Associate Professor
Name:
Xiaoxin Yang
Title:
Associate Professor
Tel:
010-84097123
Email:
xxy@itpcas.ac.cn
Address:
Building 3, Courtyard 16, Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Education and Appointments
Education
Ph.D., University of Chinese Academy of Sciences/ Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2010
B. S., Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2004
Appointments
Program Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2019-present
Associate Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2012-2019
Visiting scholar, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, the Ohio State University, US, 2015-2016
Assistant Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2010-2012
Research Assistant, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2004-2010


Research Interest
Research Interests: Water stable isotopes in precipitation/surface water/ice cores, variation of Asian water towers with the westerly-monsoon interactions under global climate changes;variations of water stable isotopes and their indications of atmospheric circulations
Research Fields: variations of water stable isotopes and their indications of atmospheric circulations


Selected Publications
Publications in the recent 5 years (2016-2020) (* corresponding author; # joint first authors; Including books and book chapters)
Part 1: 5 representative publications 
1.Yang, X.X.*, Yao, T.D. Seasonality of moisture supplies to precipitation over the Third Pole: a stable water isotopic perspective. Scientific Reports, 2020, 10:15020.
2.Acharya, S., Yang, X.X.*, Yao, T.D., and Shrestha, D, 2020. Stable isotopes of precipitation in Nepal Himalaya highlight the topographic influence on moisture transport. Quaternary International. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2020.09.052.
3.Yang, X.X.*, Yao, T.D, Deji, Zhao, H.B., and Xu, B.Q. Possible ENSO influences on the northwestern Tibetan Plateau revealed from annually resolved ice core records. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2018, 123: 3857-3870.
4.Yang, X.X.*, Mary E. Davis, Sunil Acharya, Tandong Yao, 2018. Asian monsoon variations revealed from stable isotopes in precipitation. Climate Dynamics, 51, 5-6, doi:10.1007/s00382-017-4011-4
5.Yang, X.X.*, Yao, T, 2016. Different sub-monsoon signals in stable oxygen isotope in daily precipitation to the northeast of the Tibetan Plateau. Tellus B, 68, 27922.
Part 2: all other publications (exclude part 1)
1.Yu, W.S., Yao, T.D., Thompson, L.G., Jouzel, J., Zhao, H.B., Xu, B.Q., Jing, Z.W., Wang, N.L., Wu, G.J., Ma, Y.M., Gao, J., Yang, X.X., Zhang, J. Y., and Qu, D.M. (2021): Temperature signals of ice core and speleothem isotopic records from Asian monsoon region as indicated by precipitation δ18O. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 554, 116665.
2.Yue, S, Yang, K., Lu, H., Chen, Y., Sharma, S., Yang, X.X., Shrestha, M.L.(2019): Distinct temperature changes between north and south sides of central-eastern Himalayas since 1970s. International Journal of Climatology,40(9), 2020.
3.Tandong Yao, Yongkang Xue, Deliang Chen, Fahu Chen, Lonnie Thompson, Peng Cui, Toshio Koike, William K.-M. Lau, Dennis Lettenmaier, Volker Mosbrugger, Renhe Zhang, Baiqing Xu, Jeff Dozier, Thomas Gillespie, Yu Gu, Shichang Kang, Shilong Piao, Shiori Sugimoto, Kenichi Ueno, Lei Wang, Weicai Wang, Fan Zhang, Yongwei Sheng, Weidong Guo, Ailikun, Xiaoxin Yang et al. (2019): Recent third pole's rapid warming accompanies cryospheric melt and water cycle intensification and interactions between monsoon and environment: multi-disciplinary approach with observation, modeling and analysis. In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100 (3): 432-444.
4.Deji, Yao, TD, Yang, X.X., Xu, BQ, Zhao, HB, Li, JL, Li, Z, Wu, GJ, Yao, P, You, C, Zhu, ML, Wang, M, Qu, DM, Li, QL.Warming and wetting climate during last century revealed by an ice core in northwest Tibetan Plateau. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2017,487: 270-277.
5.Yang, X.X.*, Acharya, S., and Yao, T.D. Large-scale atmospheric circulation control on stable water isotopes in precipitation over the northwestern and southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 2016, doi: 10.5194/acp-2016-876.