GC11F:
The Third Pole Environment (TPE) under Global Changes I

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Session ID#: 15556

Session Description:
The Tibetan Plateau and surrounding mountain regions, known as the Third Pole, cover an area of > 5 million km2 and are considered to be the water tower of Asia. Like the Arctic and Antarctica, the Third Pole’s environment is extremely sensitive to global climate change. In recent years, scientists from around the globe have increased observational, remote sensing and numerical modeling research related to the Third Pole in an effort to quantify and predict past, current and future scenarios. Co-sponsored by TPE (www.tpe.ac.cn), this session is dedicated to studies of Third Pole atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere and their interactions with global change. Related contributions are welcomed.
Primary Convener:  Tandong Yao, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, Volker Mosbrugger, Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany and Fan Zhang, 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, Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States and Volker Mosbrugger, Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany
OSPA Liaison:  Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • C - Cryosphere
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1621 Cryospheric change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Climate Changes Documented in Ice Core Records from Third Pole Glaciers, with Emphasis on the Guliya Ice Cap in the Western Kunlun Mountains over the Last 100 Years (179923)
Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, Tandong Yao, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Emilie Beaudon, The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, Department of Geography, Columbus, OH, United States, Mary Elizabeth Davis, The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, Donald V Kenny, The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States and Ping-Nan Lin, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
Radiation, Aerosol Joint Observation-Modeling Exploration over Glaciers in Himalayan Asia (RAJO-MEGHA) (135246)
Si-Chee Tsay and Brent Holben, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Satellite-observed snow cover variations over the Tibetan Plateau for the period 2001-2014 (170071)
Xiaona Chen and Di Long, Tsinghua University, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China
Snowmelt in the Tibetan Plateau (119676)
Fan Zhang, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Improving Snow Process Modeling with Satellite-Based Estimation of Near-Surface-Air-Temperature Lapse Rate (138034)
Lei Wang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Climate Change Impacts on the Upper Indus Hydrology: Sources, Shifts and Extremes (124874)
Arthur Friedrich Lutz1, Walter W. Immerzeel2, Philip D. A. Kraaijenbrink2, Arun B. Shrestha3 and Marc FP Bierkens2, (1)FutureWater, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal
Spatiotemporal Variations in the Water Storage of Closed Lakes on the Tibetan Plateau and Their Climatic Responses from 1976-2013 (133925)
Liping Zhu, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Ruimin Yang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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