C14B:
High Mountain Asia's Cryosphere: Systems Dynamics and Hazards II

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Session ID#: 17559

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:

Recent advances in understanding climate, glacier and river dynamics in high mountain Asia (Invited) (124891)
Walter W. Immerzeel, Utrecht University, Geosciences, Utrecht, Netherlands
Competing roles of air temperature and summer precipitation events on proglacial stream discharges in Chhota Shigri Glacier catchment, Indian Himalaya (147544)
Ramanathan AL, Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Environmental Sciences, New Delhi, India
Recent Glacier Changes in High Mountain Asia: A Spatially Diverse Pattern (166583)
Desiree Treichler, University of Oslo, Geosciences, Oslo, Norway, Andreas Kaeaeb, University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences, Oslo, Norway, Nadine D Salzmann, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland and Joseph M Shea, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal
Contrasted Glacier Mass Wastage Between the Southern and the Inner Part of Everest Region Revealed from In-Situ Measurements since 2007. (127412)
Sonam Futi Sherpa1,2, Patrick Wagnon3, Fanny Brun4, Etienne Berthier5, Christian Vincent6, Yves Lejeune7, Yves Arnaud8 and Rijan Bhakta Kayastha2, (1)International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (2)Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal, (3)IRD Institute for Research and Development, Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, Grenoble, France, (4)University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, (5)Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, (6)University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE, Grenoble, France, (7)Météo-France - CNRS CNRM/CEN UMR 3589, Grenoble, France, (8)IRD/UGA/CNRS/INPG, Laboratoire d'étude des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environnement (LTHE), UMR5564, Grenoble, France
On the Karakoram glacier anomaly (Invited) (121369)
Andreas Kaeaeb, Pierre-Marie Lefeuvre, Thomas Schellenberger, Desiree Treichler, Bas Altena, Vetle Jonassen, Luc Girod and Christopher Nuth, University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences, Oslo, Norway
Downscaling GLOF Hazards: An in-depth look at the Nepal Himalaya (122812)
David Rounce, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Daene C. McKinney, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States and Jonathan Lala, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Comparing Source Waters And Flowpaths For Two Glacierized Basins In The Eastern Himalaya’s (139551)
Mark W Williams1, Alana M Wilson2, Dendup Tshering1 and Rijan Bhakta Kayastha3, (1)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal
High Mountain Asia Glacier Area and Meltwater Flux Changes Under Future Climate Scenarios (181243)
Summer Rupper1, Eric Scott Johnson2, Kathleen M Huybers3, William F Christensen4, Shane Reese4, Zachary White4 and Richard R Forster1, (1)University of Utah, School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)University of Utah, Department of Geography, Salt Lake City, WA, United States, (4)Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States

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