Correction to: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00637-x, published online 29 April 2024

In this article the affiliation details for Authors “Meng Gao and **ang **ao” were incorrectly given as ‘1Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Plateau Climate Change and Corresponding Ecological and Environmental Effects, Qinghai University of Science and Technology, **ning 810016, China’ but should have been ‘2Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China’. The original article has been corrected.