GC43C:
The Third Pole Environment (TPE) Under Global Changes III Posters

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Frank Lehmkuhl, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, Bernd Wuennemann, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China and Tandong Yao, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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:  Frank Lehmkuhl, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Seasonal Variations of Chemical Compositions of Lake and Inflowing River Water from Nam Co Catchment — a Three-Year Monitoring Study
Junbo Wang1,2, Jianting Ju1, Gerhard Daut2, Yong Wang1, Qingfeng Ma1, Lei Huang1, Roland Maeusbacher2 and Liping Zhu1, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany
 
Observation and Simulation of Runoff and Suspended Sediment Flux of the Mabengnong Catchment in Southeast Tibet
Fan Zhang, Chen Zeng, Xiaonan SHI and Xiangtan Zhang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Projected East-West Contrast of Water Budget in Future Climate over the Tibetan Platea
Akio Kitoh and Osamu Arakawa, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
 
A Brightness-Temperature-Variance-Based Passive Microwave Algorithm for Monitoring Soil Freeze/Thaw State on the Tibetan Plateau
Menglei Han1,2, Kun Yang1, Jun Qin1, Rui Jin3, Yaoming Ma1, Jun Wen3, Yingying Chen1, Long Zhao1,2, Zhu La1,2 and Wenjun Tang1, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou, China
 
Using Field Observations and Satellite Data for the Energy and Water Cycle Study over Heterogeneous Landscape of the Third Pole Region
Yaoming Ma, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Loess and Loess-like Sediments on the Tibetan Plateau: New Results and Findings
Frank Lehmkuhl, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
 
Terrestrial Water Storage Changes in the Tibetan Plateau in the Past Decade and the Possible Cause
Fanchong Meng and Fengge Su, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Modeling of Lake Water Storage Changes in the Tibetan Plateau Using a Land Surface Model Coupled with a Glacier-Melt Scheme
Kai Tong, Fengge Su, Zheng Ren and Yinsheng Zhang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Spatio-Temporal Variations of Evapotranspiration in the Lake Selin Co Basin (Tibetan Plateau) from 2003 to 2012
Jing Zhou, Lei Wang, Yinsheng Zhang, Yanhong Guo, Xiuping Li and Wenbin Liu, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Seasonal Evapotranspiration Changes (1983–2006) of Four Large Basins on the Tibetan Plateau
Xiuping Li1, Lei Wang2, Deliang Chen3, Kun Yang2 and Aihui Wang4, (1)Inst of Tibetan Plateau Rsrch, Beijing, China, (2)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)University of Gothenburg, Department of Earth Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden, (4)Nansen-Zhu International Research Center, Beijing, China
 
Mass Balance of a Maritime Glacier on the Southeast Tibetan Plateau and Its Climatic Sensitivity
Wei Yang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Response of Lake Area on the Tibetan Plateau to Climate Change
Kun Yang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Yanbin Lei, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, Beijing, China, Bin Wang, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, Yongwei Sheng, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Broxton W Bird, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Department of Earth Sciences,, IN, IN, United States
 
Spatial Variability of Soil Water and Soil Organic Carbon Contents Under Different Degradation Degrees of Alpine Meadow Soil over the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Chen Zeng and Fan Zhang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Impact of Recent Glacier Advance to Runoff of a Large Glacier-Fed River in China Karakoram
Liu Jingshi, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Strong Regulation of Precipitation on Spring Phenology in the Tibetan Plateau from 1982 to 2008
Wenjiang Zhang, Sichuan University, Dept of Hydrology and Water Resources, Chengdu, China, Yonghong Yi, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, John S Kimball, The University of Montana, Flathead Lake Biological Station, Polson, MT, United States and Youngwook Kim, Univ Montana, NTSG, Missoula, MT, United States
 
Is the Growth of Birch at the UPPER Timberline in the Himalayas Limited By Moisture or By Temperature?
Eryuan Liang1, Binod Dawadi1,2, Neil Pederson3 and Dieter Eckstein4, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Tribhuvan University, Central Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)University of Hamburg, Centre of Wood Sciences, Hamburg, Germany
 
Recent Climate Changes in Northwestern Qaidam Basin Inferred from Geothermal Gradients
Jia Liu1 and Tingjun Zhang1,2, (1)LZU Lanzhou University, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (2)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Interrelations between snow cover and climate and topographic factors in Upper Heihe River basin, northwestern China
Yunbo Bi and Hongjie Xie, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Atmosphere Vapor Isotope Change in Monsoon Region at Lhasa in Southern Tibetan Plateau
Lide Tian, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Towards High Spa-Temporal Resolution Estimates of Surface Radiative Fluxes from Geostationary Satellite Observations for the Tibetan Plateau
Xiaolei Niu, Kun Yang, Wenjun Tang and Jun Qin, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Study on Yarlung Zangbo River Sediment Distribution
Xiaonan SHI, Fan Zhang and Chen Zeng, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Characterization of atmospheric trace elements in the Puruogangri ice core: a preliminary account of Tibetan Plateau environmental and contamination histories
Emilie Beaudon1, Paolo Gabrielli2, Roxana Sierra Hernandez1, Anna Wegner3 and Lonnie G Thompson4, (1)Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (4)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
 
Lakes’ state and abundance across the Tibetan Plateau
Guoqing Zhang1, Tandong Yao1 and Hongjie Xie2, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Spatial distribution and magnification processes of mercury in snow from high-elevation glaciers over the Tibetan Plateau
Jie Huang1, Shichang Kang1, Junming Guo1, Qianggong Zhang1, Guoshuai Zhang1, Kang Wang2 and Lekhendra Tripathee1, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Department of Chemistry, and Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada, Winnipeg, Canada
 
10Be dating of boulders on moraines of the last glacial period in the Nyainqentanglha Mountains, Tibet
Chaolu Yi, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Guocheng Dong, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Marc W Caffee, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
 
Third Pole Environment (TPE) -Latest Progress
Zhi Liu, Tandong Yao, Fan Zhang, Xiaoxin Yang, Weicai Wang and Fan Ping, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Trace Element Determination from the Guliya Ice Core to Characterize Aerosol Deposition over the Western Tibetan Plateau during the Last 500 Years
Roxana Sierra Hernandez1, Paolo Gabrielli2, Emilie Beaudon1, Anna Wegner3 and Lonnie G Thompson4, (1)Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (4)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
 
Influence of the Tianshan Mountains on Arid Central Asia
Jane Wilson Baldwin, Princeton University, Atmsopheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States and Gabriel Andres Vecchi, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Hydrologic Sensitivities of Upper Indus Basin (North Pakistan) Rivers to Multi-Decadal Climatic Variability
Suhaib Bin Farhan1,2, Yinsheng Zhang1, Yingzhao Ma1,2, Gao Haifeng1,2, Rehmatullah Jilani3, Danial Hashmi4 and Ghulam Rasul5, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)UCAS University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)SUPARCO Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission, Karachi, Pakistan, (4)Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), Lahore, Pakistan, (5)Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), Islamabad, Pakistan
 
Soil Temperature and Moisture Change and the Impacts on Vegetation over the Tibetan Plateau
Lan Cuo, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Theodore J Bohn, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
Water level variation of Inland lakes on the southeasten of Tibetan Plateau in 1972-2012
Yanhong Wu and Liping Lei, CEODE Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, BEIJING, China
 
Continuous Lake Recession of Siling Co, Central Tibet, Since the Middle Holocene
Xuhua Shi, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States; Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Eric Kirby, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Kevin P Furlong, Penn State Univ, University Park, PA, United States, Kai Meng, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Ruth A J Robinson, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom, Haijian Lu, CAGS Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China and Erchie Wang, IGG Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Drivers of weathering-related magnetic concentration changes in lacustrine sediments of the Tibetan Plateau – cases in dry and humid climate
Erwin Appel1, Weilin Zhang1,2, Shouyun Hu3, Christian Herb1, Srinivasa Goddu1, Andreas Koutsodendris4, Jörg Pross4 and Xiaomin Fang5, (1)University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, (2)Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)NIGLAS Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, (4)University of Heidelberg, Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany, (5)CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijng, China
 
Reconstruction of Late Quaternary Environmental Changes in Large Endorheic Basins: Challenges and Problems
Kai Hartmann1, Bernhard Diekmann2, Frank Lehmkuhl3, Klaus R Reicherter3, Georg Stauch3 and Bernd Wuennemann4, (1)Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (2)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Potsdam, Bremerhaven, Germany, (3)RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, (4)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
 
Late Quaternary Climate and Precipitation δ18o Variations over the Tibetan Plateau from Paleoclimate Modeling
Jingmin Li1, Todd Alan Ehlers1, Martin Werner2, Sebastian Mutz1, Christian Steger3, Heiko Paeth3, Christopher J Poulsen4 and Ran Feng4, (1)University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, (2)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (3)University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, (4)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States