Dear colleagues,
like every year we are hoping to welcome you to our high-mountain water cycle session at AGU this fall. We are looking forward to the conference in its new format with all the challenges and opportunities it will bring. The two invited speakers will be Kelly Gleason from Portland State University and Amato Evan from UC San Diego.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/103084
Deadline for submissions of abstracts is the 29th of July.
Session Details:
High-mountain catchments play an important water supplying role and are sensitive to climate change. Yet the monitoring and modeling 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 modeling to the high-altitude water cycle, (ii) advance the process understanding of glaciers, snow and the hydrological cycle, (iii) quantify hydro-meteorological extremes, and (iv) assess impacts of climate change using process-based modeling.
On behalf of all the conveners:
David Rounce, Carnegie Mellon University
Summer Rupper, University of Utah
Nick Siler, Oregon State University
Jakob Steiner, Utrecht University
Kind regards,
Jakob
