2nd Asia CliC Symposium

The state and fate of Asian Cryosphere –

 

Program/Agenda

 

Date: October 22 to 26, 2007

Venue: Ningwozhuang Hotel, Lanzhou, China

 

Organized by:

WCRP/CliC Science Steering Group

China CliC Committee

Japan CliC Committee

Gansu Provincial Meteorological Bureau

 

Supported by:

The State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, CAREERI, CAS

WCRP/CliC

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan

Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (CAREERI), CAS

Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS

Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences

Chinese Office of IPCC

 

Symposium Website: http://www.casnw.net/clic/Asia_clic.html

 

Scientific Steering Committee:

Barry Goodison (Chair)

Qin Dahe (Vice-Chair)

Bashir Ahmad

Cheng Guodong

Gombo Davaa

Irina Tomashevskaya

Ramesh P. Singh

Roger Braithwaite

Testuo Ohata

Victoria Lytle

Vladimir Aizen

Vladimir Ryabinin

Vladimir M. Kotlyakov

 

Local Organizing Committee:

Qin Dahe (Chair)

Ren Jiawen

Ding Yongjian

Yao Tandong

Bian Lingen

Zhang Shuyu

Tordis Villinger

Chen Zhenlin

Xiao Cunde

Xie Aihong


October 22, 2007 (Monday)

15:00 - 18:00 RegistrationPoster viewing.

 

October 23, 2007 (Tuesday)

08:30 - 09:00 Entrance and Continuous Registration

09:00 - 09:30 Opening Speech - Qin Dahe

Ø      Introducing the invited guests and the symposium preparation by Qin Dahe (Chair, Local Organizing Committee)

Ø      Welcome speeches by

Feng Jianshen (Feng Jianshen, Vice Governor of Gansu Province)

Wang Tao (Director, CAREERI, CAS)

Fu Bojie (Director, Bureau of Resources and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Barry Goodison (Chair, WCRP/CliC SSG)

09:30 - 10:00 Symposium photograph and Coffee Break

10:00 - 11:30 Plenary Presentations – Barry Goodison

Ø      China CliC (Qin Dahe, China CliC Committee, China)

Ø      Climate and Cryosphere Project and the WMO Global Cryosphere Watch (Barry Goodison, Environment Canada, Canada)

Ø      Asia CliC from WCRP/CliC perspective (Victoria Lytle and Vladimir Ryabinin, CliC project Office, Norway and WCRP Joint Planning Staff, Switzerland)

Ø      Summary of the Asia CliC Workshop and some issues (Testuo Ohata, Institute of Observational Research for Global Change, Japan).

Ø      Outline and progress of MAIRS (Ailikun, International Program Office (IPO), Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study (MAIRS), Institute of Atmospheric Physics(IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

11:30 - 12:30 Poster viewing

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:45 Topic 1 (Glacier distribution/changes) – Roger Braithwaithe

Ø      Recent results of glacier changes in western China monitored by satellite remote sensing (Liu Shiyin, CAREERI, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Ø      The recent 50 years glacier changes in Mongolian Altai Mountains (Hironori Yabuki, IORGC/JAMSTEC, Japan)

Ø      Glaciation change in Central Asia due to climate change (Gleb E. Glazirin, Institute of Hydrometeorological Research, Uzbekistan)

Ø      Glaciers of Tajikistan impacted by global warming (Anvar Homidov, Tajikistan)

14:00 – 15:45 Topic 2 (Frozen ground/Permafrost condition and changes) – Alexander V. Pastukhov

Ø      Permafrost Degradation and Potential Environmental Consequences across the Eurasia (Zhang Tingjun, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)

Ø      Recent abrupt increase in active layer temperature and moisture in central Lena river basin (Yoshihiro Iijima, Institute of Observational Research for Global Change, JAMSTEC, Japan)

Ø      Recent changes of the ground temperature and its influence on the permafrost landscapes of Central Yakutia (Alexander Fedorov, Permafrost Institute SB RAS, Russia)

Ø      The detection of subsidence at permanent frozen area in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (Li Zhen, Institute of Remote Sensing Application, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

15:45 - 16:15  Coffee Break

16:15 – 18:00 Topic 1 (Glacier distribution/changes) – Ren Jiawen

Ø      Melting of Himalayan Glaciers (Samjwal. R. Bajracharya, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal)

Ø      GLIMS – Progress in Mapping the World’s Glaciers (Siri Jodha S. Khalsa, University of Colorado, U.S.A.)

Ø      Climate change in North and South China (Maria K. Gavrilaova, Melnikov Permafrost Institute SB Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

Ø      Glacier and lake variations in the Mapam and Yamzhog Basin (Ye Qinghua, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

16:15 – 18:00 Topic 2 (Frozen ground/Permafrost condition and changes) – Yoshihiro Iijima

Ø      Monitoring the evolution of permafrost on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau (Zhao Lin, CAREERI, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Ø      The role of cryoprocesses in aggregation of the soil profile of automorphic loamy soils (Alexander V. Pastukhov, Institute of Biology Komi SD UD RAS, Russia)

Ø      Recent variations in permafrost temperature over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China (Wu Tonghua, CAREERI, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Ø      The Probabilistic Prediction of the Impacts of Climate Change on Permafrost Stability along Qinghai-Tibet Railway (Yang Chengsong, CAREERI, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

18:00 - 20:30  Icebreaker Reception

 

October 24, 2007 (Wednesday)

2 sessions at the same time in different meeting rooms

08:30 - 10:15 Topic 3 (Snow cover, cold region hydrology and water resources) - Vyacheslav Razuvaev

Ø      Research on “Cryosphere and Water Cycle” at IORGC/JAMSTEC (Testuo Ohata, Institute of Observational Research for Global Change, Japan)

Ø      Studying large-scale snow variations over the Asian territory using joint daily data set on snow depth (Vyacheslav Razuvaev, All-Russian research institute of hydrometeorological information – World Data Center (RIHMI-WDC), Russia)

Ø      Role of Cryosphere in the Water Cycle over Dry Regions of Central Asia (Vladimir Aizen, University of Idaho, U.S.A.)

Ø      Variation of Hydrological Regime with Permafrost Coverage over Lena Basin in Siberia (Ye Baisheng, CAREERI, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

08:30 - 10:15 Topic 4 (Land surface and atmosphere processes in cold region and mountains) – Alexander Georgiadi

Ø      Effect of climate change on discharge of glacierized basins in the Langtang valley, Nepal (Rijan Bhakta Kayastha, Kathmandu University, Nepal)

Ø      Progress on the study of atmosphere-land interaction over heterogeneous landscape of the Tibetan Plateau (Ma Yaoming, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Ø      Physical settings of Mongolian boreal forest (Mamoru Ishikawa, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan)

Ø      Response of Lake Environmental Changes to Climate Fluctuations on the Tibetan Plateau, China (Li Shijie, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China).

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break

10: 45 - 12:30 Topic 3 and Topic 5 – Anvar Homidov

Ø      Hydrological consequences of recent and future climate warming in permafrost regions of Eastern Siberia (Lena river basin) (Alexander Georgiadi, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

Ø      Variability of Tibetan Spring Snow and its Associations with the Hemispheric Extratropical Circulation and East Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall (Zhao Ping, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China).

Ø      Changes in daily climate extremes in the eastern and central Tibetan Plateau during 1961-2005 (Kang Shichang, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Ø      Role of Himalayan and Tibetan Cryosphere on Indian Weather and Climate and Possible Impact of Melting of Glaciers (Dev Raj Sikka, 40 Mausam Vihar, New Delhi, India)

10:45 -12:30 Topic 5 (Large-scale cryosphere-atmosphere interactions) – Bian Lingen

Ø      Changes in Pb and its isotopes related to aerosol dust sources in the central Himalayas as recorded in ice core of Mt. Everest (Sungmin Hong, Korea Polar Research Institute, Korea)

Ø      2000-year atmosphere dust history in the Asian dust source area documented by varve lake sediment from Lake Sugan, NW TibetArid China (Chen Fahu, Lanzhou University, China).

Ø      A 524-year from June to September Precipitation Series Reconstructed from Tree-Ring in the West of Altay (Wei Wenshou, Institute of Desert Meteorology, CMA, China)

Ø      Spatial and temporal variations of stable isotopes in precipitation driven by large scale atmospheric circulation in West China (Tian Lide, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China).

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 16:00 Topic 6 (Predictability and predictions of the cryosphere) – Ramesh P. Singh

Ø      Distinct Modes of Winter Arctic Sea Ice Motion (Wu Bingyi, CAREERI, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Ø        Snow simulation on and under forest canopy using a land-surface model (Takeshi Yamazaki, Tohoku Univ/JAMSTEC, Japan)

Ø      Modelling the sensitivity to climate change of Eurasian glaciers with a gridded glacier‑climate model (Roger J. Braithwaite, University of Manchester, U.K.).

Ø      Atmospheric Modeling on the Tibetan Plateau (Cui Xuefeng, University of Liverpool, U.K.)

Ø        An operational snow remote sensing system and its application in climate model (Yang Hu, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China)

14:00 - 16:00 Topic 7 (Remote sensing of cryosphere and cryospheric database) – Samjwal R. Bajracharya

Ø      Introduction to CoReH2O mission (Shi Jiancheng, ICESS University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A)

Ø      Changes in the Himalayan Snow Cover and Its Characteristics Using Remote Sensing Data (Ramesh P. Singh, Indian Institute of Technology, India)

Ø      Asia Eurasia next generation glacier inventory constructing project using ALOS Image (Hironori Yabuki, IORGC/JAMSTEC, Japan)

Ø      Technologies of remote sensing in ecological and geographical studies of nature protected areas and nival-glacial processes in mountains (A. A. Tishkov, Institute of Geography, RAS, Russia)

Ø        The variability of the lakes on Tibetan plateau in the past decades (Lu An-xin, CAREERI, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

16:00 - 16:20 Coffee Break

16:20 - 18:00 Topic 7 (Remote sensing of cryosphere and cryospheric database) – Vyacheslav Razuvaev

Ø      World Data Center for Glaciology and Geocryology in Lanzhou: Introduction and Recent Research Work Review (Li Xin, CAREERI, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China).

Ø      Hydrological simulation in high altitude, data sparse Upper Indus Basin using remote sensing data (Bashir Ahmad, Water Resources Research Institute, NARC, Islamabad, Pakistan)

Ø      Radiation behaviour simulation of freezing soil at microwave bands (Zhang Lixin, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Beijing Normal University / Institute of Remote Sensing Application)

Ø      Data assimilation and the use of satellite data (Lu Qifeng, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China)

16:20 - 18:00 Topic 8 (Strategies for integrating and coordinating future cryospheric research) – Yao Tandong

Ø      Northern hemisphere snow extent trend analysis from Microwave and optical satellite data (Richard Armstrong, National Snow and Ice Data Center and CIRES, University of Colorado, USA)

Ø      Climatic changes in past 2000 years recorded in cryosphere (Yao Tandong, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Ø      An introduction of the ongoing projects on cryosphere researches in China (Ding Yongjian, CAREERI, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Ø      Comparison and integration analysis for ice core and other proxies in Tibet and northwest China (Lin Xiang, Chinese Academy of Meteorology, China)

18:00 - 21:00 Banquet (Wednesday Evening) (USD$30 per person)

Ø      Welcome speeches by

Qin Dahe (Chair, Local Organizing Committee)

Feng Jianshen (Feng Jianshen, Vice Governor of Gansu Province)

Wang Tao (Director, CAREERI, CAS)

Fu Bojie (Director, Bureau of Resources and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Barry Goodison (Chair, WCRP/CliC SSG)

 

October 25, 2007 (Thursday)

08:30 - 12:00 Organization of Split session, outcomes discussion items.

Status: The discussion in every split group should involve research gaps, observation sites, data, cooperation, etc.

3 sessions at the same time in different meeting rooms

08:30 – 10:00 Split Sessions 1 - Split group discussion

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