GC23B:
Climate Change in Mountains: Elevational Dependency and Diverse Impacts II Posters

Session ID#: 5186

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Not an Option (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Gregory B Greenwood, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland and Natalie Marie Kehrwald, U.S. Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, United States
Primary Convener:  Natalie Marie Kehrwald, U.S. Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, United States
Co-conveners:  Gregory B Greenwood, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland and Imtiaz Rangwala, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Carlo Barbante, Ca' Foscari University, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Venice, Italy
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

1621 Cryospheric change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1625 Geomorphology and weathering [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
GC23B-0617
Fens As Ecohydrologic Gauges of Climate Change in California (4767)
Judith Z Drexler1, Lorraine E Flint2, Alan L Flint2 and Donna L Knifong2, (1)USGS California Water Science Center, Sacramento, United States, (2)USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States
 
GC23B-0618
The Influence of El Niño and La Niña on Winter Climate Conditions at 138 Ski Resorts in Western North America (28170)
Michael Josef Pidwirny and Alexandra Mei Turney, Univ of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, Canada
 
GC23B-0619
Microbial Succession in Glacial Foreland Soils of the Canadian Subarctic (31300)
Sina Kazemi, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Brian D Lanoil, University of Alberta, Department of Biological Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 
GC23B-0620
Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Altitudinal Lapse Rate of Temperature in Mainland China (12669)
Yue Li, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States, Zhenzhong Zeng, Peking University, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Beijing, China, Lin Zhao, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China and Shilong Piao, Peking University, Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China
 
GC23B-0621
Hydrological Trends in a High Alpine Watershed in Rocky Mountain National Park (24019)
Claire E Moore1, Rosemary Records1, Aaron J Piña2, Isaac D Medina1 and Grace Lloyd Miner1, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
 
GC23B-0622
Simulating expected elevation dependent warming (EDW) mechanisms in a dynamically-downscaled perturbed physics climate model ensemble over the Himalayan region (26352)
Nathan Daniel Forsythe1, Stephen Blenkinsop2, Hayley Folwer2, Richard Arthur Betts3 and Tamara Janes3, (1)Newcastle University, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, (2)Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, (3)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom
 
GC23B-0623
Investigating the Hydrogeologic Controls on Memory and Feedbacks to Climate Change in Mountain Groundwater Systems: An Integrated Modeling Approach (8066)
Katherine H. Markovich, University of California Davis, Davis, United States, Graham E Fogg, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States and Reed M Maxwell, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
GC23B-0624
Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Coupled Socioecological Systems in East Africa: The Case of the Chagga Agroforestry and Maasai Agropastoralism across the Greater Environments of Mount Kilimanjaro Region (14712)
Margaret N Mwangi, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
 
GC23B-0625
Climate Change Effect and Natural Variability of Spring Precipitation, Snowfall, Snowmelt and Peak Runoff Timings over the Alps (23488)
Matteo Zampieri, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Enrico Scoccimarro, CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Bologna, Italy and Silvio Gualdi, INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy
 
GC23B-0626
Sustained Increases in Lower Tropospheric Subsidence over the Central Tropical North Pacific Drives a Decline in High Elevation Precipitation in Hawai‘i. (17582)
Ryan J Longman, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Geography and Environment, Honolulu, United States, Henry F Diaz, University of Hawaii, Maui, HI, United States and Thomas W Giambelluca, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Hawaiʻi Sea Grant, Honolulu, United States
 
GC23B-0627
Summer Precipitation Patterns Alter Soil Moisture and Carbon Dynamics in a High Elevation Meadow (30362)
Chelsea L Arnold1, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe1 and Teamrat A Ghezzehei2, (1)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, (2)University of California Merced, Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States
 
GC23B-0628
Climate Change and Mountain Community Fire Management in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru (30459)
John All, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, United States, Michael Johns Medler, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States, Rebecca J Cole, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Sylvie Arques, Northwest Indian College, Bellingham, WA, United States and Carl G Schmitt, Alaska Climate Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
GC23B-0629
Temperature Trends in the White Mountains of New Hampshire (30216)
Georgia Murray, Organization Not Listed, Appalalachian Mountain Club, Washington, United States, Eric P Kelsey, Plymouth State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science and Chemistry, Plymouth, NH, United States and Adriana Raudzens Bailey, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
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