Chairs: Bernd Wuennemann, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China and Tandong Yao, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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: Frank Lehmkuhl, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Aachen, Germany
Seasonal Variations of Chemical Compositions of Lake and Inflowing River Water from Nam Co Catchment — a Three-Year Monitoring Study (4569)
Junbo Wang1, Jianting Ju1, Gerhard Daut2, Yong Wang3, Qingfeng Ma3, Lei Huang3, Roland Maeusbacher2 and Liping Zhu4, (1)Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany, (3)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
A Brightness-Temperature-Variance-Based Passive Microwave Algorithm for Monitoring Soil Freeze/Thaw State on the Tibetan Plateau (7290)
Menglei Han1,2, Kun Yang1, Jun Qin3, Rui Jin4, Yaoming Ma5, Jun Wen4, Yingying Chen1, Long Zhao1,2, Zhu La1,2 and Wenjun Tang1, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)IGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China, (4)CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou, China, (5)Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Land-Atmosphere Interaction and its Climatic Effects Group, State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Beijing, China
Spatio-Temporal Variations of Evapotranspiration in the Lake Selin Co Basin (Tibetan Plateau) from 2003 to 2012 (9984)
Jing Zhou1, Lei Wang1, Yinsheng Zhang1, Yanhong Guo2, Xiuping Li1 and Wenbin Liu1, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Seasonal Evapotranspiration Changes (1983–2006) of Four Large Basins on the Tibetan Plateau (9987)
Xiuping Li1, Lei Wang2, Deliang Chen3, Kun Yang2 and Aihui Wang4, (1)Inst of Tibetan Plateau Rsrch, Beijing, China, (2)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)University of Gothenburg, Department of Earth Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden, (4)National Key Laboratory of Earth System Numerical Modeling and Application, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Response of Lake Area on the Tibetan Plateau to Climate Change (10980)
Kun Yang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Yanbin Lei, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Bin Wang, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, United States, Yongwei Sheng, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Broxton W Bird, Indiana University Indianapolis, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indianapolis, United States
Strong Regulation of Precipitation on Spring Phenology in the Tibetan Plateau from 1982 to 2008 (11217)
Wenjiang Zhang, Sichuan University, Dept of Hydrology and Water Resources, Chengdu, China, Yonghong Yi, University of California Los Angeles, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, John S Kimball, University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, Missoula, United States and Youngwook Kim, Univ Montana, NTSG, Missoula, MT, United States
Is the Growth of Birch at the UPPER Timberline in the Himalayas Limited By Moisture or By Temperature? (11237)
Eryuan Liang1, Binod Dawadi1,2, Neil Pederson3 and Dieter Eckstein4, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Tribhuvan University, Central Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)University of Hamburg, Centre of Wood Sciences, Hamburg, Germany
Characterization of atmospheric trace elements in the Puruogangri ice core: a preliminary account of Tibetan Plateau environmental and contamination histories (12946)
Emilie Beaudon1, Paolo Gabrielli2, Roxana Sierra Hernandez1, Anna Wegner3 and Lonnie G Thompson4, (1)School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States, (2)The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (3)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (4)Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States
Spatial distribution and magnification processes of mercury in snow from high-elevation glaciers over the Tibetan Plateau (15189)
Jie Huang1, Shichang Kang1, Junming Guo1, Qianggong Zhang1, Guoshuai Zhang1, Kang Wang2 and Lekhendra Tripathee1, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Department of Chemistry, and Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada, Winnipeg, Canada
10Be dating of boulders on moraines of the last glacial period in the Nyainqentanglha Mountains, Tibet (15849)
Chaolu Yi, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Guocheng Dong, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Marc W Caffee, Purdue University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Third Pole Environment (TPE) -Latest Progress (15961)
Zhi Liu1, Tandong Yao1, Fan Zhang2, Xiaoxin Yang1, Weicai Wang2 and Fan Ping1, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Trace Element Determination from the Guliya Ice Core to Characterize Aerosol Deposition over the Western Tibetan Plateau during the Last 500 Years (16877)
Roxana Sierra Hernandez, Ohio State University Main Campus, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, Paolo Gabrielli, The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, Emilie Beaudon, School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States, Anna Wegner, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany and Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States
Continuous Lake Recession of Siling Co, Central Tibet, Since the Middle Holocene (24802)
Xuhua Shi, Penn State University, University Park, United States; Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Eric Kirby, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States, Kevin P Furlong, Penn State Univ, University Park, United States, Kai Meng, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Ruth A J Robinson, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom, Haijian Lu, CAGS Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China and Erchie Wang, IGG Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Reconstruction of Late Quaternary Environmental Changes in Large Endorheic Basins: Challenges and Problems (7441)
Kai Hartmann1, Bernhard Diekmann2, Frank Lehmkuhl3, Klaus R Reicherter4, Georg Stauch4, Bernd Wuennemann5 and BMBF-CAME-QuaSi-Team, (1)Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (2)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Potsdam, Bremerhaven, Germany, (3)RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Aachen, Germany, (4)RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, (5)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Late Quaternary Climate and Precipitation δ18o Variations over the Tibetan Plateau from Paleoclimate Modeling (9154)
Jingmin Li1, Todd Alan Ehlers2, Martin Werner3, Sebastian Mutz2, Christian Roland Steger4, Heiko Paeth5, Christopher J Poulsen6 and Ran Feng7, (1)University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, (2)University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany, (3)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (4)Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (5)University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, (6)University of Oregon, Earth Sciences, Eugene, United States, (7)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
