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Name:
Yanbin Lei
Title:
Associate Professor
Tel:
010-84097046
Email:
leiyb@itpcas.ac.cn
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Address:
Building 3, No. 16, Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Education and Appointments
Education 
Ph.D. in Physical Geography, Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, 2009
M. S. in Environmental Science, Lanzhou University, China, 2006
B.S. in Pulp and Paper Science, Department of Light Chemical Engineering, Qilu University of technology, China, 2003
Appointments 
2014.05-present, Associate Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China
2012.12-2014.04, Assistant Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China
209.07-2012.11, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China


Research Interest
Research Interets: Lake level seasonality; Extreme lake level changes on the TP and its response to climate change; Lake water balance in different climate regimes of the TP.
Research Fields: Lake dynamics and climate change; Lake hydrology


Selected Publications

Part 1: 5 representative publications 

1. Lei Y.*, Yao T., Tian L., Sheng Y., Lazhu, Liao J., Zhao H., Yang W., Yang K., Berthier E., Brun F., Gao Y.,  Zhu M., Wu G. (2021) Response of downstream lakes to Aru glacier collapses on the western Tibetan Plateau. The Cryosphere, accepted. 

2. Lei Y.*, Zhu Y.*, Wang B., Yao T., Yang K., Zhang X., Zhai J., Ma N. (2019) Extreme lake level changes on the Tibetan Plateau associated with the 2015/2016 El Nino. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL081946. 

3. Lei Y.*, Yao T., Yang K., Bird B.W., Tian L., Zhang X., Wang W., Xiang Y., Dai Y., Lazhu, Zhou J., Wang L. (2018) An integrated investigation of lake storage and water level changes in the Paiku Co basin, central Himalayas. Journal of Hydrology, 562, 599–608. 

4. Lei Y.*, Yao T., Yang K., Sheng Y., Kleinherenbrink M., Yi S., Bird B., Zhang X., Zhu L., and Zhang G. (2017) Lake seasonality across the Tibetan Plateau and their varying relationship with regional mass changes and local hydrology. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, doi:10.1002/2016GL072062. 

5. Lei Y.*, Yang K. (2017) The cause of rapid lake expansion in the Tibetan Plateau: climate wetting or warming? WIREs Water, DOI:10.1002/wat2.1236. 

Part 2: all other publications (exclude part 1) 

1. Ke L., Song C., Yong B., Lei Y., Ding X. (2020) Which heterogeneous glacier melting patterns can be robustly observed from space? A multi-scale assessment in southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Remote Sensing of Environment, 242, 111777. 

2.Yang K., Lu H., Yue S., Zhang G., Lei Y., Lazhu, Wang W. (2018) Quantifying recent precipitation change and predicting lake expansion in the Inner Tibetan Plateau. Climatic Change, 147, 149–163. 

3. Wang W., Gao Y., Anacona P., Lei Y., Xiang Y., Zhang G., Li S. and Lu A. (2018) Integrated hazard assessment of Cirenmaco glacial lake in Zhangzangbo valley, Central Himalayas. Geomorphology, 306, 292-305. 

4. Zhang G., Yao T., Piao S., Bolch T., Xie H., Chen D., Gao Y., O'Reilly C.M., Shum C.K., Yang K., Yi S., Lei Y., Wang W., He Y., Shang K., Yang X. and Zhang H. (2017) Extensive and drastically different alpine lake changes on Asia's high plateaus during the past four decades. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(1): 252-260. 

5. Bird B., Lei Y., Perello M., Polisar P., Thompson L., Yao T., Finney B., Bain D., Pompeani D. (2016) Late Holocene Indian summer monsoon variability revealed from a 3,300-year-long lake sediment record from Nir’pa Co, southeastern Tibet. The Holocene, doi: 10.1177/0959683616670220. 

6. Lazhu, Yang K., Wang J., Lei Y., Chen Y., Zhu L., Ding B., and Qin J. (2016) Quantifying evaporation and its decadal change for Lake Nam Co, central Tibetan Plateau, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, doi:10.1002/2015JD024523.