Chairs: Gregory B Greenwood, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland and Natalie M Kehrwald, University of Venice, Venice, Italy
Primary Conveners: Natalie M Kehrwald, University of Venice, Venice, Italy
Co-conveners: Gregory B Greenwood, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Imtiaz Rangwala, Western Water Assessment/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States and Dragos George Zaharescu, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Carlo Barbante, University of Venice, Venice, Italy
8:00 AM
Climatic Teleconnections Recorded By Tropical Mountain Glaciers
Lonnie G Thompson1,2, Donaldi Permana1,2, Ellen Mosley-Thompson1,3 and Mary Elizabeth Davis1, (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
Dust Records in Ice Cores from the Tibetan Plateau
Ninglian Wang, CAREERI, Chinese Acad. of Sci., Lanzhou, China, Tandong Yao, Inst of Tibetan Plateau Res, Beijing, China and Lonnie G Thompson, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
8:45 AM
Scalable Climate Forcing Optical Indices: How Effective Are They in Alpine Lakes?
Craig E Williamson1, Erin Overholt1, Janet Fischer2, Mark Olson2, Jennifer Brentrup3, Jasmine E Saros4 and John M. Melack5, (1)Miami University Oxford, Biology, Oxford, OH, United States, (2)Franklin and Marshall College, Biology, Lancaster, PA, United States, (3)Miami University, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (5)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
9:15 AM
The Impact of Changes in Water Vapor, Clouds, and Snow Cover on Elevation Dependent Warming
James R Miller1, Catherine M Naud2, Yonghua Chen2, Debjani Ghatak3, Imtiaz Rangwala4, Eric Sinsky1 and Ming Xu1, (1)Rutgers Univ, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)Columbia University, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)Western Water Assessment/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
9:30 AM
An Exploration, for the Upper Indus Basin, of Elevation Dependency in the Relationships Between Locally Observed Near Surface Air Temperature (SAT) and Remotely-Sensed Land Surface Temperature (LST)
Nathan Daniel Forsythe1, Hayley J Fowler2, Stephen Blenkinsop2, Chris G Kilsby2, David R Archer3, Andrew J Hardy4 and Tomas du Chemin Holderness5, (1)Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1, United Kingdom, (2)Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, (3)JBA Consulting Engineers and Scientists, Skipton, United Kingdom, (4)Aberystwyth University, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, (5)University of Wollongong, SMART Infrastructure Facility, Wollongong, Australia
