Erratum to: Environ Earth Sci DOI 10.1007/s12665-010-0728-7

Unfortunately the authors affiliations were incorrect.

The correct information is given below:

W. Cao · Y. Sheng (✉) · J. Li · J. Wu

State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, China

e-mail: sheng@lzb.ac.cn

W. Cao

School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, Jiangsu, China

e-mail: caowei@smail.nju.edu.cn

Y. Qin

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931-1295, USA