GC42A:
The Third Pole Environment (TPE) Under Global Changes II

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Session ID#: 32578

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, CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Beijing, China, Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States and Volker Mosbrugger, Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany
OSPA Liaison:  Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, 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:

Mechanism of the 2016 giant twin glacier collapse in Aru range, Tibet (222993)
Adrien Gilbert1, Silvan Leinss2, Andreas Kääb1, Jeffrey S Kargel3, Tandong Yao4, Simon Gascoin5, Gregory J Leonard6, Etienne Berthier7 and Alina Karki8, (1)University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences, Oslo, Norway, (2)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (5)CNRS, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere (CESBIO), Paris Cedex 16, France, (6)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (7)Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, (8)Tribhuvan University Trichandra Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal
Spring Soil Temperature Anomalies over Tibetan Plateau and Summer Droughts/Floods in East Asia (Invited) (210347)
Yongkang Xue1, Wenkai Li2, Qian LI3, Ismaila Diallo4, Peter C Chu5, Weidong Guo6 and Congbin Fu2, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, (3)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (5)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (6)Nanjing University, School of Atmospheric Sciences,Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, Nanjing, China
Does the climate high elevation along the Mt Everest can be represented by lower elevation stations? (249231)
Binod Dawadi, Kathmandu Center for Research and Education Chinese Academy of Sciences-Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal; Tribhuvan University, Central Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Kathmandu, Nepal and Eryuan Liang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Monitoring and Modeling the Climate System over the Third Pole region (235416)
Yaoming Ma1, Weiqiang Ma1, Lei Zhong2, Zeyong Hu3, Maoshan Li4, Zhikun Zhu5, Cunbo Han1, Binbin Wang1, Lang Zhang6, Zhangwei Ding6, Zhongyan Wang7 and Chao Xu5, (1)Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Land-Atmosphere Interaction and its Climatic Effects Group, State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (TPESER), Beijing, China, (2)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (3)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (4)Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, China, (5)Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (6)Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, Beijing, China, (7)Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS,, Beijing, China
Impact of a 1.5 °C Global Temperature Rise on the Glaciers of High Mountain Asia (228308)
Philip D. A. Kraaijenbrink1, Arthur Friedrich Lutz2, Marc FP Bierkens1,3 and Walter W. Immerzeel1, (1)Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)FutureWater, Wageningen, Netherlands, (3)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands
Multisphere Hydrological Modeling over the Third Pole Region (264029)
Lei Wang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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