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2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
110
Citations
48187
World Ranking
70
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in China Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Tandong Yao is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a substantial number of publications in these fields.

Their main research subfields include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. The principal topics of their work cover Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate change and permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Climate variability and models, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance.

Tandong Yao has published extensively, with notable papers such as:

  • The imbalance of the Asian water tower (2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Climate change decisive for Asia's snow meltwater supply (2021, Nature Climate Change)
  • High Mountain Asian glacier response to climate revealed by multi-temporal satellite observations since the 1960s (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Atmospheric dynamic constraints on Tibetan Plateau freshwater under Paris climate targets (2021, Nature Climate Change)

Their frequent co-authors include Wei Yang, Deliang Chen, Meilin Zhu, Lei Wang, and Baiqing Xu.

In terms of publication venues, Tandong Yao often publishes in Science Bulletin, The Science of The Total Environment, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Earth-Science Reviews, and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Among their published books is Introduction to Cryospheric Science (2021), released by Springer International Publishing.

Recognition for their work includes being awarded the title of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Different glacier status with atmospheric circulations in Tibetan Plateau and surroundings

    Tandong Yao;Lonnie Thompson;Lonnie Thompson;Wei Yang;Wusheng Yu

  • Importance and vulnerability of the world's water towers

    W W Immerzeel;A F Lutz;M Andrade;M Andrade;A Bahl

  • Tropical Climate Instability: The Last Glacial Cycle from a Qinghai-Tibetan Ice Core

    L. G. Thompson;T. Yao;M. E. Davis;K. A. Henderson

  • The imbalance of the Asian water tower

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  • A High-Resolution Millennial Record of the South Asian Monsoon from Himalayan Ice Cores

    L. G. Thompson;T. Yao;E. Mosley-Thompson;M. E. Davis;M. E. Davis

  • Review of climate and cryospheric change in the Tibetan Plateau

    S. Kang;Q. You;Q. You;W. Flugel;Nick Pepin

  • Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis

    Tandong Yao;Yongkang Xue;Deliang Chen;Fahu Chen

  • A review of climatic controls on δ18O in precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau: Observations and simulations

    Tandong Yao;Valerie Masson-Delmotte;Jing Gao;Wusheng Yu

  • Third Pole Environment (TPE)

    Tandong Yao;Lonnie G. Thompson;Volker Mosbrugger;Fan Zhang

  • The impacts of climate change and human activities on biogeochemical cycles on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Huai Chen;Qiuan Zhu;Changhui Peng;Ning Wu;Ning Wu

  • Black soot and the survival of Tibetan glaciers

    Baiqing Xu;Junji Cao;James Hansen;Tandong Yao

  • Stable isotopic variations in west China: A consideration of moisture sources

    Lide Tian;Lide Tian;Tandong Yao;K. MacClune;J. W. C. White

  • Holocene--late pleistocene climatic ice core records from qinghai-tibetan plateau.

    L. G. Thompson;E. Mosley-Thompson;M. E. Davis;J. F. Bolzan

  • Geographic distance and pH drive bacterial distribution in alkaline lake sediments across Tibetan Plateau

    Jinbo Xiong;Yongqin Liu;Xiangui Lin;Huayong Zhang

  • Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau induced by vegetation growth

    Miaogen Shen;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Su-Jong Jeong;Liming Zhou

  • Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;Hongjie Xie;Kun Yang;Kun Yang

  • Tibetan Plateau summer monsoon northward extent revealed by measurements of water stable isotopes

    L. Tian;V. Masson-Delmotte;M. Stievenard;T. Yao

  • A 2,326‐year tree‐ring record of climate variability on the northeastern Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau

    Qi-Bin Zhang;Guodong Cheng;Tandong Yao;Xingcheng Kang

  • Recent Glacial Retreat and Its Impact on Hydrological Processes on the Tibetan Plateau, China, and Surrounding Regions

    Tandong Yao;Jianchen Pu;Anxin Lu;Youqing Wang

  • An inventory of glacial lakes in the Third Pole region and their changes in response to global warming

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;Hongjie Xie;Weicai Wang

  • Lake volume and groundwater storage variations in Tibetan Plateau's endorheic basin

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;C. K. Shum;Shuang Yi

  • Different glacier status with atmospheric circulations in Tibetan Plateau and surroundings

    T. Yao

Frequent Co-Authors

Baiqing Xu
Baiqing Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lide Tian
Lide Tian Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wei Yang
Wei Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoping Wang
Xiaoping Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lonnie G. Thompson
Lonnie G. Thompson The Ohio State University
Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kun Yang
Kun Yang Tsinghua University
Guoqing Zhang
Guoqing Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nianzhi Jiao
Nianzhi Jiao Xiamen University
Gerd Gleixner
Gerd Gleixner Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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