GC42C:
The Third Pole Environment (TPE) Under Global Changes II

Session ID#: 5192

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3003 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Bernd Wuennemann, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Tandong Yao, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States
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:  Bernd Wuennemann, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 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:

GC42C-01
Lake sediment records of Indian summer monsoon variability during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice: Support for a late Holocene pluvial event on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau (Invited) (4485)
Broxton W Bird, Indiana University Indianapolis, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indianapolis, United States, Pratigya J Polissar, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Yanbin Lei, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 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, Bruce Finney, Idaho State University, Department of Geosciences, Pocatello, United States, Daniel Bain, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Department of Geology and Environmental Science, Pittsburgh, United States, David P Pompeani, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Byron A Steinman, University of Minnesota Duluth, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Large Lakes Observatory, Duluth, United States
GC42C-02
A Circulation Index for the Himalayan Mountain Arc: Reconciling Conflicting Signals of Climate Change Along the Third Pole” (25941)
Hayley J Fowler, Newcastle University, School of Engineering, Newcastle, United Kingdom, Nathan Daniel Forsythe, Newcastle University, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom and Stephen Blenkinsop, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
GC42C-03
Spatial and Temporal Variations of the Firn Line Altitudes in the Asian High Mountains over the Past Decade (28312)
Ninglian Wang, Zhongming Guo and Hongbo Wu, CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou, China
GC42C-04
The Sand Seas of northern China: Important sinks and sources of global sediment fluxes and their changing roles during different climate conditions of Late Quaternary (Invited) (4299)
Xiaoping Yang, CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Beijng, China
GC42C-05
Erosion and Sediment Transport Across Pronounced Topographic and Climatic Gradients in the Himalayan Orogen (Invited) (20798)
Manfred R Strecker, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany and Bodo Bookhagen, University of Potsdam, Institute of Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
GC42C-06
Late Quaternary Lake-Catchment Processes in Hala Lake, Northern Tibetan Plateau, and Their Effects on Lake Evolution (7015)
Dada Yan1, Bernd Wuennemann1, Georg Stauch2, Yongzhan Zhang1, Chongyi E3, Kelong Chen3, Guangchao Cao3 and Jiming Wang3, (1)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, (2)RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, (3)Qinghai Normal University, Xining, China
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