C017
High Mountain Asia’s Cryosphere: Collaborative research to address climate, hydrology, geodynamics and hazards

Session ID#: 77520

Session Description:
The cryosphere of High Mountain Asia is governed by multiple forcing factors that are spatially and temporally scale dependent and orographically controlled. Our understanding of glacier sensitivity to climate change and mountain geodynamics is limited; however, glacier sensitivity impacts water resources, natural hazards and sea level. The region’s complex atmosphere, snow, and glacier dynamics involve interactions between climate systems and topography; ablation and debris cover; glacier lake formation, drainage and outburst; mass movement and debris production; hazard-induced landslides; flooding; and sediment fluxes. Understanding these components requires data sharing, collaboration and research integration across multiple disciplines and agencies. We invite scientists and stakeholders to participate in an interactive session aimed at enhancing research coordination and advancing knowledge of the High Mountain Asia cryosphere. This session welcomes multidisciplinary collaborative study that uses field, remote sensing and/or modeling to describe the coupled nature of atmospheric, climatic, glaciologic, hydrologic and geologic systems.
Co-Organized:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
0740 Snowmelt [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
0776 Glaciology [CRYOSPHERE]


Primary Convener:  Umesh K Haritashya, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, United States
Conveners:  Sarah B Kapnick, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Kimberly Casey, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Jeffrey S Kargel, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Umesh K Haritashya, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, United States
 
Understanding Climate-Glacier Dynamics in the Karakoram Himalaya using Debris-Flux and Ablation Modeling (489110)
Da Huo1, Michael Peter Bishop1,2, Brennan Young1,2 and Zhaohui Chi1,2, (1)Texas A&M University College Station, Geography, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Center for Geospatial Science, Applications and Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
 
Evaluation of runoff simulations from Noah-MP land surface models across High Mountain Asia from 2002 to 2010. (490829)
Yuan Xue1, Paul Houser1, Viviana Maggioni2, Yiwen Mei2, Sujay V Kumar3 and Yeosang Yoon4, (1)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)George Mason University Fairfax, Sid and Reva Dewberry Dept. of Civil, Environmental & Infrastructure Engineering, Fairfax, VA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States
 
Impact of Climate Change on Water and Sediment Fluxes in Cold Region: an Example from the Source Region of the Yangtze River, High Mountain Asia (491229)
Dongfeng Li1, Lu Xixi1 and Zhiwei Li2, (1)National University of Singapore, Department of Geography, Singapore, Singapore, (2)Changsha University of Science & Technology, School of Hydraulic Engineering, Changsha, China
 
Rethinking Monsoon- and Westerly Disturbance-Dominated Precipitation Dynamics and Impacts on the Cryosphere in High Mountain Asia (Invited) (493242)
Summer Rupper1, Collin Riley2, William J Steenburgh3, Courtenay Strong3, Eric Scott Johnson4 and Adam Kochanski3, (1)University of Utah, Department of Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (4)University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
Significant Glacier Surface Melt Detected Across the Himalayas in Synthetic Aperture Radar Time Series (493703)
Corey Scher, City University of New York Graduate Center, Earth and Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States, Nick Steiner, The City College of New York, Earth and Atmospheric Science, New York, United States and Kyle C. McDonald Dr., CUNY City College of New York. NY, USA, Department Chair of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, NY, United States
 
Hydroclimate variability and change in HMA (497982)
Sarah B Kapnick1, Hoi Ga Veronica Chan2, Paul A Ginoux3, Sergey Malyshev4, Elena Shevliakova5, Isabella Velicogna6, William Cooke1 and Thomas L Delworth4, (1)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)NOAA GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States, (6)UCI, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Assessing Glacier Mass Loss in the Alaknanda Basin of Garhwal Himalaya, during 2000-2017 (500934)
Remya S N, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India and Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, Dhanbad, India, Anil Vishnupant Kulkarni, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, Tajdarul HASSAN Syed, Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad, Department of Applied Geology, Dhanbad, India and H.C. Nainwal, H. N. B. Garhwal University, Srinagar, Uttrakhand, Geology, Srinagar, India
 
Trends in Snow Albedo and Radiative Forcing by Light Absorbing Particles over High Mountain Asia from Remote Sensing (506798)
Matthew Olson1, Summer Rupper2 and McKenzie Skiles1, (1)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, Department of Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
Analysis on the responses of the Asian water tower to climate warming and the consequent cryospheric changes (509305)
Taihua Wang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and Dawen Yang, Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China
 
The Spatiotemporal Variability of Surface Velocities of Maritime Glacier in the Kangri Karpo Mountains, Southeastern Tibetan Plateau (511010)
Shiyin Liu1, Kunpeng Wu2, Junli Xu3, Yu Zhu2 and Qiao Liu4, (1)Yunnan University, Kunming, China, (2)Institute of International Rivers and Eco-Security, Yunnan University, Kunming, China, (3)Department of Surveying and Mapping, Yancheng Teachers University, Yancheng, China, (4)IMHE Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China
 
Characteristics and changes of glaciers, rock glaciers and glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia since the 1960s (Invited) (511850)
Tobias Bolch1, Atanu Bhattacharya2, Owen King2 and Dr. Simon Allen3, (1)University of St Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable development, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (2)University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (3)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Grand Challenges of Hydrologic Modelling for Water Resource Management in High Mountain Asia (518580)
Shruti Khadka Mishra1, Anthony A Arendt2, Rijan Bhakta Kayastha3, Sarah B Kapnick4, Hoi Ga Veronica Chan5, Alexandra (Sasha) Richey6, Kimberly Casey7,8, Nir Krakauer9, Umesh K Haritashya10, Viviana Maggioni11, Yun Qian12, John Hayse13, Kirk Lagory14, Richard B Lammers15, Batuhan Osmanoglu7, Kyle McDonald16, Veerabhadra Rao Kotamarthi17, Sujay V Kumar7 and NASA HIMAT, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal, (4)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (6)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States, (9)City College, CUNY, New York, NY, United States, (10)University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, United States, (11)George Mason University Fairfax, Sid and Reva Dewberry Dept. of Civil, Environmental & Infrastructure Engineering, Fairfax, VA, United States, (12)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (13)Agronne national laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States, (14)Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, United States, (15)University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, NH, United States, (16)Reykjavik, Iceland, (17)Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL, United States
 
Validation of modeled snow properties in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan (518641)
Ned Bair, University of California, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Karl Rittger, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Jawairia Ashfaq Ahmad, University of Maryland, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College Park, MD, United States and Doug Chabot, None, Bozeman, MT, United States
 
Dynamical downscaling of atmospheric field of the Lake Issyk-kul watershed using CReSiBUC (528805)
Kenji Tanaka1, Chihiro Hiraoka2, Temur Khujanazarov2, Sanjar Sadyrov1 and Rysbek Satylkanov3, (1)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (2)Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (3)Kyrgyz Institute of Water Problems and Hydropower, Bishkek, Kyrgyz
 
Analysis on Glacier Meteorological Forcing Data in the Tian Shan in Kyrgyz Republic (530250)
Chihiro Hiraoka1, Kenji Tanaka1, Shigenobu Tanaka2, Temur Khujanazarov1, Sanjar Sadyrov3 and Rysbek Satylkanov4, (1)Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (2)Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan, (3)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (4)Kyrgyz Institute of Water Problems and Hydropower, Bishkek, Kyrgyz
 
Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods (GLOFs) Modelling of Thulagi and Lower Barun Glacial Lakes of Nepalese Himalaya (536005)
Sunwi Maskey, Rijan Bhakta Kayastha and Rakesh Kayastha, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal
 
Characterizing landslide changes across High Mountain Asia with remote sensing data (537326)
Pukar Man Amatya, Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, Dalia Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Thomas Stanley, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Sarah B. Kapnick, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States and Salvatore Pascale, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Understanding Hydrological Processes in High Mountain Asia: A Case Study from the base of Mount Everest using Stable Isotope (540563)
Prasanta Sanyal1, Bibhasvata Dasgupta1, Ajay Ajay1 and Thamban Meloth2, (1)Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Earth Sciences, Kolkata, India, (2)National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Cryosphere Sciences, Vasco da Gama, India
 
Remote Seismic and Satellite Observations of a Himalayan Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (542121)
Josh Maurer, Columbia University of New York, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palisades, NY, United States, Joerg M Schaefer, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observ, Palisades, NY, United States, Joshua B Russell, LDEO - Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Summer Rupper, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Norbu Wangdi, Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment, Center for Water, Climate and Environment Policy, Bumthang, Bhutan, Aaron E Putnam, University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, ME, United States and Nicolas E. Young, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
3-D High Mountain Asia glacier velocity retrieval in the West Kunlun Shan using SAR amplitude Pixel-Offset SBAS technique (543605)
Yueling Shi, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, Guoxiang Liu, Southwest Jiaotong University, Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Chengdu, China and C.K. Shum, The Ohio State University, Division of Geodetic Science, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States
 
Mapping Snowmelt Progression in the Himalaya-Karakoram Region With Sentinel-1 SAR (545808)
Jewell Lund, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Richard R Forster, Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Summer Rupper, Corvallis, OR, United States, Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Elias J Deeb, CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States and Muhammed Zia Hashmi, Global Change Impact Studies Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan
 
Yak-dung burning influences refractory black carbon concentrations in seasonal snow at lower elevations of the Dudh Koshi River Basin of Nepal (560470)
Alia Lauren Khan, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States, Karl Rittger, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Peng Xian, Naval Research Lab, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States, Joseph M Katich, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Richard L Armstrong, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Rijan Bhakta Kayastha, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal and Diane M McKnight, University of Colorado at Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Role of Permafrost and Seasonally Frozen Ground in Groundwater System of Northern Himalayan Mountains (571772)
Yingying Yao, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Xian, China, Chunmiao Zheng, Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China, Charles Andrews, S.S. Papadopulos and Associates, Inc., Bethesda, United States and Yiping Wu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Xi'an, China
 
Remote sensing and computational technique based assessment of significant controlling factors of South Lhonak glacial lake, Sikkim Himalaya (583394)
Pranata Hazra, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India and Akhouri Pramod Krishna, Birla Institute of Technology, Department of Remote Sensing, Ranchi, India
 
Estimation of Ice Volume from Field Data and the Shallow Ice Approximation Model: A Case Study of Satopanth Glacier, Central Himalaya, India (585068)
Aditya Mishra, H.N.B. Garhwal University, Department of Geology, Srinagar Garhwal, India, Sunil Singh Shah, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Department of Geology, Srinagar Garhwal, India, Argha Banerjee, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India, Earth and Climate Science, Pune, India, H.C. Nainwal, H. N. B. Garhwal University, Srinagar, Uttrakhand, Geology, Srinagar, India and R. Shankar, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
 
Mapping Himalayan and Karakoram Glaciers using Deep Learning Approach (590137)
Zhiyuan Xie1, Umesh K Haritashya1, Vijayan K Asari2, Brennan Young3, Michael Peter Bishop3 and Jeffrey S Kargel4, (1)University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, United States, (2)University of Dayton, Dayton, United States, (3)Texas A&M University College Station, Geography, College Station, TX, United States, (4)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
The impact of debris cover and glacier dynamics on projections of glacier mass change in High Mountain Asia (596613)
David Rounce, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Regine Hock, Univ of AK-Geophysical Inst, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Harry Zekollari, Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), Zurich, Switzerland
 
Monitoring the Himalayan Atmospheric Environment using satellite and ground observations (602988)
Ramesh P Singh1, Dericks P Shukla1, Akshansha Chauhan2, Sharad Kumar Gupta1 and Nitu Singh1, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, School of Engineering, Mandi, India, (2)Applied Science Department, Vidya College of Engineering, Meerut, India
 
­­Climate Sensitivity of the Glacier Mass Budget of High Mountain Asia Based on Satellite Gravimetry (610610)
Susanna Werth1, Sonam Futi Sherpa1, Manoochehr Shirzaei1, Kelin X Whipple1, Soumendra Nath Bhanja2 and Abhijit Mukherjee3, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, (3)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Geology and Geophysics, Kharagpur, India
 
Water Budget of the Indus River Basin between 2002 and 2015 (616288)
Enrico Ciraci1, Isabella Velicogna2, Geruo A3, Richard B Lammers4, Danielle S Grogan4, Alexander A Proussevitch4 and Yi-Chen Ethan Yang5, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)UCI, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, NH, United States, (5)UMASS-Civil & Environ Engrg, Amherst, PA, United States
 
Multi-dimensional Assessment of Glacier Surge Dynamics in Karakoram Region Using Remote Sensing and Glacio-hydrological Modelling Techniques (616977)
Javed Hassan1, Xiaoqing Chen2, Rijan Bhakta Kayastha3 and Yong Nie1, (1)IMHE Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China, (2)Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Mountain Hazards and Surface Processes, Chengdu, China, (3)Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal
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