C44A:
Climate and the Changing Cryosphere in High Asia II

Session ID#: 4793

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3005 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Jeffrey S Kargel, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States and Umesh K Haritashya, University of Dayton, Earth and Environmental Geosciences, Dayton, OH, United States
Primary Convener:  Jeffrey S Kargel, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
Co-conveners:  Umesh K Haritashya, University of Dayton, Earth and Environmental Geosciences, Dayton, OH, United States and Michael Peter Bishop, Texas A&M University College Station, Geography, College Station, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jeffrey S Kargel, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0702 Permafrost [CRYOSPHERE]
0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
4337 Remote sensing and disasters [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Adding the Long-Term Perspective: Tien Shan’s Glacier Mass Change during 1961-2012 (6735)
Daniel Farinotti1, Laurent Longuevergne2, Geir Moholdt3, Doris Duethmann4, Tobias Bolch5, Sergiy Vorogushyn4, Andreas Guntner6 and Abror Gafurov7, (1)ETH Zurich, Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), Zurich, Switzerland, (2)University of Rennes 1, Géosciences Rennes UMR 6118, Rennes, France, (3)Norwegian Polar Institute, Glaciology and Geology, Tromsø, Norway, (4)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (5)University of St Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable development, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (6)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Hydrology, Potsdam, Germany, (7)German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Glacier Retreat Recovered from Landsat Images by Object-Oriented Classification in Central Tianshan, 1977-2013 (16083)
Xianwei Wang, Mei Liu and Jiarong Wang, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Glacier dynamics of the Pamir-Karakoram-Himalaya region over the last 40 years (28845)
Amaury Dehecq, University of Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE, Grenoble, France, Noel Gourmelen, University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom and Emmanuel Trouvé, LISTIC / Université de Savoie, Annecy-Le-Vieux, France
The deformation of ice-debris landforms in the Khumbu Region from InSAR (18841)
David A Schmidt1, Adam D Barker2 and Bernard Hallet2, (1)University of Washington Seattle, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States, (2)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Regional Glacier Sensitivity to Climate Change in the Monsoonal Himalaya: Implications for Water Resources (24287)
Summer Rupper1, Josh Maurer2, Joerg M Schaefer3, Karma Tsering4, Tshewang Rinzin4, Chhimi Dorji4, Eric Scott Johnson5 and Edward R Cook6, (1)University of Utah, School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)Brigham Young University, Department of Geological Sciences, Provo, UT, United States, (3)Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Ministry of Economic Affairs, Department of Hydro-Meteorological Services, Thimphu, Bhutan, (5)University of Utah, Department of Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (6)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Tree-Ring Laboratory, Palisades, NY, United States
High-Resolution Monitoring of Himalayan Glacier Dynamics Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Invited) (3598)
Walter W. Immerzeel1,2, Philip D. A. Kraaijenbrink2, Joseph Shea3, Arun B. Shrestha3, Francesca Pellicciotti4, Marc FP Bierkens2 and Steven M. de Jong5, (1)Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal, (4)Northumbria University, Department of Geography, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, (5)Utrecht University, Department of Physcial Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands
Seasonal and Elevational Variations of Black Carbon and Dust in Snow and Ice in the Solu-Khumbu, Nepal and Estimated Radiative Forcings (Invited) (3527)
Susan Kaspari, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, United States, Thomas H Painter, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Martin Gysel, Paul Scherrer Institute, Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Villigen, Switzerland, McKenzie Skiles, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Margit Schwikowski, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
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