C33E:
The Cryosphere in Mountain Regions under a Warming Climate II Posters


Session ID#: 8629

Session Description:
The major components of the cryosphere in mountain regions--such as glaciers, snow cover, permafrost, seasonally frozen ground, as well as lake and river ice--are sensitive components of the climate system and provide key indicators of climate change. The cryosphere in mountain regions has experienced dramatic changes in recent decades. Changes in major cryospheric components over mountain regions have impacts on sea level, water resources, ecology, the frequency of glacier lake outbursts and other natural hazards, and thus have environmental and engineering significance. We welcome contributions from a broad range of mountain cryospheric research including climate change in cold and arid regions; observed changes; climatic and environmental records; impacts on sea level, water resources, and ecosystems; modeling; hazards; adaptation and regional sustainable development; and impacts of the mountain cryosphere on cold regions engineering.
Primary Convener:  Oliver W Frauenfeld, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
Conveners:  Tingjun Zhang, LZU Lanzhou University, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China, Dawen Yang, Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China and Oliver W Frauenfeld, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
Chairs:  Oliver W Frauenfeld, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States and Tingjun Zhang, LZU Lanzhou University, Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems（Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China
OSPA Liaison:  Oliver W Frauenfeld, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

0702 Permafrost [CRYOSPHERE]
0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1621 Cryospheric change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Multi-resolution Changes in the Spatial Extent of Perennial Arctic Alpine Snow and Ice Fields with Potential Archaeological Significance in the Central Brooks Range, Alaska (76264)
Molly E Tedesche1, Adam K Freeburg2, Jeffrey T Rasic3, Christopher Ciancibelli2 and Steven R Fassnacht4, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Archaeology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Chief of Integrated Resources Management, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Watershed Science, Fort Collins, United States
Climate Change Impacts on the Cryosphere of Mountain Regions: Validation of a Novel Model Using the Alaska Range (80181)
Thomas M. Mosier1, David F Hill2 and Kendra V. Sharp1, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
Global Trends and Variability In the Mass Balance of Mountain and Valley Glaciers (65678)
William Gregory Medwedeff, University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and Gerard Roe, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
Very small glaciers under climate change: from the local to the global scale (73528)
Matthias Huss, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland and Mauro Fischer, Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
Quantifying Glacier Runoff Contribution to Nooksack River, WA in 2013-15 (68239)
Mauri S Pelto, Nichols College, Dudley, MA, United States
Hypsometric control on glacier mass balance sensitivity in Alaska (74967)
Daniel McGrath1, Louis Sass2, Anthony A Arendt3, Shad O'Neel1, Christian Kienholz4, Chris Larsen5 and Evan W Burgess6, (1)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, (2)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, United States, (3)University of Washington, eScience Institute, Seattle, United States, (4)University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
A Mass Balance Model of Lyell and Maclure Glaciers in Yosemite National Park (65812)
Kevin Anthony Mendoza1,2, Greg M Stock1 and Jay E Sharping2, (1)Yosemite National Park, El Portal, CA, United States, (2)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States
Origin and Distribution Of Glacial Lakes: A Case Study In Tista Basin, India (60741)
Anil Vishnupant Kulkarni, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Bengaluru, India
Determining the Current and Future Health of Low-Latitude Andean Glaciers Using an Equilibrium Line Altitude Model and Hypsometric Data from the Randolph Glacier Inventory (86744)
Andrew Malone, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States and Douglas R MacAyeal, University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, United States
Modeling mass balance and volume of Xiao Dongkemadi glacier in the Central Tibetan Plateau from 1989 to 2050 (76640)
Keqin Duan, School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
Assessing Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Hazard in the Nepal Himalayas using Satellite Imagery and Hydraulic Models (72330)
David Rounce, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Daene C. McKinney, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
Impacts of Forecasted Climate Change on Snowpack, Glacier Recession, and Streamflow in the Nooksack River Basin (85105)
Ryan David Murphy, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States, Robert J Mitchell, Western Washington University, Bellingham, United States, Christina Bandaragoda, University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States and Oliver J Grah, Nooksack Indian Tribe, Natural Resources Department, Deming, WA, United States
Hydrology of paraglacial catchments: preferential flow sustaining biodiversity hotspots in a changing climate (79267)
Michael Grocott1, Nicholas Kettridge2, C Bradley1 and Alexander Milner3,4, (1)University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, (2)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth & Environ. Sciences,, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (3)University of Alaska, Fairbanks, United States, (4)University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Impact of Cryosphere Hydrological Changes on the River Runoff in the Tibetan Plateau (72135)
Yuhan Wang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and Dawen Yang, Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China
Analyzing the effect of cryosphere processes on catchment hydrology through a modeling approach: a case study in the Heihe River basin, Northwest China (68746)
Bing Gao, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, School of Water resources and enviroment, Beijing, China, Dawen Yang, Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China and Yuhan Wang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Effects of warming on groundwater flow in mountainous snowmelt-dominated catchments (75181)
Sarah G Evans, Appalachian State University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Boone, NC, United States, Shemin Ge, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States and Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, United States
Hydrograph separation of a sub-arctic glacial watershed, Interior Alaska (85199)
Tiffany Gatesman, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Thomas A Douglas, US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL, United States, Anna K Liljedahl, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States and Tom Trainor, University of Alaska Fairbanks - UAF, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Effects of snow persistence on streamflow generation in mountain regions of the western U.S. (69931)
John Christopher Hammond, U.S. Geological Survey, Maryland-Delaware-DC Water Science Center, Catonsville, United States and Stephanie K Kampf, Colorado State University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Hydrological changes prints in subarctic watersheds discharge records: a case study in the Duke River watershed, Yukon, Canada. (74862)
Anna Chesnokova and Michel Baraer, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, QC, Canada
Changes and variability of permafrost temperatures across Siberia from 1961 through 2013 (67829)
Kang Wang, University of Colorado Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Tingjun Zhang, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Response of soil seasonal freeze to climate change from 1950 to 2010 across China (63242)
Xiaoqing Peng, LZU Lanzhou University, Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems（Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou, China, Tingjun Zhang, LZU Lanzhou University, College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou, China and Bin Cao, LZU Lanzhou University, Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems（Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China
Permafrost conditions over Heihe River Basin in Qilian Mountains of Western China (62203)
Bin Cao1, Tingjun Zhang1, Xiankai Zhang1, Xiaoqing Peng2, Kang Wang3, Hong Guo1, Lei Zheng4, Qingfeng Wang5, Xudong Wan2, Cuicui Mu2, Jichun Wu6, Huijun Jin7 and Ruixia He8, (1)LZU Lanzhou University, Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems（Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (2)LZU Lanzhou University, Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems（Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Wuhan University, Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan, China, (5)Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Frozen, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute Soil Engineering, Lanzhou, China, (6)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, (7)Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Frozen, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute Soil Engineering, Beijing, China, (8)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soils Engineering, Lanzhou, China
Simulation of Permafrost and Seasonally Frozen Ground Conditions and their Response to Recent Climate Warming in the Tibetan Plateau (76435)
Wenjiang Zhang1, Dr. Yonghong Yi2, Elchin E Jafarov3, Kun Yang4, John S Kimball2 and Kechao Song1, (1)Sichuan University, Dept of Hydrology, Chengdu, China, (2)University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, College of Forestry & Conservation, Missoula, MT, United States, (3)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (4)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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