C11C:
High Mountain Asia's Cryosphere: Systems Dynamics and Hazards I Posters

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Session ID#: 14132

Session Description:
High Mountain Asia (the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalaya,

Karakoram, and other nearby high ranges) contains the largest alpine

glaciers in the world and supplies melt water to over one billion people.

Glaciers in this region are governed by a multitude of forcing factors that

are geographically and temporally scale dependent. However, glacier

sensitivity to climate change and mountain geodynamics is poorly

understood. The region’s complex climate-glacier dynamics involve

interactions between climate systems and topography; ablation and debris

cover; glacier lake formation and drainage; mass movement and debris

production, earthquake triggering of landslides; and flooding and sediment

fluxes. Improved scientific understanding of this region is vital to a diverse

user group with interests including: water security, glacial change, and

hazard prediction. In this session, we welcome a broad spectrum of

scientific research on High Mountain Asia including studies on: climate

change, glaciers, seasonal snow, and natural hazards.

Primary Convener:  Umesh K Haritashya, University of Dayton, Earth and Environmental Geosciences, Dayton, OH, United States
Conveners:  Karl Rittger, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, Jeffrey S Kargel, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States and Edward Bair, University of California, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Chairs:  Umesh K Haritashya, University of Dayton, Earth and Environmental Geosciences, Dayton, OH, United States, Karl Rittger, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, Jeffrey S Kargel, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States and Edward Bair, University of California, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Umesh K Haritashya, University of Dayton, Earth and Environmental Geosciences, Dayton, OH, United States
Index Terms:

0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
0762 Mass balance 0764 Energy balance [CRYOSPHERE]
0776 Glaciology [CRYOSPHERE]
0798 Modeling [CRYOSPHERE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Inter-annual modulation of summer speed-up at the Eastern Karakorum glaciers detected by ALOS 1/2 data (137618)
Muhammad Usman, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan and Masato Furuya, Hokkaido University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Earth and Planetary Dynamics, Sapporo, Japan
Closing the water balance using ParBal, a parallel energy balance snowmelt model: a test case in the Sierra Nevada, USA and an application case in the Hunza Basin, Pakistan (138988)
Edward Bair, University of California, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Karl Rittger, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States and Jeff Dozier, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Simulation of glacier and snow melting over the upper Brahmaputra River basin in the Tibetan Plateau using a distributed hydrological model and GRACE satellites (149716)
Di Long, Xi Chen and Yang Hong, Tsinghua University, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China
Modelling the permafrost extent on the Tibetan Plateau (153406)
Lin Zhao1, Defu Zou2, Yu Sheng2, Ji Chen2, Tonghua Wu3, Jichun Wu4, Qiangqiang Pang1 and Wu Wang1, (1)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cryosphere Research Station on Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, Lanzhou, China, (2)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (3)CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou, China, (4)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Monitoring the State of Glaciers in the Himalaya Using Satellite-based multi-spectral measurements (187548)
Ramesh P Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, School of Engineering, Mandi, India and Samara Calçado de Azevedo, UNESP Sao Paulo State University, Rio Claro, Brazil
Incorporation of a glacier and snow melting model with CREST to resolve alpine glaciers and snow melting (154658)
Xi Chen1, Di Long2, Chao Zeng3 and Yang Hong2, (1)Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (2)Tsinghua University, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China, (3)Wuhan University, Beijing, China
A mathematical investigation of the air-ground temperature relationship in permafrost regions on the Tibetan Plateau (160579)
Guojie Hu1,2, Lin Zhao1,2, Xiaodong Wu1,2, Tonghua Wu1,2, Ren Li1,2, Changwei Xie2 and Defu Zou2, (1)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cryosphere Research Station on Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, Lanzhou, China, (2)Cryosphere Research Station on Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
Addressing “The Karakoram Anomaly” Through In-Situ Observations and Reanalysis Datasets (163327)
Furrukh Bashir, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Climatic Variation and Amounts and Variability of Runoff in the Upper Indus and Sutlej Basins (166411)
David Nigel Collins, University of Salford, School of Environment & Life Sciences, Salford, HD4, United Kingdom
Modelled and observed mass balance of Rikha Samba Glacier, Nepal, Central Himalaya (169445)
Tika Ram Gurung1,2, Rijan Bhakta Kayastha1, Koji Fujita3, Anna K Sinisalo4, Dorothea Stumm5, Sharad Joshi5 and Maxime Litt5, (1)Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal, (2)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)Nagoya University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya, Japan, (4)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Lalitpur, Nepal, (5)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal
Quantifying the individual contributions of snow and glaciers in High Mountain Asia River basins: Amu Darya, Syr Darya, Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra. (169970)
Karl Rittger1, Edward Bair2, Mary J. Brodzik3, Adina Racoviteanu4, Andrew P Barrett5, Siri Jodha S Khalsa3, Bruce H Raup6, Thomas H Painter7, Jeff Dozier8 and Richard L Armstrong9, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, (2)University of California, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Research Institute for Development, France, France, (5)National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)NSIDC, CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Predictions of Future Hydrological Conditions and Contribution of Snow and Ice Melt in Total Discharge of Shigar River Basin Central Karakoram, Pakistan (171909)
Javed Hassan1, Rijan Bhakta Kayastha1, Ahuti Shrestha1, Syed Hammad Ali1, Iram Bano1, Haleem Zaman Magsi2 and Richard L Armstrong3, (1)Kathmandu University, Himalayan Cryosphere, Climate and Disaster research Center, School of Science, Dhulikhel, Nepal, (2)Karakorum International University, Department of Earth Sciences, Gilgit, Pakistan, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Spatio-temporal variability in ice velocity, glacier surface temperature and surface processes in the Central Himalayan region (183946)
Umesh K Haritashya, University of Dayton, Earth and Environmental Geosciences, Dayton, OH, United States, David John Binger, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, United States and Jeffrey S Kargel, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
Ice melt estimation using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) of Ponkar Glacier, Manang, Nepal (177881)
Rijan Bhakta Kayastha1, Rakesh Kayastha1 and Richard L Armstrong2, (1)Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Estimation of discharge from Gilgit River Basin,Karakoram Pakistan using a Glacio-hydrological Model (179628)
Iram Sural1, Rijan Bhakta Kayastha1, Ahuti Shrestha1, Syed Hammad Ali1, Javed Hassan1, Haleem Zaman Magsi2 and Richard L Armstrong3, (1)Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal, (2)Karakorum International University, Department of Earth Sciences, Gilgit, Pakistan, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Recent Variability of the Observed Diurnal Temperature Range in the Karakoram and its Surrounding Mountains of Northern Pakistan (186511)
Ahmad Waqas, Athar H. and Muhammad Imran Shahzad, COMSATS Institute of Information Techonolgy, Department of Meteorology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Thermal Properties and Energy Fluxes in Pre-monsoon Season of 2016 at the Ponkar Debris-Covered Glacier, Manang, Nepal Himalaya (154254)
Mohan Bahadur Chand1, Rijan Bhakta Kayastha1, Rakesh Kayastha1 and Richard L Armstrong2, (1)Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
HYDROLOGICAL IMPACT ON GLACIER MELT OVER ASIAN BASINS (196072)
Kishore Pangaluru1, Enrico Ciraci1 and Isabella Velicogna2, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, United States
Climate Forcing and Climate-Glacier Dynamics in the Karakoram Himalaya (125006)
Michael Peter Bishop1,2 and Iliyana Dancheva Dobreva1,2, (1)Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Center for Geospatial Science, Applications and Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
Study of Annual Mass Balance (2011–2013) of Rikha Samba Glacier, Hidden Valley, Mustang, Nepal (125256)
Sanjaya Gurung1, Bikas Chandra Bhattrai2, Rijan Bhakta Kayastha2, Dorothea Stumm3, Sharad Joshi3 and Pradeep Kumar Mool4, (1)Real Time Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Lalitpur, Nepal, (2)Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal, (3)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (4)International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal

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