of the data in their work with a formal citation. The appropriate citations can be found on the landing page and can be copied and pasted into the documentation. In addition, please acknowledge the “National Tibetan Plateau Data Center” in your work. Please browse our webpage “How to Cite Data” for detailed information regarding the citation format. Furthermore, please send us one reprint of the published work for our collection. A citation acknowledges the data contributors and helps track the use and impact of the data.