C21F:
Drivers of Change in the High-Mountain Water Cycle Posters


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Session ID#: 46993

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, Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands
Conveners:  David Rounce, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Duncan J Quincey, University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom and Emily Collier, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Climate System Research Group, Institute of Geography, Erlangen, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Walter W. Immerzeel, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Chairs:  Walter W. Immerzeel, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands and Duncan J Quincey, University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  David Rounce, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
0744 Rivers [CRYOSPHERE]
3309 Climatology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A Landsat-derived Record of Lake Area Fluctuations on the Altiplano-Puna Plateau (435930)
Maya F. Stokes, MIT, EAPS, Cambridge, United States, Christine Y. Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States and David McGee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States
Climatic conditions amplifying seasonal areal change of glacial lakes in the Bhutan Himalaya (376659)
Hiroto Nagai, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Consistent Reanalysis of Five North American Glacier Mass Balance Records (395505)
Shad O'Neel1, Chris McNeil2, Adam Clark3, Louis Sass4, Caitlyn Florentine5, Erin Whorton6, Zachery Miller7, Emily H Baker4, Daniel McGrath8, Krista F Myers9, Erich Peitzsch10 and Daniel B Fagre11, (1)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, (2)United States Geological Survey, Anchorage, United States, (3)USGS, Kallispell, MT, United States, (4)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, United States, (5)University of Montana, Missoula, United States, (6)USGS Washington Water Science Center, Tacoma, WA, United States, (7)USGS, Kallispell, United States, (8)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (10)USGS, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, West Glacier, United States, (11)Emeritus, West Glacier, United States
Differences in observed climate data affect the spread of projecting future glacier mass changes (361394)
Megumi Watanabe1, Aki Yanagawa1, Yukiko Hirabayashi2, Satoshi Watanabe3 and Shinjiro Kanae4, (1)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (2)The Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (3)University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Engineering, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (4)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
On the formation mechanism for wintertime extreme precipitation events over the southeastern Tibetan Plateau (426331)
Tianpei Qiu1, Wen-Yu Huang2, Zifan Yang1, Daiyu Lin1, Jonathon S. Wright1, Bin Wang3 and Xinsheng He1, (1)Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China, (2)Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (3)Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Seasonal glacier runoff including the debris effects over Central Europe (401623)
Orie Sasaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Koji Fujita, Nagoya University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya, Japan, Yukiko Hirabayashi, The Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan and Shinjiro Kanae, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
The Nexus of an Alpine Glacier Watershed, Climate Change and Human Activity: Nooksack River, Washington (377889)
Mauri S Pelto, Nichols College, Dudley, MA, United States
Tracking the spatiotemporal patterns of the high mountain water cycle with isotopic and geochemical data in the Arun watershed, eastern Nepal (400751)
Katalyn Voss, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Oliver Chadwick, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Bodo Bookhagen, University of Potsdam, Institute of Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

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