C41B:
Climate and the Changing Cryosphere in High Asia I Posters

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Michael Peter Bishop, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States and Umesh K Haritashya, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, United States
Primary Conveners:  Jeffrey S Kargel, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Co-conveners:  Umesh K Haritashya, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, United States and Michael Peter Bishop, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Umesh K Haritashya, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Glacial Lake Expansion in the Central Himalayas By Landsat Images, 1990-2010
Yong Nie1, Qiao Liu1 and Shiyin Liu2, (1)IMHE Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China, (2)CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Lanzhou, China
 
Hazards Associated with High Altitude Rain-Fed Lakes (HARL) in the Overdeepened Deglaciated Region of Hindu Kush and Himalaya
Umesh K Haritashya and Tanner Glay Hess, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, United States
 
Heterogeneous Status of Glacial Terminal-Contacted Lakes in Himalayas Due to Different Geomorphology and Glacier Characters
Qiao Liu1, Yong Nie1 and Shiyin Liu2, (1)IMHE Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China, (2)CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Lanzhou, China
 
Hazard Assessment of Glacial Lake Outburst Flood and Potential of ICTs for Coping: A Case of Eastern Himalaya of Nepal
Dilli RAM Bhattarai and Dhiraj Pradhananga, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
 
Glacial lake monitoring in the Karakoram Range using historical Landsat Thematic Mapper archive (1982 – 2014)
Jeffrey Y H Chan1, Richard E J Kelly1 and Steve G Evans2, (1)University of Waterloo, Geography and Environmental Management, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)University of Waterloo, Earth and Environmental Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada
 
An estimate of glacier melting contribution to inland lakes on Tibetan Plateau
Qinghua Ye, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Geir Moholdt, the Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway, Norway, Norway, Tandong Yao, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Shiyin Liu, CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Lanzhou, China and Yinsheng Zhang, ITP,CAS, Beijing, China
 
Climatic Variation and River Flows in Himalayan Basins Upstream of Large Dams
Dominic Eaton, University of Salford, Salford, HD4, United Kingdom and David Nigel Collins, University of Salford, School of Environment & Life Sciences, Salford, HD4, United Kingdom
 
Temporal Variations of Air Temperature, Precipitation and River flow in the Karakoram Mountains and Surrounding Areas
David Nigel Collins, University of Salford, School of Environment & Life Sciences, Salford, HD4, United Kingdom, Dominic Eaton, University of Salford, Salford, HD4, United Kingdom and Joshua Davenport, University of Salford, School of Environment & Life Sciences, Salford, United Kingdom
 
Analysis of Climate Trends in the Altai Mountains Between 1988 and 2012
Hideyuki Kitabata1, Konosuke Sugiura2 and Tsutomu Kadota1, (1)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (2)University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
 
Multi-Decadal Comparison between Clean-Ice and Debris-Covered Glaciers in the Eastern Himalaya
Joshua Michael Maurer, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States and Summer Rupper, Brigham Young University, Department of Geological Sciences, Provo, UT, United States
 
Cosmogenic Be-10 Constraints of the “Little Ice Age” Glacial Advances in the Eastern Tian Shan, China
Yanan Li1, Yingkui Li1, Gengnian Liu2 and Yixin Chen2, (1)University of Tennessee, Department of Geography, Knoxville, TN, United States, (2)Peking University, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Surface Irradiance in the Himalaya
Iliyana Dancheva Dobreva and Michael Peter Bishop, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States
 
Modeling the Mass Balance of Arctic-Asian Glaciers using the WRF data: case study in the Altai Mountains
Yong Zhang1, Hiroyuki Enomoto1,2, Tetsuo Ohata3, Hideyuki Kitabata3, Tsutomu Kadota3 and Yukiko Hirabayashi4, (1)NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, (2)SOKENDAI Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Kanagawa, Japan, (3)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (4)The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
 
Estimating the Bedrock Topography of the Gangotri Glacier in  India
Prateek Gantayat, Anil Vishnupant Kulkarni and Jayaraman Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
 
Impact of glacio-morphological parameters in the glacier change: A case study of parts of Western Himalaya, India.
Rupal Brahmbhatt1, Ishmohan Bahuguna2, Bhanuprakash Rathore2, Anil Vishnupant Kulkarni3 and Rajesh Shah1, (1)M.G. Science Institute, Department of Geology, Ahmedabad, India, (2)Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organization Satellite center - ISRO, Ahmedabad, India, (3)Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
 
Ice Cliff Backwasting over debris-covered Glaciers – Insights into their Formation and Development based on new Measurements and a point-scale Model
Jakob F Steiner1, Francesca Pellicciotti1, Pascal Buri1, Evan S Miles2, Tim D Reid3 and Wouter Immerzeel4, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (4)Utrecht University, Department of Physcial Geography, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
 
Complex erosion patterns produced by the Haizishan paleo-ice cap, SE Tibetan Plateau
Ping Fu1, Arjen P Stroeven1, Jon Harbor2, Jakob Heyman2, Clas Hättestrand1 and Marc W Caffee2, (1)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, (2)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
 
Climatic vs. Seismic Controlled Rockglacier Advances in Northern Tien Shan - Insights from Lichenometry
Swenja Rosenwinkel1, Oliver Korup1, Angela Landgraf1 and Atyrgul Dzhumabaeva2, (1)University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Institute of Seismology, Bishkek, Kyrgyz
 
Thermal State and Characteristics of Permafrost in Qilian Mountains, Northwest China
Bin Cao1, Tingjun Zhang1,2, Xiankai Zhang1, Xudong Wan1, Lei Zheng1, Xiaoqing Peng1, Jia Liu1, Binyan Wu1, Cuicui Mu1, Lin Cao1 and Hong Guo1, (1)LZU Lanzhou University, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (2)University of Colorado, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Effect of Permafrost Degradation on the Development of the Rainfall-controlling Thermokarst Ponds on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Qihao Yu1, Xicai Pan2, Yanhui You1, Lei Guo1 and Yanping Li2, (1)CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou, China, (2)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
 
Response of Changes in Soil Seasonal Freeze/Thaw to Climate Change from 1950 to 2010 in China
Xiaoqing Peng1, Tingjun Zhang1,2, Dongxia Yue3, Rui Jin4 and Kang Wang5, (1)LZU Lanzhou University, College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (2)University of Colorado, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)MOE Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China, (4)CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou, China, (5)LZU Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
 
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