GC21F
The Third Pole Environment (TPE) under Global Changes I

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
3003 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Tandong Yao, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, Volker Mosbrugger, Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Fan Zhang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Chairs:  Tandong Yao, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Fan Zhang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
08:00
High-amplitude, centennial-scale climate oscillations during the last glacial in the western Third Pole as recorded in the Guliya ice cap (74775)
Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
08:20
Change in Vegetation Growth and Its Feedback to Climate in the Tibet Plateau (Invited) (61281)
Shilong Piao, Peking University, Beijing, China; ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
08:40
Why did the Nepal Gorkha Earthquake Have so few Effects on Glacial Lakes? (Invited) (85134)
Jeffrey S Kargel1, Brian D Collins2, Eric Jameson Fielding3, Koji Fujita4, Umesh K Haritashya5, Kenneth W Hudnut6, Gregory J Leonard1, Daniel H Shugar7, Akiko Sakai8, Randall Jibson9 and NASA-led earthquake response and "volunteer" team, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Lab Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (5)University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, United States, (6)USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)University of Washington Tacoma Campus, Tacoma, WA, United States, (8)Researcher, Nagoya, Japan, (9)U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, CO, United States
09:00
Reconstructed 2.5-Degree Monthly Precipitation Data for the Tibetan Plateau Region Since 1901 (Invited) (70994)
Samuel Shanpu Shen, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States
09:20
A 3000 year lake sediment record of local and synoptic Indian summer monsoon variability from the southeastern Tibetan Plateau (Invited) (76487)
Broxton W Bird1, Pratigya J Polissar2, Yanbin Lei3, Tandong Yao4, Bruce Finney5, Daniel Bain6, David P Pompeani6, Byron A Steinman7 and Lonnie G Thompson8, (1)Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Earth Sciences, Indianapolis, IN, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observato, Nyack, NY, United States, (3)Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, Beijing, China, (4)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (5)Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, United States, (6)University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (7)University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, United States, (8)Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
09:40
Location and variation of the summertime upper‑troposphere temperature maximum and South Asian High over South Asia (86032)
Yimin Liu1, Bian He1 and Guo-Xiong Wu2, (1)IAP Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China