C33D:
Understanding the High-Mountain Water Cycle and Cryosphere in the Anthropocene II Posters

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Session ID#: 32665

Session Description:
High-mountain catchments play an important water supplying role and are sensitive to climate change. Yet the monitoring and modelling of such regions remains a challenge, due to poor accessibility, limited data availability and the lack of numerical models that address key cryospheric and hydrological processes in sufficient physical detail. This session brings together studies that focus on integrating observations, remote sensing and numerical models with the aim to understand present and future glacio-, hydro- and meteorological processes in mountainous regions. It focuses on advances in understanding high-altitude meteorology, feedbacks between the cryosphere and atmosphere, glacier and snow dynamics, climate change impacts and the associated hydrological response. The session welcomes in particular studies that: i) link results from atmospheric modelling to the high-altitude water cycle, (ii) advance the process understanding of glaciers, snow and the hydrological cycle, (iv) quantify hydro-meteorological extremes, and (v) assess impacts of climate change using process-based modelling.
Primary Convener:  Walter W. Immerzeel, Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands
Conveners:  Alfonso Fernandez, Universidad de Concepción, Geography, Concepción, Chile, Joseph M Shea, University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Jakob F Steiner, Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands
Chairs:  Joseph M Shea, University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Walter W. Immerzeel, Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands
OSPA Liaison:  Jakob F Steiner, Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
0744 Rivers [CRYOSPHERE]
1621 Cryospheric change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Modeling the GLOF Hazard Process Chain at Imja Lake in the Nepal Himalaya (207427)
Jonathan Lala, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Daene C. McKinney, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States and David Rounce, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Advances in Mapping Debris Thickness of Debris-Covered Glaciers in the Nepal Himalaya (218690)
David Rounce1, Owen King2, Michael McCarthy2, David E Shean3 and Franco Salerno4, (1)Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (2)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, (4)CNR, water research institute, Brugherio, Italy
The impact of snow and glaciers on meteorological variables in the Khumbu Valley, Nepalese Himalaya. (250624)
Emily Potter1,2, Andrew Orr2 and Ian Willis1, (1)Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
What controls the survival of ice cliffs on debris-covered glaciers? An investigation into the aspect-dependent evolution of supraglacial cliffs in the Nepalese Himalaya (269155)
Francesca Pellicciotti, Northumbria University, Department of Geography, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom and Pascal Buri, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland
Modelling the contribution of supraglacial ice cliffs to the mass-balance of glaciers in the Langtang catchment, Nepalese Himalaya (271715)
Pascal Buri, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland, Jakob F Steiner, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, Evan Miles, University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom, Silvan Ragettli, Hydrosolutions Ltd., Zurich, Switzerland; ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Francesca Pellicciotti, Northumbria University, Department of Geography, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Relative roles of aerosols, SST, and snow impurity on snowmelt over the Tibetan Plateau and its their impacts on South Asian summer monsoon (281897)
Si-Chee Tsay1, Kyu-Myong Kim1, William K-M Lau2, Dr. Teppei J Yasunari, PhD3, Sarith P P Mahanama1, Randal D Koster4 and Arlindo daSilva5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, United States, (3)GESTAR/USRA--NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard SFC, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Recent Variations in Observed Daily Temperatures and its Impact on the River Discharge of the Upper Indus Basin (283963)
Ahmad Waqas and Athar H., COMSATS Institute of Information Techonolgy, Department of Meteorology, Islamabad, Pakistan
NASA's High Mountain Asia Team (HiMAT): collaborative research to study changes of the High Asia region (218702)
Anthony A Arendt, University of Washington, eScience Institute, Seattle, United States, Paul Houser, George Mason University Fairfax, Geography and Geoinformation Sciences, Fairfax, United States, Sarah B Kapnick, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Jeffrey S Kargel, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States, Dalia Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Sujay V Kumar, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Steven A Margulis, UCLA, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, Kyle C McDonald, CUNY City College of New York, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, NY, United States, Batuhan Osmanoglu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Thomas H Painter, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Bruce H Raup, NSIDC, CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Summer Rupper, University of Utah, School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Si-Chee Tsay, NASA, Greenbelt, United States, Isabella Velicogna, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and NASA High Mountain Asia Team
The Contribution to High Asia Runoff from Ice and Snow (CHARIS): Understanding the source and trends of cryospheric contributions to the water balance (279891)
Karl Rittger1, Richard L Armstrong2, Edward Bair3, Adina Racoviteanu4, Mary J. Brodzik2, Alice Frances Hill5, Alana M Wilson6, Alia Lauren Khan7, Joan M Ramage8, Siri Jodha S Khalsa9, Andrew P Barrett4, Bruce H Raup10 and Thomas H Painter11, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Leidos, Inc., Reston, United States, (4)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Nelson, New Zealand, (6)Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Western Washington University, Bellingham, United States, (8)Lehigh University, Bethlehem, United States, (9)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, United States, (10)NSIDC, CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Preliminary results and assessment of the MAR outputs over High Mountain Asia (253990)
Melissa Linares, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Marco Tedesco, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, Steven A Margulis, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Gonzalo Cortés, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Xavier Fettweis, University of Liège, Département de Géographie, Liège, Belgium
The Open Global Glacier Model (250600)
Ben Marzeion, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, Fabien Maussion, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria and The OGGM Consortium
Proglacial Hydrogeology of the Cordillera Blanca (Peru): Integrating Field Observations with Hydrogeophysical Inversions to Inform Groundwater Flow Simulations and Conceptual Models (240118)
Robin Lee Glas, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States, Laura Lautz, Syracuse University, Syracuse, United States, Jeffrey M McKenzie, McGill University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, Robert Moucha, Syracuse University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse, United States and Bryan G Mark, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
Geodetic mass balance measurements on debris and clean-ice tropical glaciers in Ecuador (265813)
Jeff La Frenierre, Gustavus Adolphus College, Department of Geography, Saint Peter, MN, United States, Casey Robert Decker, Gustavus Adolphus College, Geography, Saint Peter, MN, United States, Ekkehard Jordan, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Oliver Wigmore, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Inst. of Arctic and Alpine Res., Boulder, CO, United States, Brendan E Hodge, UNAVCO Inc, Boulder, CO, United States, Charles Niederriter, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, United States and Abigail Michels, Gustavus Adolphus College, Geology, Saint Peter, MN, United States
Studying the Effects of Amazonian Land Cover Change on Glacier Mass Balance in the Tropical Andes (226047)
Bryan G Mark, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, Alfonso Fernandez, Universidad de Concepción, Geography, Concepción, Chile, Paolo Gabrielli, The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, Alvaro Montenegro, Ohio State University, Department of Geography, Columbus, OH, United States, Julio Postigo, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States and Robert Ake Hellstrom, Bridgewater State University, Geography, Bridgewater, MA, United States
Comparison of glacier loss on Qori Kalis, Peru and Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania over the last decade using digital photogrammetry and stereo analysis (240233)
Kara Lamantia, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
Is proglacial field an important contributor to runoff in glacierized watershed? Lesson learned from a case study in Duke River watershed, Yukon, Canada. (225115)
Anna Chesnokova and Michel Baraer, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, QC, Canada
Using Internet of Things inspired wireless sensor networks to monitor cryospheric processes (231097)
Jane K Hart, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom and Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, Electronics and Computer Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom

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