PP018
Hindu Kush-Himalayas Under a New Climate Regime

Session ID#: 72783

Session Description:
The Hindu Kush-Himalayas provide water resources for ⅕ of global population, and are increasingly under stress due to anthropogenic climate change. In order to assess this threat, paleoclimate and geologic assessments of the high Himalayas must be implemented to understand past climate variability in the region. Additional assessments of unknown present-day conditions are similarly required to understand how high-mountain systems are behaving under current conditions; including meteorological parameters, ice volume, snow chemistry, albedo, ablation rate, etc. Finally, modeling studies and environmental assessments are required in order to predict and prepare for future changes to this dynamic system.

We invite interdisciplinary abstracts addressing all aspects of the glacio-hydro-geo-climate system in this critical reason for a lively session driving toward solutions for climate mitigation in the region.

Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1879 Watershed [HYDROLOGY]
4932 Ice cores [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]

Primary Convener:  Aurora C Elmore, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Paul Andrew Mayewski, University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States, Ananta Gajurel, Tribhuvan University, Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal and Shichang Kang, Inst. of Tibetan Plateau Res., Beijing, China
Primary Liaison:  Aurora C Elmore, Seattle, WA, United States
 
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Paul Andrew Mayewski, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, Ananta P Gajurel, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal and Scientific Team of National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mt. Everest
 
Chronology of past mountain glacier fluctuations in the eastern Himalaya as context for industrial-age glacier recession (490191)
Aaron E Putnam1,2, Joerg Schaefer3, Summer Rupper4, Edward R Cook5, Karma Tsering6, Chhimi Dorji6, David Putnam7, Nicolas E. Young5, Tshewang Rinzin6, Pashupati Sharma8, Ananta Gajurel9, Paul Krusic10, Peter Strand11 and Laura Mattas11, (1)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, ME, United States, (3)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, NY, United States, (4)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (5)Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)Ministry of Economic Affairs, Department of Hydro-Meteorological Services, Thimphu, Bhutan, (7)University of Maine at Presque Isle, Presque Isle, ME, United States, (8)Ministry of Economic Affairs, Department of Hydro-Meteorological Services, Thimpu, Bhutan, (9)Tribhuvan University, Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (10)Surrey, BC, Canada, (11)University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States
 
Climate fluctuations in interior Asia: Documenting the Last Glacial Maximum and termination in southeastern Tibetan Plateau of China and the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia (491334)
Peter Strand1, Aaron E Putnam2, Oyungerel Sambuu3, Zhisheng An4, Weijian Zhou4, Guocheng Dong5, Xianghui Kong6, Mariah J Radue7, Jessica Stevens8 and Benjamin James Lindsay9, (1)University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Westfield, NJ, United States, (4)State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China, (5)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (6)Institute of Earth Environment Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'An, China, (7)University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States, (8)Gary Comer College Prep High School, Chicago, IL, United States, (9)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States
 
Documenting the last glacial maximum and termination of the Khumbu Glacier, Khumbu Himal, Nepalese Himalaya (492481)
Laura Alexandra Mattas1, Aaron E Putnam2, Peter Strand3, Ananta Gajurel4, Bhuwan Awasthi5, Samir Dhungel5 and Lal Bahadur Thapa Singjali5, (1)Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States, (4)Tribhuvan University, Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (5)Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
 
World’s Highest Ice Core and Laser Sampling (500461)
Mariusz Potocki1, Paul Andrew Mayewski1 and Heather Clifford2, (1)University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States, (2)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States
 
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Walter W. Immerzeel, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands and National Geographic Water Tower Team of Experts
 
METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF HIGH ALTITUDE AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATION DATA FROM THE EVEREST REGION (511791)
Arbindra Khadka1, Baker Perry2, Tom Kenneth Roger Matthews3, Deepak Aryal1, Dibas Shrestha1 and deepak aryal, (1)Tribhuvan University, Central Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (2)Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, United States, (3)Loughborough University, Croxley Green, United Kingdom
 
New Heights in Glacier-Climate Research: Initial Insights From the Highest Weather Stations on Earth (515038)
Tom Matthews1, Baker Perry2, Deepak Aryal3, Dibas Shrestha3, Arbindra Khadka3 and National Geographic and Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mount Everest Team, (1)Loughborough University, Department of Geography and Environment, Loughborough, United Kingdom, (2)Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, United States, (3)Tribhuvan University, Central Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Kathmandu, Nepal
 
Updated Assessment of Environmental and Climate Changes in the Mt. Everest (Qomolangma) Region (537581)
Kang Shichang, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, Qianggong Zhang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Yulan Zhang, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, SKLCS, Lanzhou, China
 
Heterogeneous recession of Tibetan glaciers during the early Holocene (Invited) (544180)
Shugui Hou, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
 
Examining the temporal variability of the mass balance of Everest’s glaciers over the last six decades. (572404)
Owen King1, Atanu Bhattacharya2, Tobias Bolch3, Sam Guilford4, Samantha Brooks Hyde4 and Alex Tait4, (1)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (3)University of St Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable development, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (4)National Geographic Society, Washington, United States
 
Geochemistry of the Narayani river sediments tracing the evolution of erosion of Central Nepal over the LGM-Holocene and last decades (584009)
Christian France-Lanord1, Ananta Gajurel2, Albert Galy1, Jerome Lave1, Maarten Lupker3 and Guillaume Morin4, (1)CRPG-CNRS-Univ. Lorraine, Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France, (2)Tribhuvan University, Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)IGP ETHZ, Zürich, Switzerland, (4)GET Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France
 
Automatic Weather Stations at Extreme Elevations on Mt. Everest: Initial Observations and Applications (588137)
Baker Perry1, Tom Kenneth Roger Matthews2, Deepak Aryal3, Dibas Shrestha3, Arbindra Khadka3 and National Geographic and Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mt. Everest Team, (1)Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, United States, (2)Loughborough University, Croxley Green, United Kingdom, (3)Tribhuvan University, Central Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Kathmandu, Nepal
 
PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM HIGH RESOLUTION LIDAR AND PHOTOGRAPHIC SCANNING OF THE KHUMBU GLACIER AND EVEREST BASECAMP (615576)
Alex Tait1, Corey Jaskolski2, Chris Millbern2, Kenneth Broad3, Ron Chapple4 and Phil Carter4, (1)National Geographic Society, Washington, United States, (2)Virtual Wonders, Delafield, WI, United States, (3)University of Miami, Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, Miami, FL, United States, (4)GEO1, Hawthorne, CA, United States
 
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Ananta P Gajurel1, Mary Hubbard2, Bibek Giri3, Sanjit Maka4, Balkrishna Shrestha4, Anil Ghimire4, Aaron E Putnam5 and Paul Andrew Mayewski6, (1)Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, (2)Montana State University, Department of Earth Sciences, Bozemann, United States, (3)Montana State University, Department of Earth Sciences, Bozeman, United States, (4)Tribhuvan University, Department of Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (5)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States
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