Chairs: Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, Tandong Yao, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Volker Mosbrugger, Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Primary Conveners: Tandong Yao, Inst of Tibetan Plateau Res, Beijing, China
Co-conveners: Bernd Wuennemann, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States and Volker Mosbrugger, Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
OSPA Liaisons: Fan Zhang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
8:00 AM
Climate, ENSO and ‘Black Swans’ over the Last Millennium
Lonnie G Thompson1,2, Ellen Mosley-Thompson1,3, Mary Elizabeth Davis1, Donald V Kenny1 and Ping-Nan Lin1, (1)The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)The Ohio State University, Department of Geography, Columbus, OH, United States
8:30 AM
A Review of Climatic Controls on δ18o in Precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau: Observations and Simulations
Tandong Yao, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France, Jing Gao, Inst of Tibetan Plateau Rsrch, Beijing, China and Camille M Risi, LMD, Paris, France
9:00 AM
A Longer–Term Perspective of the Karakoram–Pamir Anomaly: Length, Area and Mass Changes since the 1970s
Tobias Bolch1,2, Nicolai Holzer1, Sharad Joshi3, Nico Moelg2, Kriti Mukherjee1, Sudan B. Maharjan3, Frank Paul2, Tino Pieczonka1, Joseph M Shea3, Finu Shrestha3 and Arun B. Shrestha3, (1)University of Technology - TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany, (2)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal
9:20 AM
Two Centuries of Trace Element Deposition at the Top of the Himalaya: Natural Background vs. Anthropogenic Pollution.
Anna Wegner1,2, Paolo Gabrielli2,3, Joel D Barker2, Roxana Sierra Hernandez2, Emilie Beaudon2 and Lonnie G Thompson2,3, (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, School of Earth Science, Columbus, OH, United States
