Tandong Yao

Selected publications

Paleo-climate and –environment reconstruction from Tibetan ice cores

Zhao,H.B., B.Q.Xu, T.D.Yao, L.D.Tian, Z.Li, 2011. Records of sulfate and nitrate in an ice core from Mount Muztagata, central Asia, J. Geophys. Res-Atmos, 116, D13304, doi: 10.1029/2011JD015735.
Joswiak, D.J., T. Yao, G. Wu, B. Xu, W. Zheng, 2011. A 70-yr record of oxygen-18 variability in an ice core from the Tanggula Mountains, central Tibetan Plateau, Climate of the Past, 6 (2): 219-227.
Yao, T., K.Duan, B.Xu, N.Wang, X.Guo, X. Yang, 2008. Precipitation record since AD 1600 from ice cores on the central Tibetan Plateau, Climate of the Past, 4(3):175-180.
Duan, K., T. Yao, and L. G. Thompson, 2006. Response of monsoon precipitation in the Himalayas to global warming, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D19110, doi:10.1029/2006JD007084.
Meixue Yang, Tandong Yao, Huijun Wang and Xiaohua Gou, 2006. Climatic oscillations over the past 120 kyr recorded in the Guliya ice core, China. Quaternary International,154-155: 11-18.
Duan Keqin, Yao Tandong, Thompson LG, 2004. Low-frequency of southern Asian monsoon variability using a 295-year record from the Dasuopu ice core in the central Himalayas. Geophysical Research Letters, 31: L16209.
Yao Tandong, Wu Guangjian, Pu Jianchen, et al, 2004. Relationship between Calcium and atmospheric dust recorded in Guliya ice core, Chinese Science Bulletin, 49(7): 706-710.
He Yuanqing, Zhang Zhonglin, Yao Tandong, et al, 2003. Changing Features of Climate and Glaciers in China’s Monsoonal Temperate-Glacier Region since the Little Ice Age. J. Geophys. Res., 108(D17): 4530-4536.
Yao Tandong, Duan Keqin, Xu Baiqin, et al. Temperature and methane records over last 2ka in Dasuopu ice core. Science in China (Series D), 2002, 45(12): 1068-1073.
Yao Tandong, Duan Keqin, Xu Baiqing, Wang Ninglian, 2002. Temperature and methane changes over the past 1000 years recorded in Dasuopu ice core. Annals of Glaciology, 35: 379-383.
Duan Keqin, Yao Tandong, Pu Jianchen, Response of monsoon variability in Himalayas to global warming. Chinese science Bulletin, 2002, 47(21): 1842-1845.
Duan Keqin, Yao Tandong, Sun Weizhen, Li Xinqin, 2002. Indian monsoon variability in Himalayas since AD 1800. Annals of Glaciology, 35: 437-442.
Yao Tandong, Xu Baiqing, Pu Jianchen, 2001. Climatic changes on orbital and sub-orbital time scale recorded by the Guliya ice core in Tibetan plateau. Science in China (D), 43(supp.): 360-368.
He Yuanqing, Yao Tandong, Cheng Guodong et al, 2001. Climatic records in a firn core from an alpine temperate glacier on Mt. Yulong in southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Episodes, 24(1): 1-6.
Meixue Yang, Tandong Yao, Yuanqing He and L. G. Thompson, 2000. ENSO Events Recorded in the Guliya Ice Core. Climatic Change, 47 (4): 401-409, DOI: 10.1023/A:1005696702385.
Yao Tandong, Liu Xiaodong, Wang Ninglian, Shi Yafeng, 2000. Amplitude of climatic changes in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Chinese Science Bulletin, 45(13): 1236-1243.
Thompson L G, Yao T, E Mosley-thompson, Davis M E, Henderson K A, Lin P-N, 2000. A high-resolution millennial record of the south Asian monsoon from Himalayan ice cores. Science, 289: 1916-1919.
Yang Meixue, Yao Tandong, He Yuanqing, Thompson L G, 2000. The ENSO Events Recorded in Guliya Ice Core. Climatic Change, 47(4): 401-409.
Yao Tandong, 1999. Abrupt climatic changes on the Tibetan Plateau during the Last Ice Age--- Comparative study of the Guliya ice core with the Greenland GRIP ice core. Science in China (Series D), 42(4): 358-368.
Yao T D, Thompson LG, 1998. New achievements in glaciology in Tibet, China. Chinese Science Bulletin 43(14):1231-1232.
Yao, T D, Shi YF; Thompson LG, 1997. High-resolution record of paleo-climate since the Little Ice Age from the Tibetan ice cores. Quaternary International, 37: 19-23.
Thompson L G, Yao T, Davis M E, et al,1997. Tropical climate instability: the last glacial cycle from a Qinghai-Tibetan ice core. Science, 276: 1821-1825.
Yao Tandong, Wang Ninglian, 1997. Ice core study--The past, the present and the future. Chinese Science Bulletin, 42(13): 1057-1065.
Yao Tandong, Thompson L G, Shi Yafeng et al., 1997. Climatic changes since the Last Interglacial recorded in the Guliya ice core. Science in China (series D), 40(6): 662-668.
Yao Tandong, Thompson L G, Qin Dahe et al, 1997. Variations in temperature and preipitation in the past 2000 years on the Xizang (Tibet) Plateau--Guliya ice core record. Sciences in China, 39(4): 425-433.
Yao Tandong, Jiao Keqin, Tian Lide et al, 1996. Climatic variations since the Little Ice Age recorded in the Guliya Ice Core. Science in China, 39(6): 588-596.
Yao Tandong, Jiao Keqin, Tian Lide, et al, 1995. Climate and environment records in Guliya Ice Cap. Science in China (D), 38(2): 228-237.
Yao Tandong, Thompson L G, Jiao Keqin, et al, 1995. Recent warming as recorded in the Qinghai-Tibetan cryosphere. Annals of Glaciology, 21: 196-200.
Thompson LG., Mosley-Thompson E, Yao T, et al, 1993. Recent warming: ice core evidence from tropical ice cores with emphas on central Asia. Global and Planetary Change, 7: 145-156.
Yao Tandong, Thompson L G, 1992. Trends and features of climatic changes in the past 5000 years redorded by the Dunde ice core. Annals of Glaciology, 16: 21-24.
Yao Tandong, Xie Zichu, Wu Xiaoling, Thompson LG, 1991. Climatic Change since the Little Ice Age recorded by Dunde Ice Cap. Science in China (B), 34(6): 760-767.
Yao Tandong, et al, 1990. Climatic Record from an Ice Margin Area in East Antarctica. Annals of Glaciology, 14: 323-327.
Thompson L G, E Mosley-Thompson, Davis M E, Dai J, Yao T, et al, 1989. Holocene--Pleistocene climate ice core record from Qinghai-Tibetan. Science, 246: 474-477.

Ice core microbiology

Yongqin Liu, Tandong Yao, Nianzhi Jiao, Shichang Kang, Baiqin Xu, Yonghui Zeng, Sijun Huang and Xiaobo Liu, 2009. Bacterial diversity in the snow over Tibetan Plateau Glaciers. Extremophiles,13 (3): 411-423, DOI: 10.1007/s00792-009-0227-5.
Yongqin Liu, Tandong Yao, Nianzhi Jiao, Shichang Kang, Sijun Huang, Qiang Li, Kejuan Wang and Xiaobo Liu, 2009. Culturable bacteria in glacial meltwater at 6,350 m on the East Rongbuk Glacier, Mount Everest. Extremophiles,13(1): 89-99, DOI: 10.1007/s00792-008-0200-8.
Yao, T., Y. Liu, S. Kang, N. Jiao, Y. Zeng, X. Liu, and Y. Zhang, 2008. Bacteria variabilities in a Tibetan ice core and their relations with climate change, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 22, GB4017, doi:10.1029/2007GB003140.
Yongqin Liu, Tandong Yao, Nianzhi Jiao, Shichang Kang, Yonghui Zeng, Sijun Huang, 2006. Microbial community structure in moraine lakes and glacial meltwaters, Mount Everest. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 265 (1): 98–105.
Yao, T., S. Xiang, X. Zhang, N. Wang, and Y. Wang, 2006. Microorganisms in the Malan ice core and their relation to climatic and environmental changes, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 20, GB1004, doi:10.1029/2004GB002424.
Xiang S R, Yao T D, An L Z, Xu B Q, Li Z, Wu G J, et al, 2004. Bacterial Diversity in Malan Ice Core from the Tibetan Plateau. Folia Microbiol., 49(3): 269-276.
Zhang Xiaojun, Yao Tandong, Ma Xiaojun, et al, 2002. Microorganisms in a High Altitude Glacier Ice in Tibet, China. Folia Microbiologia, 47(3): 241-245.
Xiaojun Zhang, Tandong Yao, Xiaojun Ma and Ninglian Wang, 2001. Analysis of the characteristics of microorganisms packed in the ice core of Malan Glacier, Tibet, China. Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences, 44(Supplement 1): 369-374, DOI: 10.1007/BF02912008
Xie Shucheng, Yao Tandong, Kang Shichang, Xu Baiqing, Duan Keqin, Lonnie G. Thompson, 2000. Geochemical analyses of a Himalayan snowpit profile: implications for atmospheric pollution and climate. Organic Geochemistry, 31: 15-23.
Yao Tandong, Jean Robert Petit, Claude Loris, 1990. The microparticle implication measuremant and its climatic implications in an ice core from coast area. Antarctica. Science in China, 33(9): 1102-1110.

Environment on the Tibetan plateau

Glacial mass balance: monitoring and modeling

Water stable isotopes on the Tibetan Plateau

Yang, X., T. Yao, W. Yang, W. Yu, D. Qu, 2011. Co-existence of Temperature and Amount Effects on Precipitation d18O in the Asian monsoon region. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L21809, doi: 10.1029/2011GL049353.
Gao, J., V. Masson-Delmotte, T. Yao, L. Tian, C. Risi, G. Hoffmann, 2011. Precipitation water stable isotopes in the South Tibetan Plateau: Observation and modeling. J. Climate, 24(13): 3161-3178.
Tian, L., T. Yao, K. MacClune, J. W. C. White, A. Schilla, B. Vaughn, R. Vachon, and K. Ichiyanagi, 2007. Stable isotopic variations in west China: A consideration of moisture sources, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D10112, doi:10.1029/2006JD007718.
Meixue Yang, Tandong Yao, Xiaohua Gou, Huijun Wang, Lisheng Hao, 2007. Comparison analysis of the summer monsoon precipitation between northern and southern slopes of Tanggula Mountains, Qinghai–Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau: a case study in summer 1998. Hydrological Processes, 21(14): 1841–1847.
Wusheng Yu, Tandong Yao, Lide Tian, Yaoming Ma, et al., 2007. Stable Isotope Variations in Precipitation and Moisture Trajectories on the Western Tibetan Plateau, China. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 39 (4), doi: 10.1657/1523-0430(07-511)[YU]2.0.CO;2.
Tian, L., T. Yao, Z. Li, et al, 2006. Recent rapid warming trend revealed from the isotopic record in Muztagata ice core, eastern Pamirs, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D13103, doi:10.1029/2005JD006249.
Meixue Yang, Tandong Yao, Huijun Wang, et al., 2005. Estimating the criterion for determining water vapour sources of summer precipitation on the northern Tibetan Plateau. Hydrological Processes, 20(3): 505–513.
Tian L, T Yao, Schuster P F, et al., 2003. Oxygen-18 concentrations in recent precipitation and ice cores on the Tibetan Plateau. J. Geophys. Res., 108(D9): ACH 16-1-16-1
Yao Tandong, Valerie Masson, Jean Jouzel, et al., 1999. Relationships between δ18O in Precipitation and Surface Air Temperature in the Urumqi River Basin, East Tianshan Mountains, China. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26(23): 3473-3476.
Yao T D, Thompson L G, Ellen Thompson, et al, 1996. Climatological significance of d18O in north Tibetan ice cores. J. Geophys. Res., 101(D23): 29531-29537.
Yao Tandong, Qin Dahe, 1995. Distribution of stable isotopes in Antarctic surface snow. Chinese science Bulletin, 41(11): 921-925.

Books

Yao Tandong, Liu Shiying and Pu Jiancheng, Changing glaciers in High Asia, Glaciers and Earth's Changing Environment, Blackwell Publisher, 2004, 65-78
Yao Tandong, Yang Meixue. Climatic changes over the last 400 years recorded in ice collected from the Guliya ice cap, Tibetan Plateau. In: L. DeWayne Cecil, J .R. Green and L. G. Thompson (eds), Earth Plaeoenvironments: Records Preserved in Mid- and Low-latitude Glaciers, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, 9: 163-180.
Yao Tandong. The glacial and hydrological regime under climatic influence in the Urumqi River, northwest China. IAHS Publ. 1987, 168: 367-377.
Wang Ninglian, Yao Tandong, Thompson L G. A preliminary study on correlationship between accumulation rates in ice core from the Northern Qinghai-Tibatan Plateau and atmospheric action centeeers, Formation and evolution, environmental changes and sustainable development on the Tibetan Platean. ---Proceedings of International Synposium on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (Xining, 1998), Academy Press, 2000, 166-174.
Duan Keqin, Yao Tandong. Modern environment and climate recorded in the Dasuopu ice core, Formation and evolution, environmental changes and sustainable development on the Tibetan Platean. ---Proceedings of International Synposium on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (Xining.1998), Academy Press, 2000, 54-61.
Xu Baiqing, Yao Tandong. A study on the air-bubble formation process at 7000m attitude of Dasopu glacier, Formation and evolution, environmental changes and sustainable development on the Tibetan Platean. ---Proceedings of International Synposium on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (Xining.1998), Academy Press, 2000, 175-181.
Huo Wenmian, Yao Tandong, Li Yuefang. Ice core record atmospheric pollution in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Formation and evolution, environmental changes and sustainable development on the Tibetan Platean. ---Proceedings of International Synposium on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (Xining.1998) Academy Press, 2000, 70-73.
Pu Jianchen, Yao Tandong, Shi Yafeng, Su Zhen, Liu Chaohai, Ding Liangfu. Characterstics of Distributing and Development of Existing Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau. Formation and evolution, environmental changes and sustainable development on the Tibetan Platean. ---Proceedings of International Synposium on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (Xining.1998), Academy Press, 2000, 134-138
Shi Yafeng, Yao Tandong, Yang Bao. Decadal climatic variation recorded in Guliya ice core and comparison with the historical documentary data from east China during the last 2000 years, Formation and evolution, environmental changes and sustainable development on the Tibetan Platean. ---Proceedings of International Synposium on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (Xining.1998), Academy Press, 2000, 139-148.
Tian Lide, Tandong Yao, Numaguti A, Tsujimura M. Stable Isotope Variation in Hydrological Cycle in the Middle of the Tibetan Plateau. The Second Tibetan Plateau Experiment of Atmospheric Science (Ed. by Tao Shiyan et al.). China Meteorological Press: Beijing, 2002, 92-95.
Yang Meixue, Yao Tandong. The characteristics of the climate recorded in Guliya ice core. Formation and evolution, environmental changes and sustainable development on the Tibetan Plateau—Proceedings of International Symposium on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (Xi’ning, 1998, China). Academy Press, 2000, 182-186.
Kang Shichang, Qin Dahe, Yao Tandong, Cameron P.Wake, Paul A Mayewski. Seasonal variations of moderm atospheric environment recorded in the Dasuop firn core, central Himalayas, Formation and evolution, environmental changes and sustainable development on the Tibetan Platean. ---Proceedings of International Synposium on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (Xining.1998), Academy Press, 2000, 84-95.