7. Future mountains with low-to-no snow and ice

The mountain cryosphere provides vast freshwater reservoirs critical to ecosystems and downstream communities. Yet they are harbingers of a changing climate through their sensitivity to warming.  A low-to-no snow (L2NS) future, or widespread, persistent, and deleterious snow, ice, and permafrost loss, is possible given increasing temperatures and alterations in precipitation magnitude and phase.  L2NS will impose a series of cascading hydrologic changes to the water-energy balance, impacting vegetation processes, surface and subsurface water storage, streamflow, and ultimately water-energy resources and ecosystem function. Strategies for adaptation of livelihoods, power generation, and ecosystem function post-L2NS are rarely exchanged across sectors, research communities, and mountain ranges. This session aims to bring together a diverse set of researchers and stakeholders to exchange successes and failures from regions where L2NS is or will be a future reality and discuss how to overcome uncertainties in estimating the warming level and time horizon of L2NS emergence.

Implementing the Sendai Framework in Mountains

About Karen Sudmeier-RieuxSenior Researcher @ TH Koeln- Cologne University of Applied SciencesKeynote Details Full TitleImplementing the Sendai Framework in Mountains:  a slippery slope in need of roots in Science Place of…

ID99: Open Poster Session

Details Full TitleOpen Poster Session ScheduledWednesday, 2022-09-14 17:45-18:30 ConvenerStefan Mayr, President of IMC2022 Co-ConvenersIrmgard Juen, Wolfgang Gurgiser Assigned to Synthesis Workshop– KeywordsMountain Research Description This session invites and collects contributions…

ID84: Recreation and alpine wildlife

Details Full TitleRecreation and alpine wildlife: insights, knowledge gaps and ways on how to minimize negative impacts ScheduledWednesday, 2022-09-14 18:30-20:00 ConvenerAdrian Hochreutener Co-ConvenersMartin Wyttenbach and Reto Rupf Assigned to Synthesis…

Enhanced environmental changes in mountain regions

About Nick Pepin is a climate scientist at the School of the Environment, Geography & Geosciences at the University of Portsmouth. His research interests are focusing on climatic changes in…

ID82: High-resolution atmospheric modeling

Details Full TitleHigh-resolution modeling of atmospheric processes over mountainous terrain Scheduled Monday, 2022-09-12 Session Part I:  13:30 - 15:00 Session Part II: 16:00 - 17:30 Poster Session: 17:45 - 18:30…

Nonlinear Processes Accelerating Glacier Response to climate change

About Shawn Marshall is a Professor at the University of Calgary Department of Geography. Marshall’s research interests include glacier dynamics, cryosphere-climate processes, paleoclimatology, and mountain meteorology. Shawn MarshallProfessor of Geography…