U42A
Mountains without Permanent Snow and Ice: Current Impacts and Implications for the Future of Mountain Environments and Areas Downstream

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
2022-2024 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Raymond S Bradley, Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States
Conveners:  Lonnie G Thompson, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
Chairs:  Raymond S Bradley, Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States and Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
10:20
Glacier loss and emerging hydrologic vulnerabilities in the Peruvian Andes (Invited) (78286)
Bryan G Mark1,2, Jeffrey M McKenzie3, Michel Baraer4, Pablo Lagos5, Laura Lautz6, Mark Carey7, Jeff Bury8, Ryan Crumley9, Oliver Wigmore10 and Lauren Dorothy Somers3, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)OSU-Byrd Polar Rsrch Ctr, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (4)Ecole de Technologie Superieur, Montreal, QC, Canada, (5)Instituto Geofísico del Perú, Lima, Peru, (6)Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States, (7)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (8)University of California Santa Cruz, Environmental Studies, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (9)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (10)The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
10:40
The Tropical Andes without Snow and Ice – Impacts, Uncertainties and Challenges Ahead (Invited) (81705)
Mathias F Vuille, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY, United States
11:00
Warming Mountains, Earlier runoff and Declining Snowpack in Western North America (Invited) (82090)
Daniel R Cayan, U.S. Geological Survey, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
11:20
Glacier melt on the Third Pole (Invited) (59891)
Tandong Yao, CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Beijing, China; ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
11:40
Water Resources by 2100 in Mountains with Declining Glaciers (Invited) (59073)
Martin Beniston, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
12:00
Mountains of Central Asia in the warmer world (Invited) (59747)
Maria Shahgedanova, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Igor Severskiy, Institute of Geography, Almaty, Kazakhstan and Dauren Zhumabayev, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
 
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