GC41I:
The Third Pole Environment (TPE) Under Global Changes I

Session ID#: 1872

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3003 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, Tandong Yao, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Volker Mosbrugger, Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany
Primary Convener:  Tandong Yao, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Co-conveners:  Bernd Wuennemann, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States and Volker Mosbrugger, Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany
OSPA Liaison:  Fan Zhang, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • C - Cryosphere
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1827 Glaciology [HYDROLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Climate, ENSO and ‘Black Swans’ over the Last Millennium (8742)
Lonnie G Thompson, The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States; The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States; The Ohio State University, Department of Geography, Columbus, United States, Mary Elizabeth Davis, The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, Donald V Kenny, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States and Ping-Nan Lin, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
A Review of Climatic Controls on δ18o in Precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau: Observations and Simulations (6317)
Tandong Yao, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Valerie Masson-Delmotte, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France, Jing Gao, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Camille M Risi, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France
A Longer–Term Perspective of the Karakoram–Pamir Anomaly: Length, Area and Mass Changes since the 1970s (Invited) (5794)
Tobias Bolch1,2, Nicolai Holzer1, Sharad Joshi3, Nico Moelg4, Kriti Mukherjee1, Sudan B. Maharjan5, Frank Paul4, Tino Pieczonka1, Joseph M Shea5, Finu Shrestha5 and Arun B. Shrestha5, (1)University of Technology - TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany, (2)University of St Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable development, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (3)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (4)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (5)International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal
Two Centuries of Trace Element Deposition at the Top of the Himalaya: Natural Background vs. Anthropogenic Pollution. (Invited) (10625)
Anna Wegner1,2, Paolo Gabrielli3,4, Joel D Barker4, Roxana Sierra Hernandez5, Emilie Beaudon6 and Lonnie G Thompson5,7, (1)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (2)The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, (4)The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, (5)The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (6)Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (7)The Ohio State University, School of Earth Science, Columbus, OH, United States