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ITS2.11/GM1.3 | Climate impacts in mountain regions: Exploring connections across the physical sciences
EDI
Climate impacts in mountain regions: Exploring connections across the physical sciences
Convener: Rebekah HarriesECSECS | Co-conveners: Elizabeth OrrECSECS, german aguilar, Jose Araos, Sebastián ViveroECSECS
Mountain environments are dynamic systems shaped by interconnected physical, biological, and chemical processes. Recent changes in climate, including elevation-dependent warming, shifting precipitation patterns, retreating glaciers, degrading permafrost and intensifying storms are reshaping these critical landscapes. These changes have a direct impact on ~35% of the global population, who live and work within or downstream of these regions. To address this complex, global challenge, this session aims to explore the diverse problems and approaches to monitoring, modelling, and predicting environmental change. It is essential to draw upon perspectives across the physical sciences to reduce uncertainties around future compounding hazard and risk. We welcome contributions focused on mountain system dynamics through, for example, remote sensing, numerical modelling, laboratory techniques, and field observations. This session is closely related to the objectives of the ‘Sediment Cascades and Climate Change (1)’ initiative and encourages an interdisciplinary dialogue between and beyond the fields of climatology, hydrology, sedimentology, and geomorphology.
(1) https://sedimentcascades.webspace.durham.ac.uk/