C41A:
Advances in High-Altitude Glaciohydrology II Posters

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
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

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Assessment of Regional Climatic and Hydrological Changes in the Eastern Himalayan Region
Anubha Agrawal, The Energy and Resources Institute TERI, New Delhi, India and Shresth Tayal, The Energy & Resources Institu, New Delhi, India
 
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
 
Ensemble Predictions of Future Snowfall Scenarios in the Karakorum and Hindu-Kush Mountains Using Downscaled GCM Data
Thomas M. Mosier, David F Hill and Kendra V. Sharp, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 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
 
Glaciological and hydrological sensitivities to climate change in the Hindu-Kush Himalayas
Joseph M Shea, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal and Wouter Immerzeel, Utrecht University, Department of Physcial Geography, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
 
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
 
The suitability of different surface melt models for long-term simulations of glacier response to climate change
Jeannette Gabbi, Marco Carenzo, Francesca Pellicciotti, Andreas Bauder and Martin Funk, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Energy Balance Modeling of Interannual Snow and Ice Storage in High Altitude Region by Dynamic Equilibrium Concept
Ryan Jeffrey Johnson and Noriaki Ohara, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
 
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
 
Energy-balance and melt contributions of supraglacial lakes, Langtang Khola, Nepal
Evan S Miles1, Ian C Willis1, Francesca Pellicciotti2, Jakob F Steiner2, Pascal Buri2 and Neil S Arnold1, (1)Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Quantifying the uncertainty in surface energy fluxes of glacierised environments: How does the lack of information affect estimations of ablation amounts?
Alvaro Ayala, Francesca Pellicciotti and Paolo Burlando, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
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
 
Hydro-glaciological modeling in the Upper Maipo River basin, extratropical Andes Cordillera, with explicit representation of debris-covered glaciers.
James P McPhee1, Yuri Castillo1, Marisa Escobar2 and Francesca Pellicciotti3, (1)University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, (2)Stockholm Environment Institute, Davis, CA, United States, (3)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Variability in Isotopic Values of Water in a Glacierized Catchment and Implications for Hydrologic Mixing Models
Alana M Wilson1, Mark W Williams1, Rijan B Kayastha2 and Adina Racoviteanu3, (1)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal, (3)Research Consultant, University of Colorado et Boulder/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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
 
Modeling Runoff from Partially Glacierized Catchments in the Tropical Andes with Different Glacier Coverage and Land Cover Conditions
Tsuyoshi Kinouchi1, Javier Mendoza2, José Luna2 and Yoshihiro Asaoka3, (1)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, (3)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
 
Combination of remote sensing data products to derive spatial climatologies of “degree days” and downscale meteorological reanalyses: application to the Upper Indus Basin
Nick Rutter1, Benjamin W Brock1, Nathan Daniel Forsythe2, Hayley J Fowler3 and Stephen Blenkinsop3, (1)Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1, United Kingdom, (2)Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1, United Kingdom, (3)Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
 
Reaction path modelling used to explore the relationship between secondary mineral precipitation and low Si content in the meltwaters of a polythermal surge-type glacier
Jeff W Crompton1, Gwenn E Flowers1, Dirk M Kirste1 and Birgit Hagedorn2, (1)Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, (2)University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States
 
Three decades of debris-covered area change for 94 glaciers in Northern Pakistan
Sam Herreid1,2, Alvaro Ayala2 and Francesca Pellicciotti2, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
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