Chairs: Francesca Pellicciotti, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Wouter Immerzeel, Utrecht University, Department of Physcial Geography, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
Primary Conveners: Wouter Immerzeel, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Co-conveners: Francesca Pellicciotti, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Joseph M Shea, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal
OSPA Liaisons: Francesca Pellicciotti, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Estimating Snow and Glacier Melt in a Himalayan Watershed Using an Energy Balance Snow and Glacier Melt Model
Avirup Sen Gupta1, David G Tarboton1, Adina Racoviteanu2, Molly Elizabeth Brown3 and Shahid Habib3, (1)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Integrated simulation of snow and glacier melt runoff in a distributed biosphere hydrological modeling framework at Upper Indus Basin, Karakoram region
Maheswor Shrestha1, Toshio Koike2, Yongkang Xue3, Lei Wang4 and Yukiko Hirabayashi2, (1)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Impact of Air Temperature Distributed Calculation in Glacier Mass Balance Modeling
Giancarlo Dalla Fontana1, Luca Carturan1 and Federico Cazorzi2, (1)TESAF, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Legnaro (PD), Italy, (2)University of Udine, Department of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Udine, Italy
Warmed winters and weakened precipitation on Mt. Everest (central southern Himalaya) impacts glaciers, lakes, permafrost, and river discharges
Franco Salerno1,2, Nicolas Guyennon3, Sudeep Thakuri2, Michele Freppaz4, Raffaella Balestrini2, Elisa Vuillermoz1 and Gianni Tartari2, (1)EvK2CNR, Bergamo, Italy, (2)CNR, water research institute, Brugherio, Italy, (3)CNR National Research Council, water research institute, Rome, Italy, (4)University of Torino, Torino, Italy
Controls on diurnal streamflow cycles in a high altitude catchment in the Swiss Alps
Raphael Mutzner1, Steven V Weijs1, Paolo Tarolli2, Marc Calaf1,3, Holly J Oldroyd1 and Marc B Parlange1,4, (1)EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, (2)University of Padua, Padua, Italy, (3)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (4)University of British Columbia, Civil Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada
A grid-based Model for Backwasting at supraglacial Ice Cliffs on a debris-covered Glacier
Pascal Buri1, Jakob F Steiner1, Francesca Pellicciotti1, Evan S Miles2 and Wouter Immerzeel3, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)Utrecht University, Department of Physcial Geography, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
Uncertainties in Modelling Glacier Melt and Mass Balances: the Role of Air Temperature Extrapolation and Type of Melt Models
Francesca Pellicciotti1, Silvan Ragettli2, Marco Carenzo2, Alvaro Ayala2, James P McPhee3 and Markus Stoffel4, (1)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, (4)University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Developing Temperature Forcing for Snow and Ice Melt Runoff Models in High Mountain Regions
Andrew P Barrett1, Richard L Armstrong2, Mary J. Brodzik3, Siri-Jodha S Khalsa3, Bruce H Raup3 and Karl Rittger1, (1)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States