Primary Convener:
David Rounce, Carnegie Mellon University

Convener:
Enrico Zorzetto, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Summer Rupper, University of Utah

Early Career Convener:
Enrico Zorzetto, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Chair:
David Rounce, Carnegie Mellon University
Enrico Zorzetto, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Summer Rupper, University of Utah

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.

Index Terms
0720 Glaciers
0736 Snow
0744 Rivers
1833 Hydroclimatology

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering