About the Authors

Xuelong Chen

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

Juan A. Añel

Affiliations Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, EPhysLab, Fac. of Sciences, Universidade de Vigo, Ourense, Spain

Zhongbo Su

Affiliation Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

Laura de la Torre

Affiliation EPhysLab, Fac. of Sciences, Universidade de Vigo, Ourense, Spain

Hennie Kelder

Affiliation Eindhoven University, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Jacob van Peet

Affiliation Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), Utricht, The Netherlands

Yaoming Ma

ymma@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

Competing Interests

Co-author Juan A. Añel is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YMM XLC. Performed the experiments: XLC. Analyzed the data: XLC JAA LT HK JVP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZBS. Wrote the paper: XLC JAA HK.