2nd
– The state
and fate of Asian Cryosphere –
Program/Agenda
Date: October 22
to 26, 2007
Venue: Ningwozhuang Hotel,
Organized
by:
WCRP/CliC Science Steering Group
Supported
by:
The State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric
Science, CAREERI, CAS
WCRP/CliC
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and
Technology (JAMSTEC),
Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute
(CAREERI), CAS
Institute
of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS
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
Bian Lingen
Zhang Shuyu
Tordis Villinger
Chen Zhenlin
Xiao Cunde
Xie Aihong
October 22, 2007
(Monday)
15:00 - 18:00 Registration，Poster 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
Wang Tao (Director,
CAREERI, CAS)
Fu Bojie (Director, Bureau of Resources and Environment,
Barry Goodison
(Chair, WCRP/CliC SSG)
09:30 - 10:00 Symposium
photograph and Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:30 Plenary
Presentations – Barry Goodison
Ø
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Climate
and Cryosphere Project and the WMO Global Cryosphere Watch
(Barry Goodison, Environment
Ø
Asia
CliC from WCRP/CliC perspective (Victoria Lytle and Vladimir Ryabinin,
CliC project
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Summary
of the Asia CliC Workshop and some issues (Testuo Ohata,
Ø
Outline
and progress of MAIRS (Ailikun, International Program Office
(IPO), Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study (MAIRS), Institute of Atmospheric
Physics(IAP),
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
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The
recent 50 years glacier changes in Mongolian Altai Mountains (Hironori
Yabuki, IORGC/JAMSTEC,
Ø
Glaciation
change in Central Asia due to climate change (Gleb E.
Glazirin,
Ø
Glaciers
of
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
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,
Ø
The
detection of subsidence at permanent frozen area in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (Li
Zhen,
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),
Ø
GLIMS
– Progress in Mapping the World’s Glaciers (Siri Jodha S.
Khalsa,
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Climate
change in North and South China (Maria K. Gavrilaova, Melnikov
Permafrost Institute SB Russian Academy of Sciences,
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Glacier
and lake variations in the Mapam and
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,
Ø
The
role of cryoprocesses in aggregation of the soil profile of automorphic loamy
soils (Alexander V. Pastukhov,
Ø
Recent
variations in permafrost temperature over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau,
Ø
The
Probabilistic Prediction of the Impacts of Climate Change on Permafrost
Stability along Qinghai-Tibet Railway (Yang Chengsong,
CAREERI, Chinese
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
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Research
on “Cryosphere and Water Cycle” at IORGC/JAMSTEC (Testuo Ohata,
Institute of Observational Research for Global
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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 –
Ø
Role
of Cryosphere in the Water Cycle over Dry Regions of Central Asia (Vladimir
Aizen,
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Variation
of Hydrological Regime with Permafrost Coverage over
08:30 - 10:15 Topic
4 (Land surface and atmosphere processes in cold region and mountains) – Alexander
Georgiadi
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Effect
of climate change on discharge of glacierized basins in the Langtang valley,
Ø
Progress
on the study of atmosphere-land interaction over heterogeneous landscape of the
Tibetan Plateau (Ma Yaoming,
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Physical
settings of Mongolian boreal forest (Mamoru
Ishikawa, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science,
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Response
of Lake Environmental Changes to Climate Fluctuations on the Tibetan
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee
Break
10: 45 - 12:30 Topic
3 and Topic 5 – Anvar Homidov
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Hydrological
consequences of recent and future climate warming in permafrost regions of
Eastern Siberia (Lena river basin) (Alexander Georgiadi,
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Variability
of Tibetan Spring Snow and its Associations with the Hemispheric Extratropical
Circulation and East Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall (Zhao Ping,
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Changes
in daily climate extremes in the eastern and central Tibetan Plateau during
1961-2005 (Kang Shichang,
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Role
of Himalayan and Tibetan Cryosphere on Indian Weather and Climate and Possible
Impact of Melting of Glaciers (Dev Raj Sikka, 40 Mausam Vihar,
10:45 -12:30 Topic
5 (Large-scale cryosphere-atmosphere interactions) – Bian Lingen
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Changes
in Pb and its isotopes related to aerosol dust sources in the central Himalayas
as recorded in ice core of
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2000-year
atmosphere dust history in the Asian dust source area documented by varve lake
sediment from Lake Sugan, NW Tibet，Arid
China (Chen Fahu, Lanzhou University, China).
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A
524-year from June to September Precipitation Series Reconstructed from
Tree-Ring in the West of Altay (Wei Wenshou,
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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
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Distinct
Modes of
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Snow
simulation on and under forest canopy using a land-surface model (Takeshi
Yamazaki, Tohoku Univ/JAMSTEC,
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Modelling
the sensitivity to climate change of Eurasian glaciers with a gridded glacier‑climate
model (Roger J. Braithwaite,
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Atmospheric
Modeling on the Tibetan Plateau (Cui Xuefeng,
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An
operational snow remote sensing system and its application in climate model (Yang
Hu,
14:00 - 16:00 Topic
7 (Remote sensing of cryosphere and cryospheric database) – Samjwal R. Bajracharya
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Introduction
to CoReH2O mission (Shi Jiancheng, ICESS University of
California,
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Changes
in the Himalayan Snow Cover and Its Characteristics Using Remote Sensing Data (Ramesh
P. Singh, Indian Institute of
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Asia
Eurasia next generation glacier inventory constructing project using ALOS Image
(Hironori Yabuki, IORGC/JAMSTEC,
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Technologies
of remote sensing in ecological and geographical studies of nature protected
areas and nival-glacial processes in mountains (A. A. Tishkov,
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The
variability of the lakes on Tibetan plateau in the past decades (Lu
An-xin, CAREERI,
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee
Break
16:20 - 18:00 Topic
7 (Remote sensing of cryosphere and cryospheric database) – Vyacheslav Razuvaev
Ø
Ø
Hydrological
simulation in high altitude, data sparse
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Radiation
behaviour simulation of freezing soil at microwave bands
(Zhang Lixin, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science,
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Data
assimilation and the use of satellite data (Lu Qifeng,
16:20 - 18:00 Topic
8 (Strategies for integrating and coordinating future cryospheric research) – Yao
Tandong
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Northern
hemisphere snow extent trend analysis from Microwave and optical satellite data (Richard
Armstrong, National Snow and
Ø Climatic changes in past 2000 years
recorded in cryosphere (Yao Tandong,
Ø An introduction of the ongoing projects
on cryosphere researches in
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Comparison
and integration analysis for ice core and other proxies in
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
Wang Tao (Director,
CAREERI, CAS)
Fu Bojie (Director, Bureau of Resources and Environment,
Barry Goodison
(Chair, WCRP/CliC SSG)
October 25, 2007
(Thursday)
08:30 - 12:00 Organization
of
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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Snow cover (Chaired by Richard Armstrong
and Shi Jiancheng)
Ø Ecology (Chaired by Mamoru Ishikawa and Wang Genxu)
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Cryopsheric Data (Chaired by Li Xin and Zhang
Tingjun)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Split Sessions 2 - Split group
discussion
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Glaciers (Chaired by Liu Shiyin and
Vladimir Aizen)
Ø Frozen ground/Permafrost (Chaired by Zhao Lin and Alexander
V. Pastukhov)
Ø Hydrology (Chaired by Tetsuo Ohata and Ding Yongjian)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:30 Poster
introduction (Topic 1 to 8) – Rijan Bhakta Kayastha
The first author is mentioned.
Each person will be allowed one slide and 3 minutes
to present the main results from their poster.
15:30 – 16:00 Poster
viewing
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 Plenary Session - Barry Goodison and
Ø Result of the split group discussions (each group 10
minitues)
Ø Key issues in WCRP (Vivtoria Lytle)
Ø Overall problem (Barry Goodison)
Ø Symposium announcement and future plans (Qin Dahe,
Testuo Ohata)
Ø Closing speech (Qin Dahe)
October 26, 2007
(Friday)
09:00
– 19:00 Excursion to Liujiaxia
reservoir, which is located at the canyon of Loess Plateau, and regarded as
Bright Pearl in the plateau.