Frozen Soil Data

    Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, CAS has a state key laboratory  and a field station to study on the frozen soil especially.  The State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering founded in 1992 is an important laboratory in permafrost research in the world. The Intergrated Observation and Research on the Tibetan Plateau mainly conducts the observation and research on permafrost, cold region environment and atmospheric physics on the plateau.

The following items give the data catalog that they have measured.

• Temperature Data of the Boreholes along Qinghai-Tibet Road (Samples)

• The Map of Geocryological Regionalization and Classification in China

• Permafrost Table and Permafrost Base Measured by Meteorological Stations

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